German stocks - Factors to watch on June 26

Bauer AG

26/06/2015 06:18

FRANKFURT, June 26 (Reuters) - The following are some of the 
factors that may move German stocks on Friday: 
     
    K+S  SDFGn.DE  
    The company said it was assessing options after Potash 
Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc  POT.TO  proposed to acquire all 
its shares. A source told Reuters that K+S was likely to reject 
the offer, which would value the company at slightly more than 
40 euros per share.  ID:nL8N0ZB4F5   ID:nL8N0ZB4LF  
     
    METRO  MEOG.DE  
    Erich Kellerhals, the minority owner and founder of 
Media-Saturn Holding GmbH, repeated he wanted to buy back 
Europe's biggest electronics chain from German retailer Metro AG 
 MEOG.DE  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. 
         
    HORNBACH HOLDING  HBHG_p.DE  
    Hornbach Holding said Q1 EBIT fell 13 percent to 77 million 
euros ($86 million) but it continued to aim for full-year 
consolidated EBIT at around the same level as in 2014/15.        
     
    EX-DIVIDEND 
    BAUER  B5AG.DE  -  0.15 eur/share  
         
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS 
    Dow Jones  .DJI  down 0.4 pct, S&P 500  .SPX  down 0.3 pct, 
Nasdaq  .IXIC  down 0.2 pct at Thursday's close.  ID:nL1N0ZB2CN  
    Nikkei  .N225  down 0.1 pct at 0517 GMT.  ID:nL3N0ZC1GL  
     
    GERMAN ECONOMIC DATA 
    May import prices due at 0600 GMT. Seen up 0.1 pct m/m and 
down 0.4 pct y/y, compared to 0.6 pct rise m/m and 0.6 pct drop 
y/y in April. 
     
    EUROPEAN FACTORS TO WATCH  WATCH/EU  
    DIARIES  DE/DIA   WEU/EQUITY  
    REUTERS TOP NEWS  TOP/NEWS  
 
($1 = 0.8941 euros) 
 
 (Reporting by Harro ten Wolde and Georgina Prodhan) 
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