Italy - Factors to watch on Aug. 1

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01/08/2018 05:00

The following factors could affect Italian markets on Wednesday.
    Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot
vouch for their accuracy. New items are marked with (*).
    
    For a complete list of diary events in Italy please click on
 IT/DIA .
    
    POLITICS
    Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Development and Labour
Minister Luigi Di Maio speaks before Senate Public Works
Committee on communication sector programmatic lines (1200 GMT).
    Economy Minister Giovanni Tria meets French counterpart
Bruno Le Maire (0730 GMT); later Le Maire is due to meet Deputy
Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio.
    Infrastructure Minister Danilo Toninelli speaks before
Chamber of Deputies Environment Committee on strategy of the
Ministry (1200 GMT).
    Extraordinary Ilva Commissioners speak before Senate
Industry and Environment committee (1800 GMT).
    
    ECONOMY
    Markit/ADACI releases July PMI manufacturing (0745 GMT).
    Transport Ministry releases July car sales data (1600 GMT).
    July state sector borrowing requirement data.
    
    COMPANIES
    Bourse After Hours market closed.
    
    ENEL  ENEI.MI 
    Italian utility Enel expects to raise up to 1.5 billion
euros ($1.8 billion) from asset sales in the second half of the
year to help cut debt after a series of acquisitions.
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nS8N1PA06Z
    
    GENERALI  GASI.MI 
    The insurer said on Tuesday the board had approved new
organisational structure and appointed Frederic De Courtois
General Manager.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nI6N1UF013
    Releases H1 results (0530 GMT), followed by conference call
(1000 GMT).
    
    POSTE ITALIANE  PST.MI , UNICREDIT  CRDI.MI 
    Poste Italiane and UniCredit have teamed up in the consumer
credit business, the post office and Italy's biggest bank by
assets said in a joint statement.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nI6N1UF014
    
    SAIPEM  SPMI.MI 
    Italian oil contractor Saipem said it had been awarded a
contract to lay pipes to transport gas to Serbia by Gazprom
GAZP.MM unit Gastrans.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nI6N1UF012
    
    SALVATORE FERRAGAMO  SFER.MI 
    Bosses of struggling Italian luxury goods maker Salvatore
Ferragamo said there was "work to be done" and "things to be put
back in the right direction" after the group posted sliding
revenue and profit for the first half of the year.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N1UR76Z
    
    FINCATIERI  FCT.MI 
    Official speaks before Chamber of Deputies Defence and
Industry committees (1300 GMT).
    
    MEDIOBANCA  MDBI.MI 
    Releases FY results (closed on June 30, 2018 - before bourse
opening), followed by conference call (0645 GMT).
    
    CAMPARI GROUP  CPRI.MI 
    Board meeting on H1 results, followed by conference call
(1100 GMT).
    
    FERRARI N.V. RACE.MI 
    Board meeting on H1 results, followed by conference call
(1500 GMT).
    
    INTESA SANPAOLO  ISP.MI 
    Board meeting on H1 results, followed by conference call
(1300 GMT).
    
    SNAM  SRG.MI 
    Releases H1 results (0600 GMT), followed by conference call
(1430 GMT).
    
    GEOX  GEO.MI 
    Geox said on Tuesday the net profit came in at 1.5 million
euros in the first half, down from 8.4 million euros year ago.
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1UR0X4
    
    SOSTRAVEL  SOTR.MI 
    Debuts on AIM segment (0630 GMT).
   
    TENARIS  TENR.MI 
    Board meeting on H1 results.
    
    Board meetings on H1 results: AEDES  AEDI.MI , ASCOPIAVE
 ASCI.MI , CULTI MILANO  CULT.MI , ENERVIT  ENVT.MI , GRUPPO
GAMENET  GAME.MI  followed by conference call, IL SOLE 24 ORE
 S24.MI , IREN  IREE.MI .
    
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    For Italian market data and news, click on codes in 
brackets:

    20 biggest gainers (in percentage)............ .PG.MI 
    20 biggest losers (in percentage)............. .PL.MI 
    FTSE IT allshare index  .FTITLMS 
    FTSE Mib index........  .FTMIB 
    FTSE Allstars index...  .FTSTAR 
    FTSE Mid Cap index....  .FTITMC 
    Block trades..........  .BLK.MI 
    Stories on Italy......  IT-LEN 
    
    For pan-European market data and news, click on codes in 
 brackets:
  European Equities speed guide................... EUR/EQUITY 
  FTSEurofirst 300 index.............................. .FTEU3 
  DJ STOXX index...................................... .STOXX 
  Top 10 STOXX sectors........................... .PGL.STOXXS 
  Top 10 EUROSTOXX sectors...................... .PGL.STOXXES 
  Top 10 Eurofirst 300 sectors................... .PGL.FTEU3S 
  Top 25 European pct gainers....................... .PG.PEUR 
  Top 25 European pct losers........................ .PL.PEUR 
 
  Main stock markets:
  Dow Jones............... .DJI   Wall Street report ..... .N 
  Nikkei 225............. .N225   Tokyo report............ .T 
  FTSE 100............... .FTSE   London report........... .L 
  Xetra DAX............. .GDAXI   Frankfurt market stories .F 
  CAC-40................. .FCHI   Paris market stories... .PA 
  World Indices..................................... 0#.INDEX 
  Reuters survey of world bourse outlook......... EQUITYPOLL1 
  Western European IPO diary.......................... WEUIPO 
  European Asset Allocation........................ EUR/ASSET 
  Reuters News at a Glance: Equities............... TOP/EQE 
  Main currency report:............................... FRX/