Italy - Factors to watch on Sept. 20

EPH Invest SpA

20/09/2019 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 .
           
    DEBT
    Treasury announces sale of CTZ and BTPei bonds, with
relative amounts to be auctioned on Sept. 25.
    
    COMPANIES
    
    MEDIASET  MS.MI 
    Mediaset  MS.MI  had reached an agreement with an investor
to facilitate its plan to create a pan European platform, the
company said on Thursday, in a move to offset any potential
attempt to derail the deal from hostile shareholder
Vivendi. L5N26A6B1 
    
    BANCA CARIGE  CRGI.MI 
    Thousands of small shareholders in Carige have signed up to
attend a meeting on Friday in an attempt to push through a
last-ditch rescue plan that could be sunk by the Italian bank's
mercurial top investor.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N2674QD
    
    OVS  OVS.MI 
    The Italian high-street retailer on Thursday posted a 37%
drop in adjusted operating profit for the six months to July 31
on a 4% fall in like-for-like sales, blaming unusually cold
weather in April-May which delayed purchases of summer clothes.
    OVS said it had renegotiated a financing agreement with
banks extending its maturity to March 2023 and slightly reducing
its ceiling to 450 million euros. Rothschild advised OVS.
    
    LAZIO  LAZI.MI 
    The Rome-based club reported a loss of 13.2 million euros in
its 2018/2018 full-year results, compared to a profit of 38.3
million euro in the previous period, the company said on
Thursday. 
    
    EPRICE  EPRC.MI 
    The online retailer said on Thursday it had started
exclusive negotiations on a potential investment of Omni Partner
under a capital strenghtening plan of the company.
    
    JUVENTUS  JUVE.MI 
    Board meeting on FY results.
    
    
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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/