Poland - Factors to Watch May 9

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09/05/2018 06:53

Following are news stories, press reports and events to watch
that may affect Poland's financial markets on Wednesday. ALL
TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 2 hours):
    
    GETBACK  GBK.WA 
    Polish troubled debt-purchasing firm GetBack holds a press
conference at 0830 GMT to present more details regarding the
situation of more than 9,000 individual investors who bought its
bonds worth 2 billion zlotys  ($553.69 million), Rzeczpospolita
daily said.  
  
    KGHM  KGH.WA 
    One of the world's biggest copper miners, KGHM, expects this
year's consolidated net profit to match or exceed last year's
result despite lower capacity, acting Chief Executive Officer
Rafal Pawelczak said on Tuesday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1SF6LC
    
   GTC  GTCP.WA 
   Private equity fund Lone Star, a majority shareholder in
Poland's real-estate developer GTC demands that the Polish
government pay it 135 million euros  ($159.98 million) in
damages for blocking the construction of Galeria Wilanow
shopping mall, Parkiet daily said quoting unnamed sources.    
    
    COAL
    Polish firms which use coal for power or heat production
continue to face difficulties with keeping the mandatory coal
stockpiles, Rzeczpospolita daily said, citing data from the
energy markets regulator. 
    
    
    
    ****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 = 3.6121 zlotys)

($1 = 0.8439 euros)

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