Italy - Factors to watch on July 19
19/07/2019 05:00
The following factors could affect Italian markets on Friday.
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
Cabinet meeting (12,00).
The leaders of Italy's coalition partners the League and
5-Star Movement warned on Thursday the government could collapse
following mutual recriminations over the election of the next
European Commission president. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N24J6HN
ECONOMY
Bank of Italy releases balance of payments data for May.
COMPANIES
GENERALI GASI.MI
Italy's top insurer has reached a deal to buy Portuguese
insurer Seguradoras Unidas and a smaller service company from
U.S. fund Apollo Global Management APO.N for a total of 600
million euros, it said on Thursday. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nS8N249091
UNICREDIT CRDI.MI
Moody's upgraded the bank's junior senior unsecured rating
and subordinated debt ratings to Baa2 and Baa3 respectively, the
rating agency said on Thursday. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nMDY9X1FbZ
BPER EMII.MI , UNIPOLSAI US.MI
Italy's competition watchdog approved a takeover of Unipol
Banca by fellow lender Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna (BPER)
with conditions. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nS8N249092
CIR CIRX , COFIDE COFI.MI
Shareholders of both holding companies meet to approve a
merger plan through incorporation of Cir into Cofide.
CELLULARLINE CELL.MI
The company's shares will start trading on the Star segment
of the Italian stock exchange on July 22. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN24J17N
ITALIAONLINE IOL.MI
Italy's market watchdog approved Sunrise Investment's tender
offer on ordinary and saving shares of the internet company. The
acceptance period will start on July 29 and will end on
Septembre 12, Sunrise said on Thursday.
OTHERS
CHL ends capital increase rights
LVenture Group ends capital increase rights
Netweek ends capital increase rights
BB Biotech holds board meeting on H1 results
DIARY
Rome, Agcom conference on digital society, with President
Angelo Maria Cardani, RAI President Marcello Foa, Facebook
Country Manager Luca Colombo, Mediaset Chairman Fedele
Confalonieri, Rai CEO Fabrizio Salini, Fastweb CEO Alberto
Calcagno, TIM CEO Luigi Gubitosi, Vodafone Italia Chairman
Pietro Guindani, Wind CEO Jeffrey Hedberg, Open Fiber CEO
Elisabetta Ripa (0900).
Florence, restitution ceremony of the Van Huysum “Vase of
Flowers”, with Cultural Heritage Minister Alberto Bonisoli,
Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi, German Foreign Minister
Heiko Maas (1200).
(Milan newsroom, +39 02 6612 9507, fax +39 02 801149,
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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/