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Aug 30 - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening higher on Wednesday, with futures up 0.25%.
* DIRECT LINE: British motor and home insurer Direct Line Insurance Group named Adam Winslow, a senior executive at Aviva, as its new CEO.
* SUPERDRY: Britain's Financial Conduct Authority has
temporarily suspended
the listing of Superdry Plc's ordinary shares of 5 pence each, the fashion retailer said on Wednesday.
* AIR TRAFFIC: The disruption to flights into and out of Britain caused by a technical failure on Monday will
not happen again
after changes were made to the system, the head of the country's air traffic control group NATS said.
* PRUDENTIAL: Prudential Plc posted a 3.6% rise in first-half operating profit.
* UNILEVER: A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Unilever that claimed the company misled U.S. investors by not immediately disclosing a decision by its Ben & Jerry's unit to stop selling ice cream in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
* HOME SALES: The number of house purchases in Britain this year is on course to drop by 21% to its lowest since 2012, property website Zoopla forecast.
* GOLD: Gold prices hovered near three-week highs, as investors pared bets of further U.S. interest rate hikes in response to soft economic readings, with more data eyed this week to analyse the outlook.
* OIL: Oil prices extended gains after industry data showed a large draw in crude inventories in the U.S., the world's biggest fuel consumer, and as concerns about a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico kept investors on edge.
* For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please click on:
TODAY'S UK PAPERS
> Financial Times
> Other business headlines (Reporting by Hani Kollathodi and Zainab Saifee in Bengaluru)