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March 8 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE futures were up 0.08 percentahead of the cash market open on Thursday.

* G4S: The world's largest security group G4S said ?its 2017 revenueand earnings rose 3.2 percent and 5.7 percent respectively and predicted apositive outlook for its business backed by growing technology-relatedincome.

* DOMINO'S: Domino's Pizza Group Plc, Britain's biggestpizza-delivery firm, on Thursday reported a 10.2 percent rise in full-yearpretax profit on strength in domestic and other European markets.

* AVIVA: Insurer Aviva posted a 2 percent rise in 2017 operatingprofit to 3.1 billion pounds ($4.31 billion) on Thursday, boosted by strongperformance in its UK division, and said it would give 500 million pounds backto shareholders.

* LLOYDS: Lloyds Banking Group on Thursday launched a planned 1billion pounds ($1.39 billion) share buyback programme, after selectinginvestment bank UBS to execute the repurchases on itsbehalf.

* COUNTRYWIDE: Countrywide Plc, Britain's largest estate agency, onThursday reported a 22.5 percent drop in full-year core earnings, hurt by poorperformance in its main sales and lettings business.

* UK-RECRUITERS: British recruiters reported a slowdown in their clients'demand for staff during February, though pay rates and appetite for new workerscontinue to grow quickly.

* OIL: Oil prices steadied on Thursday, supported by healthy demand, afterfalling the previous day on the back of record U.S. crude production and risinginventories.

* GOLD: Gold prices held steady on Thursday as investors awaited moredetails on U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed steel and aluminium tariffs,the outcome of the European Central Bank's policy meeting, and U.S. jobs data.

* EX-DIVS: BHP Billiton, Evraz, Land Securities,Persimmon, Shire, Standard Chartered will tradewithout entitlement to their latest dividend pay-out on Thursday, trimming 8.31points off the FTSE 100 according to Reuters calculations.

* The UK blue chip index closed up 0.16 percent at 7,157.84 points onWednesday, as a rally in engine maker Rolls Royce and gains among industrialsmore than offset weakness among commodity stocks.

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