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By Tricia Wright
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) Britain top shares fell on Monday as Canada Goose online new sanctions Canada Goose Outlet against Russia took their toll on energy stocks, while miners were knocked canada goose uk shop by weak canada goose clearance sale economic data out of top metals consumer China. monetary canada goose uk outlet policy, were signs of deal activity.
Dutch brewer Heineken said on Sunday it buy canada goose jacket cheap was approached by larger rival SABMiller about a canada goose factory sale potential takeover, but that its controlling shareholder intended buy canada goose jacket to keep the company independent.
SABMiller jumped 5.1 percent, topping the FTSE 100 leader board, while peer Diageo was cheap Canada Goose the second top riser, 1.9 canada goose coats on sale percent firmer, as traders bet on sector wide merger acquisition activity.
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In the midcaps, mainframe computer specialist Micro Focus International jumped almost 11 percent after https://www.cagooseclearance.com agreeing an all share merger with rival The Attachmate Group Inc in a deal valuing the groups combined capital and debt at $2.35 billion.
Tour Canada Goose sale operator TUI Travel and majority owner TUI AG, meanwhile, agreed the terms of a canada goose coats merger creating the world largest leisure and tourism group with a combined value of 6.5 billion euros. canada goose store TUI Travel rose 1.9 percent.
But the broader FTSE 100 was down 4.51 points, or 0.1 percent, at 6,802.45 points by 0819 GMT. Energy stocks were the biggest fallers by some margin, down 0.7 percent.
On Friday, the United States imposed sanctions on Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, canada goose clearance Lukoil, Surgutneftegas and Rosneft, banning Western firms from supporting their activities in exploration or production from deep water, Arctic offshore or shale projects. giant Exxon Mobil in the uk canada goose outlet Russian Arctic that started in August as part of a joint venture with the Kremlin oil champion Rosneft.
Now canada goose this and dozens canadian goose jacket of other projects agreed with Royal Dutch Shell among others will have to be put on hold. BP, which owns 20 percent of Rosneft, Russia largest oil producer, fell 1.1 percent, while Shell dropped 0.4 Canada Goose Parka percent.
A batch of weak data out of China, which raised the spectre of a sharp slowdown there, pressured the miners, off 0.2 percent. Data out on Saturday showed cheap Canada Goose China factory output grew at the weakest pace in nearly six canada goose black friday sale years Canada Goose Jackets in August, while growth in other key sectors also cooled.
The market was on tenterhooks just days out from the Sept. 18 referendum on independence for Scotland, with polls showing the and camps running close. Investors were reluctant to place big bets, for now.
much upside in the FTSE until after the Scottish referendum, uk canada goose so canada goose uk black friday I would stay on the sidelines, Lex van Dam, a hedge fund manager at Hampstead Capital, said. Federal Reserve policy meeting later this week also cheap canada goose uk made investors cautious. rate hike in more than eight years. (Reporting by Tricia Wright; Editing by Janet Lawrence).
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