Poland - Factors to Watch June 30

Primetech SA

30/06/2016 07:01

Following are news stories, press reports and events to watch 
that may affect Poland's financial markets on Thursday. ALL 
TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 2 hours): 
    
    DATA  ECONPL  
    Polish statistics office will release June flash CPI data at 
1200 GMT. At the same time the central bank will publish CPI 
expectations. 
     
    DEBT SUPPLY 
    Poland's finance ministry will present debt supply details 
for the third quarter at 1300 GMT on Thursday. 
     
    PZU, PKO  PZU.WA   PKO.WA  
    Shareholders at Poland's biggest insurance firm PZU and the 
No.1 Polish bank PKO BP - both state-run - will decide on 2015 
dividend at shareholders meetings on Thursday. 
     
    JSW  JSW.WA  
    Poland's coking coal miner JSW agreed to sell its coking 
plant WZK Victoria to state-run TF Silesia fund and Poland's 
Industrial Development Agency ARP for 350 million zlotys ($88 
million), JSW said late on Wednesday. 
     
    KOPEX  KPX.WA  
    Polish mining equipment maker Kopex wants to close its 
foreign subsidiaries, sell some of its projects and conduct 
lay-offs to counter the fallout of lower commodity prices, which 
led miners to scale down production, daily Puls Biznesu 
reported. 
     
    GE  GE.N  
    Polish investment fund Altus TFI is in exclusive talks to 
buy BPH TFI, the last local asset of the U.S. General Electric, 
which earlier this year agreed to sell its lender BPH  BPHP.WA , 
dailies Puls Biznesu and Parkiet reported. 
     
    BANKS 
    If Polish banks make good on their financial plans, the 
sector's joint net profit should fall by around 10 percent this 
year, Wojciech Kwasniak, deputy head of the Polish financial 
regulator KNF, told daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. 
     
    EU 
    81 percent of Poles want Poland to remain in the European 
Union (EU), with only 13 percent opting out, a poll by TNS for 
daily Gazeta Wyborcza showed. 
     
    ****Reuters has not verified these stories and does not 
vouch for their accuracy.**** 
     
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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  
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