Poland - Factors to Watch Oct 10

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10/10/2024 07:15

WARSAW, Oct 10 - The following are news stories, press
reports and events that may affect Poland's financial markets on
Thursday. ALL TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 2 hours):
    
    AMMUNITION
    Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence
Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily that
a 155 mm ammunition factory must be built during this term of
government and that he would like this to happen within the next
two years.
    
    AIR DEFENCE
    Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense
Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily that
regarding shooting down drones and missiles threatening Poland
in Ukrainian airspace, discussion on this topic was currently
suspended but it is to be discussed at the next NATO defense
ministers' meeting.
    
    BANKS
    This year is looking great for bankers, with no need for new
Swiss franc mortgage risk provisions, interest rates on hold,
and virtually no government-ordered mortgage holidays, and the
banking sector already making a record profit of 28.8 billion
zlotys ($7.33 billion) in the first eight months, Gazeta
Wyborcza daily reported.
    
    BUSINESS SENTIMENT
    For the first time in a KPMG study, chief executives of
Poland's largest companies are more optimistic about the
prospects of the domestic economy than those of their own
companies, Rzeczpospolita daily reported.
    
    HOME ELECTRONICS
    Online stores X-com and Neonet have signed an investment
deal aimed at creating a strong entity in the retail sale of
computers, RTV, household appliances and consumer electronics
and they also plan to do business abroad, Puls Biznesu daily
reported.
        
    
    ****Reuters has not verified stories reported by Polish
media and does not vouch for their accuracy.****
    
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($1 = 3.9269 zlotys)

 (Reporting by Warsaw Bureau)
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