German stocks - Factors to watch on March 7

Draegerwerk AG & Co KGaA

07/03/2019 05:39

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, March 7 (Reuters) - The following are some
of the factors that may move German stocks on Thursday:
    
    ECB
    The European Central Bank will slash growth forecasts and is
likely to provide its strongest signal yet that fresh stimulus
is coming in the form of more cheap loans, hoping to stop an
unexpected slowdown from becoming a downturn.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N20T2PR
    
    
    CONTINENTAL  CONG.DE 
    2018 results due. The group published preliminary results in
January.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASP0004J3
    
    DEUTSCHE POST  DPWGn.DE 
    Q4 results due. EBIT seen down 7 percent. Poll:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N20R2RI
    
    DEUTSCHE TELEKOM  DTEGn.DE 
    U.S. state antitrust enforcers are expressing deep concerns
that T-Mobile US'  TMUS.N  proposed takeover of Sprint  S.N 
could raise prices for consumers, signalling they might seek to
thwart the deal, Bloomberg reported.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N20T48J
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    MERCK KGAA  MRCG.DE 
    Q4 results due. EBITDA seen up 2 percent. Poll:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N20S2E7
    
    VONOVIA  VNAn.DE 
    Q4 results due. FFO I seen up 25 percent. Poll:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N20S2PD
    
    AUTOS  BMWG.DE   DAIGn.DE   VOWG_p.DE 
    Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies  UBER.UL  is planning
to expand into additional cities in Germany this year, its
European chief told a newspaper.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N20T6U1
    
    AXEL SPRINGER  SPRGn.DE 
    Q4 results due. Adj EBITDA seen up 12 percent. Poll:
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N20O5TY
        
    HANNOVER RUECK  HNRGn.DE 
    2018 results due
    
    HUGO BOSS  BOSSn.DE 
    Q4 results due. Net profit seen up 62 percent.
Poll: urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N20R29W
    
    PROSIEBENSAT.1 MEDIA  PSMGn.DE 
    2018 results due. Adjusted EBITDA seen down 4 percent.
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N20T2S2
    
    DRAEGERWERK  DRWG_p.DE 
    2018 results due. The company released preliminary results
in January.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASP0004MJ
    
    KNORR BREMSE  KBX.DE 
    2018 results and 2019 guidance due
    
    AIRLINES  LHAG.DE 
    European airline chiefs called for a shake-up of air traffic
control, including greater competition and faster training, to
ease bottlenecks that led to rising delays in 2018.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N20T5UH

        
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS  
    Dow Jones  .DJI  -0.5 pct, S&P 500 .SPX  -0.7 pct, Nasdaq
 .IXIC  -0.9 pct at close.  .N 
    Nikkei  .N225  -0.8 pct, Shanghai stocks  .SSEC  -0.4 pct.
 .T   .SS 
    Time: 5:39 GMT. 
    
    
    ECONOMY
    No major German economic data scheduled
        
    EUROPEAN FACTORS TO WATCH  WATCH/EU 
    DIARIES  DE/DIA   WEU/EQUITY 
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