Feb 15 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening 41
points higher at 6,631 on Monday, according to financial bookmakers.
* ROLLS ROYCE: Rolls-Royce Holdings RR.L will name former Deloitte partner
Panos Kakoullis as its next chief financial officer, with the appointment to be
announced as early as Monday, Sky News reported on Sunday. * COCA-COLA EUROPEAN PARTNERS: Coca-Cola Amatil CCL.AX said that Coca-Cola
Co's European bottler raised its takeover offer by around 6% to A$9.93 billion
as global trading conditions improve. * RIO TINTO: A federal judge on Friday said he would not stop the U.S.
Forest Service from transferring government-owned land in Arizona to Rio Tinto
RIO.L RIO.AX for its Resolution Copper project, denying a request from
Native Americans who said the land has religious and cultural import.
* ASTRAZENECA: The University of Oxford has launched a study to assess the
safety and immune response of the COVID-19 vaccine it has developed with
AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) AZN.L in children for the first time, it said on Saturday.
* HOUSE PRICES: Asking prices for homes in Britain unexpectedly rose in
January and early February as buyers kept on looking for properties.
* GOLD: Gold eased after U.S. Treasury yields jumped to their highest in
nearly 11 months in the previous session, with platinum scaling a six-year peak
on expectations of a supply shortfall. * OIL: Oil prices soared as fears of heightened tensions in the Middle East
prompted fresh buying. * The UK blue-chip index .FTSE closed 0.9% higher on Friday led by gains
in healthcare stocks as investors remained optimistic of a vaccine-led economic
recovery even as data showed the UK economy shrank by a record 9.9% last year.
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