UK Stocks-Factors to watch on September 24
UK Stocks-Factors to watch on September 24 Sept 24 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening flat on Thursday, with futures FFIc1 down 0.3%.
* SHELL: Shell SHEL.L and Trinidad and Tobago's National Gas Company have agreed terms for natural gas supplies from Shell's Aphrodite field, ending a pricing dispute that had delayed the project, NGC Chairman Gerald Ramdeen told Reuters.
* HSBC: HSBC HSBA.L moved a board meeting scheduled to take place in Dubai this month to London amid concerns over safety, as the war in Iran continues to disrupt executive travel to the region, the Financial Times reported.
* ANTOFAGASTA: Two unions representing workers at Antofagasta Minerals' ANTO.L Centinela copper mine in Chile called on workers to hold a strike vote, saying negotiations with the firm had reached a "dead end".
* THAMES WATER: Thames Water's creditors are preparing a revised rescue deal that would include deeper debt writedowns and additional equity investment to prevent the government from taking temporary control of the troubled utility, Bloomberg News reported.
* EX-DIVS: Standard Life SDLF.L will trade without entitlement to its latest dividend pay-outs on Thursday.
* COMMODITIES: Oil prices retreated on Thursday after climbing 4% in the previous session, gold prices were muted, and copper floated lower.
* FTSE: London's FTSE 100 was muted on Wednesday as oil prices rebounded to over $100 a barrel, reviving inflation worries and pushing up global bond yields.
* UK CORPORATE DIARY:
Vistry Group | VTYV.L | HY results |
Capricorn Energy | CNE.L | HY results |
Halma | HLMA.L | HY results |
Raspberry Pi | RPI.L | HY results |
DFS Furniture | DFSD.L | FY results |
Mitchells & Butlers | MAB.L | FY trading |
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(Compiled by in Roshni Srivastava Bengaluru)