German stocks - Factors to watch on March 31

CEWE Stiftung & Co KGaA

31/03/2022 05:50

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, March 31 (Reuters) - The following are
some of the factors that may move German stocks on Thursday:
    
    UKRAINE CRISIS
    Ukrainian forces are preparing for new Russian attacks in
the east of the country as Moscow builds up its troops there
after suffering setbacks near the capital Kyiv, President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N2VX7KZ
    
    Meanwhile, Germany will continue to pay for Russian gas in
euros or dollars, a government spokesman said, adding that
Russian President Vladimir Putin had told the German chancellor
nothing would change for European partners despite his plan for
rouble payments.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N2VX35P
    
    Russian gas via the Yamal-Europe pipeline has resumed
westward flows to Germany from Poland on Wednesday after halting
for a brief period earlier in the day, data from the Gascade
pipeline operator showed.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N2VX8G5
       
    GAZPROM 
    Russian gas company Gazprom's offices in Germany were raided
by EU antitrust regulators, people familiar with the matter said
on Wednesday, as the EU watchdog ramped up its investigation
into the company's gas supplies to Europe.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N2VX673
    
    UNIPER  UN01.DE 
    German utility Uniper and state bank KfW have agreed to
extend a 2 billion euro ($2.23 billion) credit facility granted
by the bank to Uniper in January until April 2023 due to the
ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine, Uniper said on Wednesday.
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    CORONAVIRUS
    Germany reported 274,901 new infections and 279 more deaths.
    
    BASF  BASFn.DE 
    Germany's BASF said on Wednesday it would have to stop
producing if natural gas supplies fell to less than half of its
current needs, as the world's largest chemicals group warned of
the damage to its operations from Europe's power crunch.
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    DEUTSCHE WOHNEN SE  DWNG.DE  
    Full-year results due.
    
    JUNGHEINRICH AG  JUNG_p.DE  
    Full-year results due.
    
    KNORR BREMSE AG  KBX.DE  
    Full-year results due.
    
    VARTA AG  VAR1.DE  
    Full-year results due.
    
    CEWE STIFTUNG & CO KGAA  CWCG.DE  
    Full-year results due.
    
    GFT TECHNOLOGIES  GFTG.DE  
    Full-year results due.
    
    SMA SOLAR TECHNOLOGY AG  S92G.DE 
    Full-year results due.
    
    BERTELSMANN SE & CO KGAA  BTGGg.F  
    Full-year results due.
    
    DEUTSCHE BAHN AG  DBN.UL 
    Full-year results due.
    
    
        
    EX-DIVIDEND 
    CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG  AFXG.DE  - 0.90 euros/shr dividend
    
        
    ANALYSTS' VIEWS 
    RWE AG  RWEG.DE : JP MORGAN CUTS TARGET PRICE TO EUR 60 FROM
EUR 64
    BIONTECH SE  BNTX.O : JP MORGAN RAISES TARGET PRICE TO $183
FROM $180
    MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG  MBGn.DE : CREDIT SUISSE CUTS TARGET
PRICE TO EUR 83 FROM EUR 90
    SYNLAB AG  SYAB.DE : HSBC CUTS TARGET PRICE TO EUR 26 FROM
EUR 28
    SILTRONIC AG  WAFGn.DE : JEFFERIES CUTS TARGET PRICE TO EUR
130 FROM EUR 160
    
        
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS  
    Dow Jones  .DJI  -0.2%, S&P 500 .SPX  -0.6%, Nasdaq  .IXIC 
-1.2% at close.  .N 
    Nikkei  .N225  -0.3%, Shanghai stocks  .SSEC  -0.1%.  .T 
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    Time: 4:50 GMT

    
    ECONOMY
    German February retail sales due at 0600 GMT. Seen +6.1%
y/y, +0.5% m/m
    German March unemployment due at 0755 GMT. Rate seen at
5.0%, change seen at -20k
    
    
    
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