UK Stocks-Factors to watch on Aug 16
Aug 16 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 20
points at 7,518 on Thursday, according to financial bookmakers.
* RANK GROUP: British bingo and casino operator Rank Group's
full-year pre-tax profit fell more than 40 percent, its Hong Kong-listed owner
Guoco Group Ltd said in a statement on Thursday.
* SPORTS DIRECT: Philip Day, owner of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, is
in discussions with landlords to take over several House of Fraser stores in a
move that could anger the chain's new owner, Sports Direct International Plc
, The Times reported on Thursday. http://bit.ly/2MNd9tv
* ANGLO AMERICAN: Miner Anglo American Plc expects to obtain
licenses to expand its Minas-Rio multibillion-dollar iron ore mine in Brazil by
June next year, the company's CEO for Brazil Ruben Fernandes told Reuters on
Wednesday.
* BHP: Brazil's Samarco Mineração SA, owned by Vale SA and BHP
Billiton Ltd, expects to pay up to 2 billion reais ($512.5 million) this
year to 19,000 families affected by the 2015 mining disaster in the state of
Minas Gerais, the foundation created to pay the victims said on Wednesday.
* GLENCORE: QHG Oil Ventures, a joint venture between Qatar Investment
Authority and Glencore GLEN.L, has valued a 14.2 percent stake in Rosneft, which
it is selling, at 7.4 billion euros ($8.4 billion), a QHG financial statement
showed on Wednesday.
* TULLOW OIL: Oil production from Tullow Oil's offshore Tweneboa,
Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) field in Ghana is expected to hit full output capacity
of 80,000 barrels a day by 2020, a local manager said on Wednesday.
* EX-DIVS: Anglo American, Ashtead Group, Aviva,
Evraz, HSBC, Legal & General, Lloyds Banking Group
, Pearson, Reckitt Benckiser, Schroders, Segro
, Standard Life Aberdeen will trade without entitlement to their
latest dividend pay-out on Thursday, trimming 17.13 points off the FTSE 100
according to Reuters calculations.
* The UK blue chip index closed down 1.7 percent at 7,497.87 points on
Wednesday, as emerging markets stress and a sharp selloff in commodities drove
down stocks across Europe, with investors running scared after trade spat
deepened between Turkey and the United States.
* For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please click on: cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?pageId=livemarkets
* UK CORPORATE DIARY:
Marshalls PLC Half Year 2018
Kingfisher PLC Q2 2018 Trading Statement
Kaz Minerals PLC Half Year 2018
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(Reporting by Justin George Varghese)
