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UK Stocks-Factors to watch on March 23
Mar 23, 2026 1:27 AM

March 23 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 index is

seen opening down on Monday, with futures down 1.50%.

* CALEDONIA MINING: Zimbabwe-focused Caledonia Mining

reported a near tripling of its 2025 full-year profit after tax,

driven by higher gold prices and robust sales volumes.

* TRUSTPILOT ( TRTPF ): Italy's Competition Authority fined Trustpilot ( TRTPF )

and its units 4 million euros ($4.61 million) for

failing to adequately verify the authenticity of reviews on its

platform and for misleading consumers about how its services

work.

* ANGLO AMERICAN: Anglo American said it would delist

from the SIX Swiss Exchange on June 26, ahead of the completion

of its $53 billion merger with Teck Resources ( TECK ).

* IAG: British Airways-owner IAG is likely to abandon

its interest in pursuing an offer for Portugal's flag carrier

TAP, Bloomberg News reported.

* SPIRE HEALTHCARE: Spire Healthcare said late on Friday

that buyout talks with private equity firms Bridgepoint

and Triton have ended, but it was still in discussions with

other parties for a potential sale.

* BP: The Trump administration has lent 45.2 million barrels of

crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to oil companies,

including BP Products North America, in an attempt to control

prices that have spiked to four-year highs due to the war on

Iran.

* ECONOMY: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to chair

an emergency meeting on the economic fallout from the war in

Iran on Monday.

* OIL: Oil prices swung between gains and losses as investors

weighed rising U.S. and Iranian threats over energy facilities.

* GOLD: Gold slid more than 5%, reaching its weakest level of

2026 after logging its worst week in about 43 years.

* METALS: Copper slid to over three-month lows, with a fresh

escalation in the Middle East war.

* For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please

click on:

TODAY'S UK PAPERS

> Financial Times

> Other business headlines

(Compiled by Roshni Srivastava in Bengaluru)

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