Poland - Factors to Watch on Feb 4

Polski Holding Nieruchomosci SA

04/02/2014 07:02

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): 
     
    BUDIMEX BDXP.WA  
    Poland's No.1 builder, a unit of Spain's Ferrovial  FER.MC , 
signalled a record 2013 dividend payout on Monday and said it 
expected European Union-funded construction contracts to help 
return the sector to profit over the next two years. 
 ID:nL5N0L81CA  
     
    DEBT 
    Just over $41 billion was knocked off Poland's public debt 
on Monday after a long-planned transfer of assets from pension 
funds to a state vehicle was implemented, Finance Minister 
Mateusz Szczurek said.  ID:nW8N0KV004  
     
    PHN PHN.WA  
    Banks, which are to advise the state treasury with the next 
round of the privatisation process of the Polish real-estate 
group, have already selected a group of potential investors that 
may call for 100 percent of PHN's shares, daily Parkiet 
reported. 
     
    PKN ORLEN PKN.WA  
    Poland's No.1 refiner has left its upstream investment in 
the Baltic Sea near Latvia, saying the site failed to meet the 
company's expectations, daily Rzeczpospolita wrote. PKN has 
already made provisions of around 100 million zlotys for the 
failed investment, the newspaper added. 
     
    DREAMLINER 
    A computer malfunction on a Boeing  BA.N  787 Dreamliner 
forced LOT  LOT.UL  to abort a scheduled transatlantic flight 
from Warsaw late on Monday, the Polish airline said. 
 ID:nL5N0L90AX  
     
    KGHM KGH.WA  
    Europe's No.2 copper producer will appeal Poland's decision 
to award two local copper mining concessions to Canadian-owned 
MiedziCopper, daily Rzeczpospolita quoted KGHM spokesman as 
saying. 
     
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