Italy - Factors to watch on February 17

Centro HL Distribuzione SpA

17/02/2015 05:00

The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday. 
    Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot  
vouch for their accuracy. New items are marked with (*). 
     
    For a complete list of diary events in Italy please click on 
 IT/DIA . 
     
    POLITICS 
    Bank of Italy Director General Salvatore Rossi speaks before 
Chamber of Deputies Finance Committee (1230 GMT). 
     
    ECONOMY 
    ISTAT releases December foreign trade data (0900 GMT). 
    Talks between Greece and euro zone finance ministers over 
the country's debt broke down on Monday when Athens rejected a 
proposal to request a six-month extension of its international 
bailout as "unacceptable". ID:nL5N0VQ4C3  
    Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said he was "not 
worried" after inconclusive Eurogroup talks with Greece and said 
he hoped Athens would eventually request an extension of its 
bailout package. ID:nL5N0VQ47F  
         
    COMPANIES 
     
    SAIPEM  SPMI.MI  
    Italian oil services group Saipem missed full-year forecasts 
on Monday and gave a wary outlook for 2015 after booking more 
than 500 million euros ($567 million) of charges to clean up a 
balance sheet damaged by falling oil prices. ID:nL5N0VQ3XV  
    The company has no plans to proceed with any rights issue to 
strengthen its balance sheet, the company's CFO said on 
Monday. ID:nI6N0OZ00X  
     
    UNICREDIT  CRDI.MI  
    UniCredit, Italy's biggest bank by assets, has launched a 
new bond offer to retail investors to comply with international 
banking rules on supplementary capital requirements that could 
spur other Italian banks to follow suit. ID:nL5N0VM5W2  
     
    PRYSMIAN  PRY.MI   
    The cable maker said on Monday it had been awarded contracts 
worth more than 50 million euros for power transmission system 
expansion projects in Kuwait.  
     
    TELECOM ITALIA  TLIT.MI  
    The idea of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti becoming a shareholder 
in the phone group as part of the Metroweb operation has never 
been examined nor discussed by the state holding company, CDP 
President Franco Bassanini was quoted by AGI news agency as 
saying on Monday.    
     
    FINMECCANICA  SIFI.MI  
    Italy plans to maintain its order for 90 Lockheed Martin 
Corp F-35 fighter jets, despite political pressure to slash 
spending on the planes, after winning a major maintenance 
contract, sources in Rome and the U.S. told 
Reuters. ID:nL5N0VN4TO  
     
    CHL  CHL.MI  
    Bond holders' meeting (1030 GMT). 
     
    ENI  ENI.MI  
    Board meeting on FY results (press release on Feb. 18). 
     
    GEFRAN  GFRN.MI  
    Board meeting on preliminary FY results (0900 GMT). 
     
    INTEK GROUP  IKG.MI  
    Ends offer to subscribe new 2015-2020 bond. 
     
    TERNIENERGIA  TRNI.MI  
    Ordinary and extraordinary shareholders' meeting (0800 GMT). 
     
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    For Italian market data and news, click on codes in  
brackets: 
 
    20 biggest gainers (in percentage)............ .PG.MI  
    20 biggest losers (in percentage)............. .PL.MI  
    FTSE IT allshare index  .FTITLMS  
    FTSE Mib index........  .FTMIB  
    FTSE Allstars index...  .FTSTAR  
    FTSE Mid Cap index....  .FTITMC  
    Block trades..........  .BLK.MI  
    Stories on Italy......  IT-LEN  
     
    For pan-European market data and news, click on codes in  
 brackets: 
  European Equities speed guide................... EUR/EQUITY  
  FTSEurofirst 300 index.............................. .FTEU3  
  DJ STOXX index...................................... .STOXX  
  Top 10 STOXX sectors........................... .PGL.STOXXS  
  Top 10 EUROSTOXX sectors...................... .PGL.STOXXES  
  Top 10 Eurofirst 300 sectors................... .PGL.FTEU3S  
  Top 25 European pct gainers....................... .PG.PEUR  
  Top 25 European pct losers........................ .PL.PEUR  
  
  Main stock markets: 
  Dow Jones............... .DJI   Wall Street report ..... .N  
  Nikkei 225............. .N225   Tokyo report............ .T  
  FTSE 100............... .FTSE   London report........... .L  
  Xetra DAX............. .GDAXI   Frankfurt market stories .F  
  CAC-40................. .FCHI   Paris market stories... .PA  
  World Indices..................................... 0#.INDEX  
  Reuters survey of world bourse outlook......... EQUITYPOLL1  
  Western European IPO diary.......................... WEUIPO  
  European Asset Allocation........................ EUR/ASSET  
  Reuters News at a Glance: Equities............... TOP/EQE  
  Main currency report:............................... FRX/  
 
 
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