Feb 17 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening 16
points higher on Monday, according to financial bookmakers.
* MONZO: Fast-growing British digital bank Monzo plans to hire up to 500
people and forecasts it will get 5.5 million users this year, as it prepares to
have another crack at charging some customers to turn a profit. * RETAILERS: British consumers face higher prices and reduced availability
of goods if the government fails to agree pragmatic solutions with the European
Union on regulatory checks at ports in any post-Brexit deal, the retail
industry's lobby group warned. * ITV: British broadcaster ITV ITV.L said its popular reality show "Love
Island" would return on Monday after it was taken off air following the death of
former presenter Caroline Flack. * INTERTEK: British product quality testing firm Intertek Group ITRK.L
said on Sunday it had temporarily shut its Hong Kong Garment Centre in Kowloon
from Feb. 11 for two weeks after an employee contracted the new coronavirus.
* RAIL PROJECT: The British government has not talked to China about helping
build High Speed 2, the major rail project given the green light last week
despite being billions of pounds over budget, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps
said on Sunday. * CARNIVAL CORP: More tests are needed to confirm that an American passenger
from a cruise ship docked in Cambodia, operated by Carnival Corp CCL.N CCL.L
unit Holland America Inc, has the new coronavirus after she tested positive in
Malaysia, the MS Westerdam's operator said on Sunday. * SHELL: A contractor working at Shell's RDSa.L Pulau Bukom manufacturing
site in Singapore has contracted the new coronavirus, the company said on
Friday, as the city-state reported its biggest jump in new cases so far.
* IAG: British Airways said on Sunday its Chief Operating Officer Klaus
Goersch and its Director of People Angela Williams were leaving the company.
* JUPITER: Britain's Jupiter Fund Management JUP.L confirmed on Saturday
that it is in advanced talks to buy asset manager Merian Global Investors from
private equity firm TA Associates. * WILLIAM HILL : British bookmaker William Hill WMH.L will appoint Adrian
Marsh, Chief Financial Officer of cardboard maker DS Smith SMDS.L , as its new
financial head, Sky News' city editor said in a tweet on Sunday. * BP: Mexico's oil regulator fired 18 employees on Friday that formed part
of a unit responsible for supervising some 100 exploration and production
contracts won at auction by private companies including U.S.-based Exxon Mobil
Corp XOM.N and Britain's BP BP.L . * GOLD: Gold prices held near a two-week high scaled in the previous session
as uncertainty prevailed over the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the
global economy. * OIL: Oil prices edged lower as investors brace for economic data in Asia
due this week that should give a reading on how China's coronavirus epidemic has
affected oil demand. * UK blue-chip shares fell for a second day on Friday after AstraZeneca and
RBS reported underwhelming results, while investors remained unsettled because
of concerns over the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the global economy.
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