Jan 20 - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen

opening lower on Monday, with futures down 0.15%.

* BARCLAYS ( JJCTF ): British investment bank Barclays ( JJCTF ) said

on Monday it has appointed former Goldman Sachs banker Paul

Johnson as head of equities for Asia Pacific.

* UK HOME AVERAGE ASKING PRICES: Average asking prices for

newly-listed homes in Britain had their biggest

start-of-the-year increase since 2020, but uncertainty about the

pace of interest rate cuts is hanging over the market, property

website Rightmove ( RTMVF ) said.

* AEGIS ENERGY: Britain's Aegis Energy has secured a 100

million pound ($122 million) investment from private equity firm

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners to build five multi-energy

filling stations for commercial vehicles, the startup said.

* BP: BP, which operates the Shah Deniz gas and condensate

field development project in Azerbaijan, said on Sunday it has

restarted production at the Shah Deniz Alpha gas platform in

Azerbaijan as of late Saturday.

* BANCO SANTANDER: Banco Santander is reviewing its

presence in Britain, a person familiar with the matter said, two

decades after its acquisition of Abbey National made it a major

player on the country's high streets.

* OIL: Oil prices were little changed as expectations of

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump relaxing curbs on Russia's

energy sector in exchange for a deal to end the Ukraine war

offset concern of supply disruption from harsher sanctions.

* METALS: Most base metals declined.

* GOLD: Gold cut early losses.

* FTSE 100: The UK's blue-chip FTSE 100 hit an all-time high

on Friday, supported by a weaker pound after much

softer-than-expected retail sales data boosted expectations of

an interest rate cut next month.

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(Reporting by DhanushVignesh Babu in Bengaluru)