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BUZZ-Diageo: Road-block

** Diageo (Euronext: DGE.NX - news) -1.6 pct, bottom of FTSE 100

** Co expects its organic H1 sales growth to be impacted by the timing of Chinese New Year and a ban on selling alcohol along highways in India

** "Later Chinese New Year and the Indian Highway ban are blamed for the phasing of sales growth: we don’t see anything sinister about this," RBC Capital says

** YTD: +16 pct