Poland - Factors to Watch on Feb 11

Polski Holding Nieruchomosci SA

11/02/2014 07:11

Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which 
may affect Poland's financial markets on Tuesday. ALL TIMES GMT 
(Poland: GMT + 1 hour): 
     
    INDEX CHANGES 
    Poland's top clothes retailer LPP  LPPP.WA  and mid-sized 
lender Alior Bank  ALRR.WA  will enter the Warsaw bourse's 
 GPW.WA  blue-chip index WIG20  .WIG20 , the bourse said on 
Monday. 
    The two will replace real-estate developer GTC  GTCP.WA  and 
Citigroup's  C.N  Polish unit Bank Handlowy  BHW.WA  after the 
session on March 21. 
     
    GGE 
    Slovakian energy producer Grafobal Energy Group (GGE) has 
delayed its initial public offering (IPO) on the Warsaw bourse, 
citing unfavourable market conditions, GGE said on Monday. 
 ID:nL5N0LF3PG  
     
    DATA 
    Poland's statistics office will publish foreign trade data 
for the January-December 2013 period at 1300 GMT.  ECONPL  
     
    DEBT ISSUE 
    Poland's finance ministry is to publish supply details for 
its Thursday debt auction at 1400 GMT. 
     
    KGHM KGH.WA  
    Europe's second-biggest copper producer is expected to 
suffer a 30 percent fall in net profit this year, hit by weak 
global copper prices, a Reuters survey showed.  ID:nL5N0LF1PG  
     
    REAL ESTATE 
    Belgian real estate developer Ghelamco and private equity 
firm Lone Star (the largest shareholder of Warsaw-based 
developer GTC  GTCP.WA ) are among investors potentially 
interested in buying Poland's state-controlled real estate group 
PHN  PHN.WA , Parkiet daily reported without naming its sources. 
     
    COAL 
    The European Union's largest coking coal producer JSW 
 JSW.WA  ended 2013 with a consolidated profit, despite a slump 
in coal prices, its chief executive officer Jaroslaw Zagorowski 
was quoted as saying by daily Parkiet on Tuesday. 
     
    MOVING ABROAD    
    As many as 0.5 million Poles may have left the country in 
2013 even though Poland's economy remained in relatively good 
shape, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna wrote. Great Britain, Germany, the 
Netherlands and Norway were the main destinations for Poles last 
year.     
     
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 Polish equities        PL-E      E.Europe equities      .CEE  
 Polish money           PL-M      Polish debt            PL-D   
 Eastern Europe         EEU       All emerging markets   EMRG  
 Hot stocks             HOT       Stock markets          STX  
 Market debt news       DBT       Forex news             FRX  
  
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 Warsaw WIG20  .WIG20   Budapest BUX  .BUX   Prague PX  .PX