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July 27 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening 15
points higher at 6,139 on Monday, according to financial bookmakers, with
futures up 0.1% ahead of cash markets open.
* RYANAIR: Ryanair is not planning to reduce capacity flying to Spain after
the British government's "regrettable" decision to advise against all
non-essential travel to the country's mainland due to COVID-19. * ASTRAZENECA: AstraZeneca AZN.L could pay up to $6 billion to Japan's
Daiichi Sankyo 4568.T to develop and market a type of targeted cancer
treatment in the second multi-billion dollar cancer drug collaboration between
the two companies. * CITY PUB: City Pub Group CPC.L said it traded profitably in its first
three weeks after opening, but revenues were just 63% of the equivalent period
last year. * GOLD: Gold prices jumped to record highs on Monday as an intensifying
U.S.-China row hammered the dollar and cemented expectations that central banks
would continue pumping out stimulus to ease the economic pain from a worsening
coronavirus pandemic. * OIL: Oil prices edged lower on Monday as rising coronavirus cases and
tensions between the United States and China pushed investors toward safe-haven
assets. * The UK blue-chip index .FTSE ended down 1.4% on Friday, as souring
U.S.-China relations weighed and marked weekly losses as concerns over the
coronavirus and uncertainty over a vaccine spurred a selling-out of equities.
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