German stocks - Factors to watch on April 14

Gerry Weber International AG

14/04/2016 06:23

FRANKFURT/BERLIN, April 14 (Reuters) - The following are 
some of the factors that may move German stocks on Thursday: 
     
    ALLIANZ  ALVG.DE  
    Pacific Investment Management Co's (Pimco) assets under 
management stood at $1.5 trillion at the end of March, up from 
$1.43 trillion at the end of 2015, the first increase in nearly 
two years, the bond fund manager said on Wednesday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N17G202 
     
    DEUTSCHE BANK  DBKGn.DE  
    Britain's Legal & General Group PLC  LGEN.L  and Swiss Re AG 
 SRENH.S  are among firms said to be weighing bids for Deutsche 
Bank AG's Abbey Life Assurance Co, sources familiar with the 
matter said.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N17G4SK 
    Separately, the lender has agreed to settle U.S. litigation 
over allegations it illegally conspired with Bank of Nova Scotia 
 HSBA.L  and HSBC Holdings Plc  HSBA.L  to fix silver prices at 
the expense of investors, a court filing on Wednesday showed. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N17G2FS 
     
    LUFTHANSA  LHAG.DE  
    Families of those killed on a Germanwings flight last year 
have sued a training unit of parent Lufthansa in a U.S. district 
court in Arizona for wrongful death, their law firm said on 
Wednesday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N17G1FG 
     
    VOLKSWAGEN  VOWG_p.DE  
    The carmaker dismissed as wrong a report by a group of 
German media outlets that the company's executive board members 
had offered to have their bonuses slashed by 50 percent. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N17G2TC 
     
    PATRIZIA IMMOBILIEN  P1ZGn.DE   
    Matthias Moser, a key deal maker at Patricia, has been 
dismissed from the German real estate group in a dispute over 
its future strategy, a company spokesman said late on Wednesday. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N17G4M8 
    Separately, the real estate company said Thursday it had 
acquired a retail real estate portfolio for 320 million euros. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASM00036W  
         
    STRATEC BIOMEDICAL  SBSG.DE   
    Full Q4 results due. The lab equipment supplier published 
preliminary results on March 15 and slashed its medium-term 
sales forecast, citing weak business in China.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N16O1EX 
     
    QIAGEN  QGEN.DE  
    The company said it was partnering with Mirati Therapeutics 
to develop a novel companion diagnostic for lung cancer. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN17G0EW 
     
    ROCKET INTERNET  RKET.DE  
    Q4 results and Capital Markets Day due. 
     
    SOFTWARE AG  SOWG.DE  
    The company may be able to raise its guidance in the summer 
if its first-quarter performance holds up, Boersen-Zeitung 
reported on Thursday, citing the firm's finance chief. 
     
    ENBW  EBKG.DE   
    A contractor working at EnBW's Philippsburg nuclear reactor 
in south western Germany faked routine checks of a radiation 
meter, the utility said late on Wednesday, adding it was 
investigating the matter.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N17G58Z 
     
    ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS 
    GERRY WEBER  GWIG.DE  - 0.40 eur/shr dividend proposed 
    MTU AERO ENGINES  MTXGn.DE  - 1.70 eur/shr dividend proposed 
         
    EX-DIVIDEND  
    AXEL SPRINGER  SPRGn.DE  - dividend 1.80 eur/shr 
     
    ANALYSTS' VIEWS  
    SOFTWARE AG  SOWG.DE  - Barclays cuts to "underweight" from 
"equal weight" 
    SALZGITTER  SZGG.DE  - RBC raises to "outperform" from 
"sector perform" 
    NEMETSCHEK AG  NEKG.DE  - HSBC starts with "buy" rating, 53 
euros price target  
         
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS   
    Dow Jones  .DJI  +1.1 pct, S&P 500 .SPX  +1.0 pct,   .N  
    Nikkei  .N225  +2.7 pct, Shanghai stocks  .SSEC  unchanged. 
    Time: 5.06 GMT.  .T   .SS  
     
    GERMAN ECONOMIC DATA 
    No economic data scheduled. 
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    DIARIES  DE/DIA   WEU/EQUITY  
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 (Reporting by Ludwig Burger, Andreas Cremer and Victoria Bryan) 
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Keywords: GERMANY STOCKS/FACTORS