Swedish stocks: Seen opening higher, EU approves Tele2 Dutch deal
28/11/2018 07:44
** Swedish shares seen opening higher on Wednesday in line with European
markets
** Asian shares posted modest gains on hopes Beijing will take steps to
support the economy and as investors tried to decipher conflicting signals on
prospects for de-escalating the Sino-U.S. trade dispute urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1Y32KE
** Deutsche Telekom DTEGn.DE secured unconditional EU antitrust approval
on Tuesday for its bid to acquire Tele2's TEL2b.ST Dutch business, confirming
a source-based Reuters story from Monday urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1Y25NC
** ANALYSIS-Telco mergers still a long-distance call in Europe urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1Y25ST
** New Zealand's intelligence agency has rejected the telecom industry's
first request to use 5G equipment provided by China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
HWT.UL , a competitor to Ericsson ERICb.ST , citing a security risk
urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1Y320K
** Kepler Cheuvreux starts Dustin DUST.ST coverage with buy
recommendation, newswire Direkt reports referring to Bloomberg
IG pre-market trading Stockholm OMXS30 +0.4 pct
Stoxx Europe 50 future STXEc1 +0.4 pct
MSCI index Asia Pacific ex Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS +0.7 pct
S&P 500 close previous trading day .SPX +0.3 pct
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(RM:olof.swahnberg.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)