Sept 1 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening 15
points lower at 5,949 on Tuesday, according to financial bookmakers.
* ASTRAZENECA: AstraZeneca Plc AZN.L said on Monday it has begun enrolling
adults for a U.S.-funded, 30,000-subject late-stage study of its high profile
COVID-19 vaccine candidate. * COPPER: London copper prices hit their highest in more than two years
after data showed top consumer China saw a strong expansion in manufacturing
activity in August. MET/L
* GOLD: Gold prices rose to their highest level in nearly two weeks, as the
dollar slipped to multi-year lows on bets that U.S. interest rates would stay
lower for a longer period after the Federal Reserve's new policy framework.
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* OIL: Oil prices recovered, erasing overnight losses, as investors moved
into risk assets and away from the safe-haven U.S. dollar which tumbled to
multi-year lows. O/R
* The UK blue-chip index .FTSE closed its second week lower on Friday as
traders headed into the long weekend worried about a choppy post-pandemic
economic rebound, while Greggs slipped on a report a COVID-19 outbreak had
forced it to close its depot in Leeds. .L
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