Poland - Factors to Watch May 15

Capitea SA

15/05/2018 07:11

Following are news stories, press reports and events to watch
that may affect Poland's financial markets on Tuesday. ALL TIMES
GMT (Poland: GMT + 2 hours):
  
    GDP, CPI DATA
    The statistics office is to release April consumer inflation
data and first quarter gross domestic product data at 0800 GMT.
 PLCPIY=ECI   PLGDP=ECI 
    
    CYFROWY POLSAT  CPS.WA , NETIA  NET.WA 
    Media and telecoms company Cyfrowy Polsat together with
Karswell Limited will proceed with their tender offer for the
shares of telecoms firm Netia  NET.WA  despite the fact that one
of the conditions for the tender offer has not been fulfilled,
Cyfrowy Polsat said in a statement late on Monday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nEM2KRC44a
    
    TAXES
    Poland is considering lowering the corporate income tax for
small and medium-sized companies to 9 percent starting from the
beginning of 2019, Deputy Finance Minister Pawel Gruza told
Rzeczpospolita daily.
    
    CCC  CCCP.WA 
    The net loss of shoes producer CCC widened to 146 million
zlotys in the first quarter from 41 million a year ago.
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N1SM0I3
    
    PLAY  PLY.WA 
    The net profit of telecoms company Play Communications
increased to 153 million zlotys ($42.69 million) in the first
quarter from 19 million a year ago.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1SL15X
    
    GETBACK  GBK.WA 
    Debt collector GetBack, currently undergoing restructuring,
is expected to publish its 2017 financial report on Tuesday.
    
    FINANCIAL RESULTS
    Copper miner KGHM  KGH.WA  and Poland's largest utility   
PGE  PGE.WA  are due to publish financial results after the
Tuesday trading session. 
        
    ****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 
($1 = 3.5843 zlotys)

 (Reporting by Warsaw Bureau)
 ((warsaw.newsroom@reuters.com; tel. +48 22 6539700))