News: CCL UK Stocks-Factors to watch on Feb. 15

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening 41 points higher at 6,631 on Monday, according to financial bookmakers.

• ROLLS ROYCE: Rolls-Royce Holdings RR.L will name former Deloitte partner Panos Kakoullis as its next chief financial officer, with the appointment to be announced as early as Monday, Sky News reported on Sunday.
• COCA-COLA EUROPEAN PARTNERS: Coca-Cola Amatil (CCL) said that Coca-Cola Co's European bottler raised its takeover offer by around 6% to A$9.93 billion as global trading conditions improve.
• RIO TINTO: A federal judge on Friday said he would not stop the U.S. Forest Service from transferring government-owned land in Arizona to Rio Tinto RIO.L (RIO) for its Resolution Copper project, denying a request from Native Americans who said the land has religious and cultural import.

• ASTRAZENECA: The University of Oxford has launched a study to assess the safety and immune response of the COVID-19 vaccine it has developed with AstraZeneca AZN.L in children for the first time, it said on Saturday.

• HOUSE PRICES: Asking prices for homes in Britain unexpectedly rose in January and early February as buyers kept on looking for properties.

• GOLD: Gold eased after U.S. Treasury yields jumped to their highest in nearly 11 months in the previous session, with platinum scaling a six-year peak on expectations of a supply shortfall.
• OIL: Oil prices soared as fears of heightened tensions in the Middle East prompted fresh buying.
• The UK blue-chip index .FTSE closed 0.9% higher on Friday led by gains in healthcare stocks as investors remained optimistic of a vaccine-led economic recovery even as data showed the UK economy shrank by a record 9.9% last year.

• UK CORPORATE DIARY: City of London Investment Trust Plc CTY.L HY results

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