Poland - Factors to Watch Aug 7

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07/08/2018 07:22

WARSAW, Aug 7 - Following are news stories, press reports
and events that may affect Poland's financial markets on
Tuesday. ALL TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 2 hours):
    
    DATA
    The central bank will release FX reserves for July at 1200
GMT. 
    
    DEFENSE
    During President Andrzej Duda visit in Australia later in
August Poland may sign a letter of intent to buy two warships --
HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Newcastle as well as one out of use
frigate for around 2 billion zlotys, Rzeczpospolita daily said
quoting unnamed sources. 
    
    COAL
    Poland's biggest coal producer PGG does not expect coal
prices for its contractors to rise significantly next year,
Parkiet quoted PGG CEO as saying.
    The CEO also said that increased coal imports from Russia
are the result of booming economy and help PGG keep its coal
stockpiles low.
    
    GETBACK  GBK.WA 
    There are at least eight investors from Poland and abroad
interested in taking over the troubled debt collector GetBack,
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily quoted GetBack CEO as saying. 
        
    ****Reuters has not verified stories reported by Polish
media and does not vouch for their accuracy.****
    
    For other related news, double click on:
 Polish equities        PL-E      E.Europe equities      .CEE 
 Polish money           PL-M      Polish debt            PL-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:
 Warsaw WIG20  .WIG20   Budapest BUX  .BUX   Prague PX  .PX 

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