Romania - Factors to watch on Jan. 18

Banca Transilvania

18/01/2018 06:47

BUCHAREST, Jan 18(Reuters) - Here are news stories, press 
reports and events to watch which may affect Romanian financial 
markets on Thursday. 
     
    DEBT TENDER 
    Romanian debt managers tender 500 million lei ($131.33 
million) worth of June 2023 treasury bonds. 
     
    ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT 
    Romania's President Klaus Iohannis appointed European 
Parliament lawmaker Viorica Dancila as prime minister-designate 
on Wednesday, the country's third head of the government in a 
year and its first female premier.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1PC5EO 
         
    CEE MARKETS 
    The leu rebounded on Wednesday after Romanian president 
Klaus Iohannis accepted the government's nominee as prime 
minister designate, averting the risk of a political crisis. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1PC4R2 
     
    EMERGING MARKET 
    Mircea Ursache, vicepresident of the country's financial 
regulator ASF, said on Wednesday he expected the Bucharest Stock 
Exchange to be upgraded to "emerging" market from its current 
"frontier" status this year. Ziarul Financiar 
     
    FONDUL PROPRIETATEA 
    Franklin Templeton, the manager of Romanian investment fund 
Fondul Proprietatea  FP.BX  begins a subscription period on 
Thursday to buy back shares worth up to 1.12 billion lei  
($294.19 million) up until Feb. 23.   
             
    For the long-term Romanian diary, click on  RO/DIARY  
    For emerging markets economic events, click on  EMRG/DIARY  
    For an index of all diaries, click on  IND/DIARY       
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 Romanian equities     RO-E     E.Europe equities    .CEE 
 Romanian money        RO-M     Romanian debt         RO-D 
 Eastern Europe        EEU      All emerging markets  EMRG 
 Hot stocks            HOT      Stock markets         STX 
 Market debt news      DBT      Forex news            FRX 
 For real-time index quotes, double click on: 
 Bucharest BETI  .BETI  Warsaw WIG20  .WIG20  Budapest BUX 
 .BUX  Prague PX  .PX  
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($1 = 3.8071 lei) 
 
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