Poland - Factors to Watch May 16
16/05/2025 07:00
WARSAW, May 16 - The following are significant news stories, press reports and events on Friday. ALL TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 2 hours): PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS The candidate from Poland's ruling Civic Coalition (KO), Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, is in the lead ahead of a May 18 presidential election, with support of 34.2%, according to a Pollster poll for Super Express daily published on Friday. Karol Nawrocki, the candidate supported by the main opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), has 26.9% support. He is followed by the far-right Confederation party candidate Slawomir Mentzen, with 13.1%. DATA On Friday at 1200, the Polish central bank will release data on core inflation in April. Analysts polled by Reuters estimate that it fell to 3.5% from 3.6% in March. DINO POLSKA DNP.WA Polish food retail chain Dino Polska DNP.WA reported a first-quarter net profit of 311.2 million zlotys ($81.91 million) on Thursday, up 5% year-on-year. The result was above analysts' expectations of 286 million zlotys. LOANS IN CHF The number of pending proceedings in Polish courts concerning loans in Swiss francs has been falling for another quarter. At the end of the first quarter, there were 110,000 of them, and at the end of the fourth quarter of 2024, 114,600, Parkiet daily reported. ****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 = 3.7859 zlotys) (Reporting by Warsaw Bureau) ((warsaw.newsroom@reuters.com; tel. +48 22 6539700))