UK Stocks-Factors to watch on March 2

By Reuters / January 01, 1970 / in.investing.com / Article Link

March 2 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening 60points lower at 7,115 on Friday, according to financial bookmakers.

* ANTOFAGASTA: The main union of Chile's Los Pelambres copper mine, a unitof the local group Antofagasta ANTO.L , will vote next week on a new contractits members have not yet received and which could lead to a strike if theyrefuse, a union leader told Reuters on Thursday. GKN: British engineering group GKN GKN.L , which has set out plans tobreak itself up as it battles a 7 billion-pound hostile bid from MelroseIndustries MRON.L , is in talks about potentially selling its automotivebusiness to U.S. autoparts maker Dana DAN.N , the Financial Times reported,citing sources. LAND SECURITIES: Land Securities LAND.L , Britain's largest listedcommercial property developer, is set to announce that its Chairman AlisonCarnwath plans to step down and that the search for her successor is underway,Sky News reported. BREXIT: British Prime Minister Theresa May will set out her vision onFriday for a Brexit deal deeper and wider than any "free trade agreementanywhere in the world", telling the European Union it is in their "sharedinterest". The UK blue chip index closed 0.8 percent lower at 7,175.6 points onThursday, after advertising giant WPP WPP.L reported its worst results sincethe financial crisis and a gauge of British factory activity fell to its weakestin eight months. For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please click on: cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?pageId=livemarkets

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