UK Stocks-Factors to watch on July 27

July 27 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening 15
points higher at 6,139 on Monday, according to financial bookmakers.
* EI GROUP: Slug and Lettuce pub owner Stonegate sold 1.2 billion pounds of
bonds on Friday to finance its acquisition of rival Ei Group EIGE.L , the
company said on Friday.
* INDIVIOR: Indivior Plc INDV.L has agreed to pay $600 million and have a
subsidiary plead guilty to a felony charge to resolve U.S. allegations that it
engaged in an illegal scheme to boost prescriptions of its opioid addiction
treatment Suboxone. * HSBC: HSBC HSBA.L on Saturday denied Chinese media reports that it had
"framed" Huawei Technologies and played a role in the arrest of the chief
financial officer of the world's biggest telecoms equipment maker. * ANTOFAGASTA: The union of workers at Antofagasta 's ANTO.L Zaldivar
copper mine in northern Chile told Reuters it had reached a contract deal with
the Chilean-based miner, averting the risk of a walk-off. * EASYJET/BRITISH AIRWAYS: EasyJet EZJ.L and British Airways ICAG.L told
customers on Saturday they did not plan to cancel flights over the coming days,
after Britain's government advised against all non-essential travel to mainland
Spain due to COVID-19. * 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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