German stocks - Factors to watch on February 27

Gerry Weber International AG

27/02/2018 06:06

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The following are some 
of the factors that may move German stocks on Tuesday: 
     
    AUTOS  BMWG.DE   DAIGn.DE   VOWG_p.DE  
    German federal court ruling due on whether German law 
provides a legal basis for cities to ban diesel cars to help 
reduce air pollution.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1QG35K 
    Geely's  GEELY.UL  acquisition of a $9 billion stake in 
Daimler is not a threat to jobs at the German carmaker, its 
human resources chief told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 
newspaper.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1QG15F 
    Also, a German parliamentary committee will on Wednesday 
question government officials on whether Geely has violated 
disclosure rules and whether loopholes in securities trading law 
need to be closed, the Stuttgarter Zeitung and Stuttgarter 
Nachrichten newspaper reported on Tuesday. 
     
    BASF  BASFn.DE  
    BASF said it was aiming for a gain of up to 10 percent in 
group operating profit this year, as an earnings rebound from 
specialty chemicals offsets declines at its basic petrochemicals 
unit.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nF9N1QB004 
     
    DEUTSCHE POST  DPWGn.DE  
    Wage talks with union Verdi continue. 
     
    E.ON  EONGn.DE , RWE  RWEG.DE , INNOGY  IGY.DE  
    E.ON is said to be interested in a takeover of RWE's stake 
in Innogy, Boersen-Zeitung reported on Tuesday. Another possible 
buyer could be a consortium led by Macquarie  MQG.AX , it said. 
    Separately, German energy industry employers including E.ON 
and union IG BCE due to hold wage talks. 
 
    FRESENIUS  FREG.DE  
    The healthcare group has raised doubts about its planned 
acquisition of Akorn  AKRX.O  because of a probe into data 
integrity at the U.S. maker of liquid generic drugs. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1QG7DM 
    Separately, Fresenius forecast lower sales this year but 
kept its 2020 financial targets and proposed a higher dividend 
for 2017. 
     
    FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE  FMEG.DE  
    The kidney dialysis business expects further growth in 
profit and sales this year after posting higher 2017 earnings, 
and set aside 200 million euros in settlement talks with U.S. 
authorities.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1QG179 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1QG1AJ 
         
    SAP  SAPG.DE  
    The business software group is targeting the customer 
relationship category to increase market share, its chief 
executive told Handelsblatt in an interview published on Monday. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1QG66L 
     
    AIRBUS  AIRG.DE  
    Vienna prosecutors are broadening their probe into a $2 
billion Eurofighter jet purchase by Austria and are 
investigating former defence minister Norbert Darabos for breach 
of trust, a spokeswoman said on Monday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1QG5XU 
     
    UNIPER  UN01.DE  
    The company said it would propose a dividend of 0.74 euros 
per share for 2017, based on expected adjusted EBIT of around 
1.1 billion euros and free cash from operations of around 361 
million euros.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASM000JQW 
     
    AIXTRON  AIXGn.DE  
    Q4 results due. Operating profit seen up 170 percent at 21.3 
million euros. Poll:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1QD2Z7 
     
    NORDEX  NDXG.DE  
    Q4 results due. EBIT seen down 96 percent at 1.8 million 
euros. Poll:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1QD515 
     
    GERRY WEBER  GWIG.DE  
    Full Q4 results due. The group reported preliminary results 
on Jan. 31, saying its EBIT came to 10.3 million euros, at the 
bottom of its forecast range of 10 to 20 million euros. 
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1PQ0F1 
     
    KWS SAAT  KWSG.DE  
    Q2 results due. 
     
    STEMMER IMAGING  S9I.DE  
    Shares due to start trading on Frankfurt stock exchange.     
         
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS   
    Dow Jones  .DJI  +1.6 pct, S&P 500 .SPX  +1.2 pct, Nasdaq 
 .IXIC  +1.2 pct at close.  .N  
    Nikkei  .N225  +1.1 pct, Shanghai stocks  .SSEC  -1.1 pct. 
    Time: 6.06 GMT.  .T   .SS  
     
    GERMAN ECONOMIC DATA 
    German preliminary inflation data for February due at 1300 
GMT. CPI seen +0.5 pct m/m, +1.5 pct y/y. HICP seen +0.6 pct 
m/m, +1.3 pct y/y. 
         
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Keywords: GERMANY STOCKS/FACTORS