Poland - Factors to Watch April 1

Amica SA

01/04/2021 06:57

WARSAW, April 1 - The following are news stories, press
reports and events that may affect Poland's financial markets on
Thursday. ALL TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 2 hour):
    
    DATA
    IHS Markit will publish Polish manufacturing PMI data at
0700 GMT.
    
    IPOS
    According to the estimates of Parkiet daily, there may be
more than twice as many IPOs on the main market of the Warsaw
Stock Exchange in 2021 as there were in 2020.
    
    ECONOMY
    According to the forecasts of economists collected by
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily, the Polish economy will only make
up the losses of the pandemic in 2022, when the economy is
expected to grow by around 5%.
    
    EASTER
    Only 8% of households want to spend more on Easter this year
than last year as a result of uncertainty related to the
COVID-19 pandemic, Rzeczpospolita daily reported.
    
    VACCINATION
    From July 16 and 17-year-olds may join Poland's COVID-19
vaccination schedule, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily reported
citing sources.
    
    SWISS-FRANC MORTGAGES
    The chief executive of Credit Agricole Bank Polska, Piotr
Kwiatkowski, said that the entire portfolio of loans in swiss
francs in the case of his bank is less than 600 million zlotys 
($151.84 million), and the bank has received about 30 lawsuits,
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reported. Now he is waiting for the
Supreme Court's guidance on the topic, the newspaper said.
    
    AMICA
    Amica  AMCP.WA  board member, Michal Rakowski, said that in
2020 the company spent about 30 million zlotys on investments,
and in 2021 the value of investments is planned to be about 150
million zlotys, the newspaper reported.
    
    ****Reuters has not verified stories reported by Polish
media and does not vouch for their accuracy.****
    
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 Hot stocks             HOT       Stock markets          STX 
 Market debt news       DBT       Forex news             FRX 
 
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($1 = 3.9514 zlotys)

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