UK Stocks-Factors to watch on June 12 (updated)
12/06/2025 07:49
Adds new items, updates futures June 12 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening lower on Thursday, with futures FFIc1 down 0.41%. * TESCO: Tesco TSCO.L, Britain's biggest food retailer, reported a pick-up in underlying sales growth in its first quarter and won market share from rivals, saying improvements in value, product quality and service had chimed with consumers. * CREST NICHOLSON: UK Housebuilder Crest Nicholson's CRST.L adjusted pre-tax profit more than tripled in the first half of the year, it reported, as rising consumer confidence and declining mortgage rates boosted demand in the domestic housing market. * SEGRO: Warehouse landlord Segro SGRO.L on Thursday named Susanne Schroeter-Crossan as its new chief financial officer. * CARR'S GROUP: The British accounting watchdog imposed a penalty of 1.25 million pounds ($1.7 million) on audit firm KPMG LLP on Thursday as a result of an investigation into the financial audit of UK manufacturing firm Carr’s Group CARRC.L. * ECONOMY: Britain's economic output contracted by a worse-than-expected 0.3% in April, official data showed. * RECKITT: Britain's Reckitt RKT.L is talking exclusively to private equity firm Advent International over a sale of the consumer goods group's Essential Home business, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. * ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS: Associated British Foods ABF.L will hold off deciding the fate of its under threat Vivergo bioethanol plant in Hull, northern England, until June 25. * COMMODITIES: Oil prices eased, gold prices rose, and London copper prices inched up on Thursday. * EX-DIVS: Intermediate Capital Group ICGIN.L, Land Securities Group LAND.L, and JD Sports Fashion JD.L will trade without entitlement to its latest dividend pay-out. * For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please click on: LIVE/ TODAY'S UK PAPERS > Financial Times PRESS/FT > Other business headlines PRESS/GB (Reporting by Nithyashree R B in Bengaluru) ((NithyashreeRB@thomsonreuters.com;))