Poland - Factors to Watch Jan 8

Primetech SA

08/01/2016 07:11

Following are news stories, press reports and events to watch 
that may affect Poland's financial markets on Friday. ALL TIMES 
GMT (Poland: GMT + 1 hour): 
         
    TAXES 
    Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, economy minister Mateusz 
Morawiecki and finance minister Pawel Szalamacha will hold a 
debate on Poland's planned supermarket tax at 1000 GMT. 
     
    EURO 
    Starting from Jan 1, the Polish government no longer 
includes a post of a euro plenipotentiary and will not publish 
the monthly convergence reports, daily Rzeczpospolita reported. 
     
    ORANGE OPL.WA       
    The Polish unit of the French telecoms group Orange 
 ORAN.PA  expects charges related to its labour agreements to 
cut its fourth-quarter gross profit by 92 million zlotys ($23.1 
million), the unit said on Thursday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N14R322 
     
    DEFENSE 
    Poland will spend over 10 billion zlotys ($2.50 billion) on 
military investments, but plans to verify the spending's 
efficiency, daily Rzeczpospolita reported. 
    Poland's foreign affairs minister Witold Waszczykowski told 
daily Nasz Dziennik that the planned NATO bases in Poland would 
be of a rotary character. 
         
    COAL MINING 
    Polish mining gear producer Kopex  KPX.WA , as well as 
Australian miner Prairie Mining  PDZ.AX  and the unit of its 
German rival HMS Bergbau  HMUG.DE  plan to invest in new coal 
mines in Poland, daily Rzeczpospolita reported. 
 
    PZU PZU.WA  
    Former deputy treasury minister as well as director at the 
World Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Michal Krupinski 
will probably be the new chief executive at Eastern Europe's 
largest insurer, the state-controlled PZU PZU.WA , daily Gazeta 
Wyborcza reported. 
     
    ****Reuters has not verified these stories and does not 
vouch for their accuracy.**** 
     
    For other related news, double click on: 
 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  
  
 For real-time index quotes, double click on: 
 Warsaw WIG20  .WIG20   Budapest BUX  .BUX   Prague PX  .PX  
 
($1 = 3.9967 zlotys) 
 
 
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