Halifax HPI m/m 0.9% 0.3% 0.7%

FTSE100 slightly lower in early deals as mining stocks retreat

EUR Italian Industrial Production m/m 0.3% 0.5% 0.1%

UK house prices rise at fastest pace since 2010 - Halifax

(Reuters) - British house prices rose at their fastest annual pace in nearly three years last month, and are likely to increase further in the remainder of 2013, mortgage lender Halifax said on Tuesday.

Halifax said that house prices in the three months to July were 4.6 percent higher than a year earlier, beating economists' forecasts and their fastest pace of growth since August 2010.

Prices rose by 0.9 percent in July alone, gathering pace from a 0.6 percent increase in June.

GBP Manufacturing Production m/m 1.9% 0.9% -0.7%

GBP Industrial Production m/m 1.1% 0.7% 0.0%

EUR Italian Prelim GDP q/q -0.2% -0.4% -0.6%

EUR German Factory Orders m/m 3.8% 1.1% -1.3%

FTSE100 slightly lower at midday, with miners in retreat

CAD Trade Balance -0.5B -0.5B -0.3B

USD Trade Balance -34.2B -43.1B -45.0B

GBP NIESR GDP Estimate 0.7% 0.6%

USD JOLTS Job Openings 3.94M 3.91M 3.83M

USD IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism 45.1 47.9 47.1

FTSE100 ends session modestly lower as the miners weaken