Italy - Factors to watch on Nov. 22

Enertronica Santerno SpA

22/11/2018 05:00

The following factors could affect Italian markets on Thursday.
    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
    Rome, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte receives Slovak
counterpart Peter Pellegrini (1230 GMT), President of Iraq
Barham Salih (1500 GMT), Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergej
Lavrov (1730 GMT).
    Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on
Wednesday his government should be allowed to get on with its
job and was not looking to clash with the European Union over
its budget. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1XW6D9
    Italy's government will not tax citizens' savings, Deputy
Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday in an interview
with Rete4 television. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1XW6FC
    
    ECONOMY
    Young Publishers Permanent Observatory holds annual meeting
on "New Meetings for the Future" with Dutch Central Bank
Governor Klaas Knot, Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio visco,
Deutsche Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann in Florence (1630
GMT).
    Rome, Senate holds 'question time' with Economy Minister
Giovanni Tria (1400 GMT).
    Conference on "Factory for Excellence" with Bank of Italy
Director General Salvatore Rossi in Como (0900 GMT).
    Italian bond yield are not linked to the budget but would
fall as soon as European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi says
quantitative easing were to continue, the economics spokesman of
the ruling League party Claudio Borghi said on
Wednesday. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nR1N1X4026
    
    DEBT
    Treasury announces sale of CTZ and BTPei bonds, with
relative amounts to be auctioned on Nov. 27.
    Treasury offers new 4-year 'BTP Italia' bond to
institutional investors (morning only).
    Italy sold 863 million euros ($983 million) of the latest
'BTP Italia' inflation-linked bond over three days to retail
investors, in stark contrast with purchases worth 4.06 billion
euros of a similar bond sold in May. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nS8N1X5042
    
    
    COMPANIES
    
    BANKS
    Investors have piled up bearish bets on Italian banks in
recent weeks, data shows, underscoring the lenders' dim profit
outlook and worries over the euro zone's third-largest economy
as Rome's showdown with Brussels over its budget
escalates. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1XW30N
    
    UNICREDIT  CRDI.MI 
    UniCredit investor Fondazione Cariverona believes it is the
job of the bank's management to evaluate options that would
create value, a source close to shareholder, which owns 1.8
percent of the lender, said on Wednesday. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nS8N1X5044
    
    TELECOM ITALIA  TLIT.MI  
    An Italian administrative court annulled fines on phone
operators Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Fastweb and WindTre which
had been imposed last year by communications regulator AGCOM
over a billing practice. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nS8N1RT02O
    
    RCS MEDIAGROUP  RCSM.MI 
    RCS Mediagroup contested the sale of real estate assets to
Blackstone because it believes the U.S. private equity fund paid
too little for them in 2013, a source at the Italian media group
said on Wednesday. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1XW66Q
    
    ENERTRONICA  ENER.MI 
    Board meeting to approve new industrial plan and then H1
results.
    
    PIQUADRO  PQ.MI 
    Board meeting on H1 results.
    
    PRISMI  PRSM.MI 
    Ordinary and extraordinary shareholders' meetings (1400
GMT).
    
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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/