According to Reuters calculations at current market prices, the effect of

the adjustment to prices by market-makers would take 2.05 points off the index on April 9.

Besides the stocks going ex-dividend on April 9, insurer Aviva (>> Aviva plc) goes ex-dividend on April 8, with a payment of 12.25 pence that is set to take 1.42 points off the index.

Friends Life (>> Friends Life Group Ltd) shareholders will also be entitled to a 24.10 pence dividend payment on April 9, as part of Friends Life's takeover by Aviva, after which Friends Life will be de-listed.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Blaise Robinson)