Feb 10 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening up 23 points at 7,252 on Friday, according to financial bookmakers.
* The UK blue chip index was up 0.6 percent at 7,229.50 points at the market close, underperforming the pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX index on Thursday, as insurance and banking stocks picked up pace, while miners weighed. LLOYDS: Lloyds Banking Group LLOY.L is the latest bank to join a new British cyber security group for banks called the Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA), sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. BHP: Workers at BHP Billiton's BHP.AX , BLT.L Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world's largest, walked off the job on Thursday in a strike that threatens to disrupt the international supply of the widely used metal. RBS: Royal Bank of Scotland RBS.L has rejected calls to beef up a 400 million pound ($502 million) scheme to reimburse customers who say they were mistreated by the bank's business restructuring division. BAE: A group of companies including subsidiaries of BAE Systems BAES.L , Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE:NOC) NOC.N , Science Applications International Corp SAIC.N , Teledyne Technologies Inc TDY.N and KBR Inc KBR.N will share in a $3.04 billion missile defense contract, the Pentagon said on Thursday. For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please click on: cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?pageId=livemarkets
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