Sept 7 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 futures were up 0.22 percentahead of the cash market open on Friday.
* ASTRAZENECA: AstraZeneca Plc said on Friday the U.S. Food and DrugAdministration had granted a breakthrough therapy label for its drug to treat atype of severe asthma, potentially speeding up its development and review.
* GREENE KING: British pub operator Greene King Plc's like-for-likesales rose 2.8 percent higher in the first quarter, boosted by exceptionallywarm weather in the country and the football World Cup.
* PLAYTECH-PLUS500: Playtech Plc has sold its entire 10 percentshareholding in retail online trading platform Plus500 for about 176million pounds ($228 million), the company said on Friday, giving no details onthe buyer.
* ENQUEST: UK-focused oil company EnQuest, which already owns aquarter of the Magnus oil field, is planning a rights issue for $138 million tohelp it buy the rest from BP, it said on Friday.
* BRITISH AIRWAYS: Financial data has been stolen from potentially hundredsof thousands of British Airways customers who made online bookings in recentweeks. The thefts occurred during a data breach that affected bookings made onthe airline's website between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5, parent International AirlinesGroup said on Thursday.
* LLOYD'S OF LONDON: Lloyd's Of London is set to appoint Australia's QBEInsurance Group's former head John Neal to take on the role of CEO atthe specialist UK insurance market, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
* The UK blue chip index closed 0.9 percent down at 7391.65 points onThursday, as investors assessed turmoil on emerging markets and waited to seewhether the United States would take its trade dispute with China to a new leveland impose tariffs on a further $200 billion of imports.
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