Feb 26 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening 65
points lower at 6,587 on Friday, according to financial bookmakers.
* YELLOW CAKE: Yellow Cake YCA.L said on Thursday that it intends to raise
at least $110 million to partly fund the purchase of physical uranium under an
agreement with NAK Kazatomprom KZAP.KZ , the world's biggest uranium
miner. * OXFORD UNIVERSITY: Oxford University said on Thursday it was investigating
a digital intrusion after a researcher said he had seen evidence that a
laboratory researching COVID-19 had been hacked. * GOLD: Gold inched higher after hitting a one-week low, but headed for a
second straight weekly and monthly decline as brighter economic outlook and
inflation fears propped up U.S. Treasury yields. * OIL: Oil prices fell as a collapse in bond prices led to gains in the U.S.
dollar and expectations grew that with oil prices back above pre-pandemic
levels, more supply is likely to come back to the market. * The UK blue-chip index .FTSE closed 0.1% lower on Thursday, as losses in
defensive sectors due to higher treasury yields outweighed gains in resource and
most banking stocks. UK CORPORATE DIARY:
Rightmove Plc RMV.L FY results
Jupiter Fund Management Plc JUP.L FY results
* For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please click on:
LIVE/
TODAY'S UK PAPERS
> Financial Times PRESS/FT
> Other business headlines PRESS/GB