German stocks - Factors to watch on December 9

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09/12/2015 06:11

BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The following are some 
of the factors that may move German stocks on Wednesday: 
     
    GLOBAL ECONOMY 
    China's consumer inflation picked up slightly in November 
but remained well under the government's 2015 price target of 3 
percent, raising concerns that the world's no. 2 economy could 
be sucked into a Japan-style deflationary trap.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nIFR7nM46T 
     
    ALLIANZ  ALVG.DE   
    Global investment management firm Pimco is adding 
energy-related securities to some of its portfolios as the 
Newport Beach, California firm expects an increase in oil prices 
over the next 12 months, Dan Ivascyn, group chief investment 
officer, said in an interview on Tuesday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N13X1NH 
     
    BAYER  BAYGn.DE   
    European and U.S. drug safety agencies are looking into 
whether a defective blood-clotting test device affected a trial 
involving Bayer's anti-blood clotting drug Xarelto, they said on 
Tuesday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N13X3TK 
     
    DEUTSCHE BANK  DBKGn.DE   
    Fitch on Tuesday downgraded Deutsche Bank to 'A-'; Outlook 
Stable.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFit943189 
     
    LUFTHANSA  LHAG.DE  
    November traffic figures due at 1200 GMT. 
 
    VOLKSWAGEN  VOWG_p.DE  
    Supervisory board due to hold an out-of-sequence meeting to 
discuss the state of investigations as well as luxury division 
Audi, where 3.0 litre V6 diesel engines were also equipped with 
illegal emissions-control software. 
    The head of Audi said on Tuesday that the carmaker has found 
simple technical fixes for luxury diesel vehicles fitted with 
software found to have enabled engines to evade U.S. emissions 
limits.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N13X34H 
    Also, more than 500 civil lawsuits filed against Volkswagen 
AG over the use of software to evade emissions limits will be 
heard by a federal judge in California, a U.S. judicial panel 
said on Tuesday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N13X2J3 
     
    CHEMICALS  BASFn.DE   BAYGn.DE   EVKn.DE  
    Industry group VCI due to hold press conference. 
    Separately, people familiar with the matter told Reuters 
that Dow Chemical Co  DOW.N  and DuPont  DD.N  are in talks to 
merge, creating a chemicals giant with a market value of more 
than $120 billion that could then break up into different 
businesses.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N13Y029 
         
    AAREAL BANK  ARLG.DE   
    The company slightly increased its consolidated operating 
profit forecast for the full year 2015 to between 460 million 
euros and 470 million euros ($502-513 million) and said it sold 
unit Aqvatrium AB.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nWNAB09D8Q 
     
    AXEL SPRINGER  SPRGn.DE  
    Capital Markets Day due. 
     
    MLP  MLPG.DE  
    MLP's management is suing Carsten Maschmayer and could claim 
back 4 million euros of dividends the financial services company 
paid out to the self-made billionaire, German daily Handelsblatt 
reported, citing no sources. 
     
    OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS   
    Dow Jones  .DJI  -0.9 pct, S&P 500 .SPX  -0.7 pct, Nasdaq 
 .IXIC  -0.1 pct at close.  .N  
    Nikkei  .N225  -1 pct, Shanghai stocks  .SSEC  unchanged. 
    Time: 6.10 GMT.  .T   .SS  
     
    GERMAN ECONOMIC DATA 
    German October trade balance due at 0700 GMT. Seen at 20.0 
bln euros vs 19.4 bln, with exports -0.5 pct m/m (seasonally 
adjusted), imports -1.0 pct. 
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($1 = 0.9167 euros) 
 
 (Reporting by Victoria Bryan and Maria Sheahan) 
 ((maria.sheahan@thomsonreuters.com; +49 69 7565 1286; Reuters 
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Keywords: GERMANY STOCKS/FACTORS