German stocks - Factors to watch on February 25

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25/02/2022 05:50

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The following are some
of the factors that may move German stocks on Friday:
    
    UKRAINE CRISIS
    Cutting off Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payment
system should not be part of the second EU sanctions package
against Russia that EU leaders will decide upon at a meeting on
Thursday in Brussels, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.
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    German Finance Minister Christian Lindner aims to stop the
downward trend of the country's defence budget after Russia
invaded Ukraine and the chief of the German army said he was
"fed up" with the long-running neglect of the military.
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     Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was under the
microscope over his links to Russian companies on Thursday as
three other ex-European leaders renounced board roles in protest
at Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2UZ993
    
    The United States is sending 7,000 troops to Germany to help
reassure NATO allies who are part of a larger contingent that
had already been put on alert earlier this year, a senior U.S.
defense official said.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2UZ3FI
    
    
    BASF SE  BASFn.DE 
    Full year results due.
    
    
    RWE  RWEG.DE 
    Germany's largest power producer RWE said on Thursday it is
not seeing bottlenecks in its power generation but wants to
diversify its supply portfolio as commodity markets react
strongly to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN2UZ2CI
    
    
    VOLKSWAGEN  VOWG_p.DE , PORSCHE SE  PSHG_p.DE 
    Volkswagen and its top shareholder Porsche SE on Thursday
fleshed out details of a possible listing of luxury carmaker
Porsche, edging closer to what could become one of the world's
largest stock market debuts.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2UZ3HJ
    
    
    CPI PROPERTY GROUP  O5G.DE 
    CPI Property Group said Immofinanz is to accept takeover
offer.
    
    
    SUNMIRROR AG  RORG.DE 
    SunMirror says extension of offer for takeover offer on
Latitude 66 Cobalt limited due to delay in capital increase.
    
    
    UNIPER  UN01.DE 
    Shares in German utility Uniper  UN01.DE  and largest
shareholder Fortum  FORTUM.HE , which both run substantial
businesses in Russia, plummeted on Thursday following Moscow's
move to invade Ukraine.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2UZ3R4
    
    
    FREENET AG  FNTGn.DE 
    The company said core profit (EBITDA) rose 5% in 2021.
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    EX-DIVIDEND 
    SIEMENS ENERGY AG  ENR1n.DE  - 0.10 euros/shr dividend
    
    
    ANALYSTS' VIEWS 
    NOVEM GROUP SA  NVM.DE : JP MORGAN CUTS TARGET PRICE TO EUR
14 FROM EUR 15
        
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS  
    Dow Jones  .DJI  +0.3%, S&P 500 .SPX  +1.5%, Nasdaq  .IXIC 
+3.3% at close.  .N 
    Nikkei  .N225  +1.9%, Shanghai stocks  .SSEC  +0.7%.  .T 
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    Time: 5:47 GMT

    
    ECONOMY
    German Q4 GDP due at 0700 GMT. Seen -0.7% m/m, +1.4% y/y non
seasonally adjusted, +1.4% seasonally adjusted.
    German January import prices due at 0700 GMT. Seen +1.6% m/m
+23.7% y/y.
    
    
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