Romania - Factors to watch on Feb. 6

BRD Groupe Societe Generale SA

06/02/2020 05:44

BUCHAREST, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Romanian financial
markets on Thursday.
    
    EARNINGS
    Romanian oil and gas group OMV Petrom  ROSNP.BX ,
majority-controlled by Austria's OMV  OMVV.VI  and lender BRD
Group Societe Generale  ROBRD.BX , majority-controlled by
France's Societe Generale  SOGN.PA  to present fourth quarter
results.
    
    DEBT TENDER
    Romanian debt managers tender 500 million lei ($115.48
million) of Feb. 2029 treasury bonds.
    
    NO CONFIDENCE VOTE
    Romanian lawmakers toppled the three-month-old centrist
minority government of Prime Minister Ludovic Orban on
Wednesday, raising the prospect of an early parliamentary
election which Orban's party says it is confident of winning.
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    President Klaus Iohannis has called parties for political
consultations from 1000 GMT and has said will likely designate a
prime minister by the end of Thursday.
        
    CEE MARKETS
    The Romanian leu held steady against the euro on Wednesday
ahead of a no-confidence vote in parliament which could see the
Liberal minority government fall after just three months, while
other central and eastern European currencies were firmer.
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    CEE CURRENCIES
    Hungary's forint is likely to just drift off a record low
over the next year while the Czech crown is seen giving up
recent gains, a Reuters poll showed, as central European
currencies find little traction in 2020.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2A424D
            
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