Dec 7 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening higher on Wednesday, with futures FFIc1 up 0.43%.

* GSK: Drugmakers GSK Plc GSK.L , Pfizer Inc PFE.N , Sanofi SA SASY.PA and Boehringer Ingelheim were spared thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming that the heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer.

* BT: Britain's CityFibre has filed a complaint to the competition regulator against BT's Openreach.

* EASYJET: EasyJet EZJ.L averted a French cabin crew strike over the Christmas holidays after it agreed to raise base pay by 7.5% while paying an additional 3,000 euro bonus to staffers.

* PARTNERSHIP: The U.S. and Britain announced an energy partnership aimed at sustaining a higher level of LNG exports to Britain.

* EMA: The EMA said its emergency task force has concluded that messenger RNA bivalent COVID-19 vaccines may be used in previously unvaccinated children and adults.

* NORTH SEA OIL: The British government should introduce a price floor to mitigate the impact of its new windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers, executives and industry sources say.

* OIL: Oil futures edged slightly higher on hopes for improved Chinese demand while uncertainty about how a Western cap on Russian oil prices would play out kept markets on edge.

* GOLD: Gold prices hemmed in a tight range as investors looked to gauge the pace of rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

* METALS: Copper prices ticked down as the dollar strengthened amid a darkened outlook for global economic growth.

* FTSE: London's main stock indexes fell on Tuesday, tracking a weak session on Wall Street on fears about aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

* UK CORPORATE DIARY:

Mitchells & Butlers

MAB.L

FY results

QUIZ Plc

QUIZ.L

HY results

Moonpig

MOONM.L

HY results

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Reporting by Prerna Bedi in Bengaluru