German stocks - Factors to watch on May 21

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21/05/2021 06:04

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, May 21 (Reuters) - The following are some
of the factors that may move German stocks on Friday:
    
    CORONAVIRUS
    Germany reported 8,769 new infections and 226 more deaths.
    BioNTech SE  22UAy.DE  Chief Executive Ugur Sahin said on
Thursday the vaccine it developed with Pfizer Inc  PFE.N  is
expected to be 70% to 75% effective in protecting against
infections of the COVID-19 variant first detected in India.
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    LUFTHANSA  LHAG.DE 
    The Thiele family, Deutsche Lufthansa AG's second-largest
shareholder, sold more than half of its stake in the airline
group following the death of Heinz Hermann Thiele, the
bookrunner said in a statement on Thursday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N2N72WN
    
    BMW  BMWG.DE 
    German luxury carmaker BMW said on Thursday it would have to
set aside 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) less than initially
feared for expected European antitrust fines for alleged
collusion with rivals.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN2N70WH
    
    ANALYST VIEWS
    * COVESTRO AG  1COV.DE : JP MORGAN RESUMES WITH UNDERWEIGHT
RATING
    
    ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS
    Hypoport  HYQGn.DE  - 0 eur/shr dividend proposed
    Fresenius  FREG.DE  - 0.88 eur/shr dividend proposed
    SGL Carbon  SGCG.DE  - 0 eur/shr dividend proposed
    Kuka  KU2G.DE  - 0.11 eur/shr dividend proposed
            
    EX-DIVIDEND 
    FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE  FMEG.DE  - 1.34 eur/shr dividend 
    TELEFONICA DEUTSCHLAND  O2Dn.DE  - 0.18 eur/shr dividend 
    KNORR-BREMSE  KBX.DE  - 1.52 eur/shr dividend
    STRATEC  SBSG.DE  - 0.90 eur/shr dividend 
    LPKF LASER & ELECTRONICS  LPKG.DE  - 0.10 eur/shr dividend 
    NORMA  NOEJ.DE  - 0.70 eur/shr dividend
        
    
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS  
    Dow Jones  .DJI  -0.5%, S&P 500 .SPX  -0.3%, Nasdaq  .IXIC 
unchanged at close.  .N 
    Nikkei  .N225  +0.3%, Shanghai stocks  .SSEC  -0.3%.  .T 
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    Time: 4:51 GMT

    ECONOMY
    German May Markit Flash PMI due at 0730 GMT. Manufacturing
seen at 65.9, services at 52.0
    
    
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