Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Dec 29

Philip Morris CR as

29/12/2017 07:36

PRAGUE, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press 
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial 
markets on Friday. 
            
    ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 1 hours)          
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    Real-time economic data releases.................... ECONCZ  
    Summary of economic data and forecasts........... CZ/ECON01  
    Recently released economic data.................. CZ/ECON15  
    Previous stories on Czech data............. CZ-RTRS-LEN-ECI  
  **For a schedule of corporate and economic events:  
    http://emea1.apps.cp.thomsonreuters.com/Apps/CountryWeb/#/2E/events-overview 
  
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    CEZ: Czech power utility CEZ  CEZP.PR  is in talks with 
several parties interested in buying a stake in its engineering 
and construction unit Skoda Praha, a spokesman said on Thursday. 
    Story:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1OS1OZ Related stories:  RTRS-LEN-CZ-ELEU  
     
    SKODA PRAHA: Montenegro's power utility EPCG  EPCG.MOT  has 
ended a deal with Skoda Praha, a unit of Czech power firm CEZ 
 CEZP.PR , for the construction of a new coal-fired power plant 
due to Skoda Praha's failure to secure funding, EPCG said on 
Thursday. 
    Story:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1OS1FB Related stories:  RTRS-LEN-CEEU-ELEU  
     
    CEZ ESCO: Core earnings before interest, tax, depreciation 
and amortisation (EBITDA) at CEZ's  CEZP.PR  energy service 
provider ESCO unit should rise to around 300 million crowns 
($14.02 million) in 2017, from 243 million crowns last year, the 
unit's chief executive told CTK news agency in an interview. 
    Story:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1OS2KJ Related stories:  RTRS-LEN-CZ-ELEU  
     
    CROWN: The Czech crown  EURCZK=  jumped over 1 percent 
against the euro on Thursday, rebounding from a sharp drop in 
the previous session when end-of-year accounting of banks' 
balance sheets had made it more expensive to hold the currency. 
    Story:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1OS0RS Related stories:  RTRS-LEN-CZ-FRX  
     
    CEE MARKETS: The Czech crown led a firming of Central 
European currencies on Thursday, rebounding from a fall on 
Wednesday caused by year-end balance sheet management by banks. 
    Story:  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1OS18Z Related stories:  RTRS-LEN-CEEU-FRX  
***For real-time stock market index quotes click in brackets: 
   Warsaw WIG20  .WIG20  Budapest BUX  .BUX  Prague PX  .PX  
    For updates on CEE currencies                        CEE/  
    TOP NEWS -- Emerging markets                     TOP/EMRG  
=========================PRESS DIGEST========================== 
    PHILIP MORRIS: Production at tobacco group Philip Morris 
CR's  TABK.PR  Kutna Hora plant grew around 20 percent this year 
as it absorbs production from other plants in the international 
group that switched to Heets cigarettes. 
    There are no plans for the Czech plant to start producing 
heat-not-burn IQOS cigarette technology at the moment, the 
Prague-listed firm's Chief Executive Arpad Konye said. 
    Hospodarske Noviny, page 15  
     
  (Reuters has not verified the stories, nor does it vouch for 
their accuracy.)     
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Keywords: CZECH FACTORS/