UK Stocks-Factors to watch on April 28

Travis Perkins

28/04/2026 06:10

April 28 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening higher on Tuesday, with futures FFIc1 up 0.07%.

* BP: BP’s BP.L oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana, experienced a brief power outage on Sunday causing one of its processing units to be shut down, the local fire chief said.

*  INEFFABLE INTELLIGENCE: UK-based Ineffable Intelligence, founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed funding round led by U.S. venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, with backing from the British government.

* BUDGET: British finance minister Rachel Reeves should explicitly aim to bring public debt below its current level within the next three years, rather than simply halt its current rise, a committee of Britain's upper house of parliament said on Tuesday.

* SHOP PRICES: Easter promotions on chocolate eggs, home renovation materials and clothing helped lower shop price inflation in April, a survey showed.

* MOTOR FINANCE: A British consumer group on Monday said it had filed a legal challenge to a 9.1 billion-pound ($12.32 billion) redress scheme to compensate motorists for mis-sold motor finance, a move Britain's market regulator described as disappointing.

* INFLATION: Britons' short-term and long-term inflation expectations fell in April, in a surprise reading from a monthly survey by YouGov for U.S. bank Citi.

* COMMODITIES: Oil prices rose 1% on Tuesday, while gold prices eased and, aluminium prices slid.

* FTSE: London's FTSE 100 declined on Monday, dragged by losses in the energy and consumer sectors.

* UK CORPORATE DIARY:

BP
BP.L
Q1 results
Anglo American
AAL.L
Q1 production report
Barclays
BARC.L
Q1 results
Taylor Wimpey
TW.L
Trading update
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
CCEPC.L
Q1 Trading Statement
Howden Joinery
HFD.L
Trading update
Tullow Oil
TLW.L
FY results
Travis Perkins
TPK.L
Q1 Trading Statement
Card Factory
CARDC.L
Prelim FY results

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(Compiled by Roshni Srivastava in Bengaluru)

((roshni.srivastava@thomsonreuters.com))