LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Security-related stocks such asRolls Royce and BAE Systems rose in earlytrading on Monday, outperforming Britain's blue-chip FTSE 100index, after the country planned to boost itsanti-terrorism spending by 30 percent.
Britain also plans to increase the number of stealth fighterjets it can launch from aircraft carriers over the next decade,finance minister George Osborne said on Sunday.
"There is every likelihood that the defence sector is goingto get a larger piece of financing than expected earlier," IGanalyst Alastair McCaig said.
Shares in Rolls Royce and BAE Systems were up about 1percent, against a 0.8-percent weaker FTSE 100 index. (Reporting by Atul Prakash; Editing by Lionel Laurent)