UK Stocks-Factors to watch on Jan 20

Jan 20 - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening lower on Monday, with futures FFIc1 down 0.15%.

* BARCLAYS: British investment bank Barclays BARC.L 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 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 SAN.MC 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)

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