German stocks - Factors to watch on August 30

Bertrandt AG

30/08/2017 06:15

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The following are some 
of the factors that may move German stocks on Wednesday: 
     
    NORTH KOREA 
    The United Nations condemned North Korea's "outrageous" 
firing of a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday, demanding 
Pyongyang halt its weapons programme but holding back on any 
threat of new sanctions on the isolated regime.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1LF6AZ 
     
    AUTOS  BMWG.DE  DAIGn.DE  VOWG_p.DE  
    Tropical Storm Harvey is likely to briefly depress already 
slowing U.S. auto sales, but could eventually help boost demand 
as damaged cars are replaced, analysts said on Tuesday. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N1LF1FR 
     
    RTL  RRTL.DE  
    Q2 results due. 
     
    BERTRANDT  BDTG.DE   
    The group reported a 79 percent drop in third-quarter 
operating profit and said it was suffering from the postponement 
of project and strong price pressure.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1LF12U 
     
    AIR BERLIN  AB1.DE  
    Former motor racing driver Niki Lauda, who has expressed 
interest in buying back leisure unit Niki from Air Berlin, which 
he founded, told Oesterreich daily he has had constructive talks 
with the company's administrator. He will now go through the 
figures to decide whether to make an offer, the paper says. 
    News conference by Ryanair  RYA.I , one of the parties 
interested in taking over Air Berlin assets, due in Berlin at 
1300 GMT.  
    Also, bidder Hans Rudolf Woehrl is due to hold talks over 
Air Berlin assets on Wednesday. 
    The German government said a legal challenge against 
Berlin's decision to grant a state bridging loan for insolvent 
airline Air Berlin won't stop dispersal of the funds. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nB4N1IQ02L 
     
    ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS 
    STADA  STAGn.DE  - 0.72 eur/shr dividend proposed 
    BIOTEST  BIOG.DE  BIOG_p.DE  - 0.05 eur/ordinary shr, 0.07 
eur/preference share dividend proposed 
         
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS   
    Dow Jones  .DJI  +0.3 pct, S&P 500 .SPX  +0.1 pct, Nasdaq 
 .IXIC  +0.3 pct at close.  .N  
    Nikkei  .N225  +0.8 pct, Shanghai stocks  .SSEC  +0.1 pct. 
    Time: 5.15 GMT.  .T   .SS  
     
    GERMAN ECONOMIC DATA 
    German preliminary August inflation data due at 1200 GMT. 
CPI seen +0.1 pct m/m, +1.8 pct y/y. HICP seen +0.1 pct m/m, 
+1.7 pct y/y. 
     ECONDE   G7TODAY   
     
    EUROPEAN FACTORS TO WATCH  WATCH/EU  
    DIARIES  DE/DIA   WEU/EQUITY  
    REUTERS TOP NEWS  TOP/NEWS  
 
 (Reporting by Emma Thomasson and Maria Sheahan) 
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Keywords: GERMANY STOCKS/FACTORS