Italy - Factors to watch on Feb. 1

Lifestyle SPA

01/02/2019 05:00

MILANO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - 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 .
    
    POLITICS
    Italy's Economy Minister Giovanni Tria on Thursday said the
country's response its decline into recession in the second half
of last year must be to increase public investment, adding that
all European Union countries should seek to bolster growth.
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    ECONOMY
    HIS Markit releases January PMI manufacturing (0845 GMT).
    Transport Ministry releases January car sales data (1700
GMT).
    January state sector borrowing requirement data.
    
    COMPANIES
    AUTOGRILL  AGL.MI 
    Edizione, the holding company of the Benetton family, has
proposed that Goldman Sachs executive Paolo Zannoni become
chairman of Italy's Autogrill, the travel caterer said on
Thursday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nS8N1ZG03L
    
    FERRARI  RACE.MI 
    Ferrari expects growth in core earnings to accelerate to 10
percent this year and Chief Executive Louis Camilleri said he
might raise targets for 2020, betting on new models and special
editions at premium prices to lure customers.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N1ZV6NR
    
    LAZIO  LAZI.MI 
    Italian soccer club Lazio said on Thursday it has signed an
agreement to loan Caldeira from Genoa.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N1ZV74R
    
    LEONARDO  LDOF.MI 
    Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), junior partners in
Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, are putting the
brakes on plans to buy some U.S. warplanes as part of broader
plans to replace the German military's 85 ageing Tornado fighter
jets. 
    Sources familiar with the process say the ministry wanted to
split the order between the Eurofighter Typhoon - built by
Airbus  AIR.PA , Britain's BAE Systems  BAES.L  and Italy's
Leonardo SpA  LDOF.MI  - and the U.S.-built Lockheed Martin
 LMT.N  F-35, or potentially the Boeing BA.N F/A-18.
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    INTESA SANPAOLO  ISP.MI 
    Albania's Competition Authority said on Thursday it will
investigate whether the country's four biggest banks restricted
competition from 2016 to 2018. Turkish-owned National Commercial
Bank, the subsidiaries of Austria's Raiffeisen  RBIV.VI  and
Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo and Albanian-owned Credins Bank control
68 percent of the Albanian market.
    
    FIAT CHRYSLER  FCHA.MI 
    Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said Thursday it was cancelling
two additional shifts at its Warren Truck and Sterling Heights
Assembly plants after CMS Energy Corp  CMS.N  made an emergency
appeal to users to conserve natural gas following a fire at a
compressor station and during extreme winter cold.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N1ZV19R
    
    LONGINO & CARDENAL  LON.MI 
    Presents 2019 news (1600 GMT), followed by meeting with CEO
Riccardo Uleri in Milan (1830 GMT).
    
    WM CAPITAL  WMC.MI 
    Ordinary shareholders' meeting (1130 GMT).
    
    Board meetings on preliminary FY results: AEFFE  AEF.MI 
(revenues); CERVED GROUP  CERV.MI .
    
    DIARY
    Milan, Cattolica University holds round-table discission on
"Holders of Managerial Power: Myths and Reality of the Boards of
Directors" with Cattolica Assicurazioni  CASS.MI  CEO Alberto
Minali, Snam  SRG.MI  General Counsel Marco Reggiani (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/ 

 (Reporting By Viviana Venturi)
 ((viviana.venturi@thomsonreuters.com;))