Italy - Factors to watch on April 23

Valsoia SpA

23/04/2015 05:00

The following factors could affect Italian markets on Thursday. 
    Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot  
vouch for their accuracy. New items are marked with (*). 
     
    For a complete list of diary events in Italy please click on 
 IT/DIA . 
     
    ECONOMY 
    ISTAT releases March wage inflation data (0800 GMT) and 
March extra EU foreign trade data (0900 GMT). 
     
    TREASURY 
    Italy's Treasury announces sale of 6-month BOT bills, with 
relative amounts to be auctioned on April 28. 
     
    COMPANIES 
    ENI  ENI.MI  
    Standard & Poor's said on Wednesday it had cut Italian oil 
major's long-term rating by one notch to 'A-', citing 
expectations of lower cash-flow generation.  ID:nI6N0WY02A  
     
    MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA  BMPS.MI  
    Credit rating agency Moody's said on Wednesday it cut the 
Italian lender's deposit and senior debt ratings to B3 from B1. 
 ID:nI6N0WY02B   
     
    ENEL  ENEI.MI  
    A dispute between Slovakia's government and Enel over the 
Italian company's sale of its 66 percent stake in a Slovak 
utility is making it less likely Czech electricity group CEZ 
 CEZP.PR  will bid by a May deadline, a CEZ board member said on 
Wednesday.  ID:nL5N0XJ3J3  
    The board of the utility agreed upon the possibility for 
Enersis and Chilectra units to study a reorganization to 
separate power generation and distribution activities in Chile 
from those in the other Latin America countries, the group said 
in a statement on Wednesday.  
     
    TELECOM ITALIA  TLIT.MI  
    The Italian phone company can have a majority stake in 
broadband firm Metroweb providing it accepts proper governance 
conditions and other phone operators as shareholders, a key 
Metroweb shareholder said on Wednesday.  ID:nL5N0XJ4OQ  
     
    UNICREDIT  CRDI.MI  
    Italy's biggest bank by assets and Santander  SAN.MC  have 
agreed to merge their asset management businesses in a deal 
where the Spanish bank will have no direct involvement in the 
new group's U.S. operations, three sources close to the matter 
said.  ID:nL5N0XJ4GF  
     
    EI TOWERS  EIT.MI , RAI WAY  RWAY.MI  
    The board of EI Tower has rubber-stamped a decision to drop 
an unsolicited bid worth up 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to 
take over the state-controlled rival.  ID:nI6N0WY025  
     
    ITALCEMENTI  ITAI.MI  
    U.S. unit of Italcementi Essroc has signed an agreement with 
Holcim  HOLN.VX  to purchase a slag cement grinding facility in 
Camden, New Jersey. As part of the transaction, Essroc will also 
obtain Holcim cement terminal in Everett, Massachusetts, the 
Italian cement maker said.  
     
    GRUPPO EDITORIALE L'ESPRESSO  ESPI.MI  
    Annual general meeting (0900 GMT) and board meeting on Q1 
results. 
     
    BANCA CARIGE  CRGI.MI ; BANCA GENERALI  BGN.MI ; EXPRIVIA 
 XPR.MI ; FINECOBANK  FBK.MI ; MONCLER  MONC.MI ; VALSOIA 
 VALS.MI ;  
    Annual and extraordinary shareholder meeting 
     
    ACEA  ACE.MI ; ANSALDO STS  STS.MI ; ARNOLDO MONDADORI 
EDITORE  MOED.MI ; ASCOPIAVE  ASCI.MI ; ASTALDI  AST.MI ; BE 
 BET.MI ; BREMBO  BRBI.MI ; BRUNELLO CUCINELLI  BCU.MI ; CEMBRE 
 CEMB.MI ; EMAK  EM.MI ; EXPRIVIA  XPR.MI ; IL SOLE 24 ORE 
 S24.MI ; PANARIAGROUP  PAGR.MI ; RATTI  RATI.MI ; RCS 
MEDIAGROUP  RCSM.MI ; REPLY  REY.MI ; SEAT PAGINE GIALLE 
 PGIT.MI ; SOFT STRATEGY  YSF.MI ; VIANINI INDUSTRIA  VINI.MI  
    Annual General Meeting. 
 
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    For Italian market data and news, click on codes in  
brackets: 
 
    20 biggest gainers (in percentage)............ .PG.MI  
    20 biggest losers (in percentage)............. .PL.MI  
    FTSE IT allshare index  .FTITLMS  
    FTSE Mib index........  .FTMIB  
    FTSE Allstars index...  .FTSTAR  
    FTSE Mid Cap index....  .FTITMC  
    Block trades..........  .BLK.MI  
    Stories on Italy......  IT-LEN  
     
    For pan-European market data and news, click on codes in  
 brackets: 
  European Equities speed guide................... EUR/EQUITY  
  FTSEurofirst 300 index.............................. .FTEU3  
  DJ STOXX index...................................... .STOXX  
  Top 10 STOXX sectors........................... .PGL.STOXXS  
  Top 10 EUROSTOXX sectors...................... .PGL.STOXXES  
  Top 10 Eurofirst 300 sectors................... .PGL.FTEU3S  
  Top 25 European pct gainers....................... .PG.PEUR  
  Top 25 European pct losers........................ .PL.PEUR  
  
  Main stock markets: 
  Dow Jones............... .DJI   Wall Street report ..... .N  
  Nikkei 225............. .N225   Tokyo report............ .T  
  FTSE 100............... .FTSE   London report........... .L  
  Xetra DAX............. .GDAXI   Frankfurt market stories .F  
  CAC-40................. .FCHI   Paris market stories... .PA  
  World Indices..................................... 0#.INDEX  
  Reuters survey of world bourse outlook......... EQUITYPOLL1  
  Western European IPO diary.......................... WEUIPO  
  European Asset Allocation........................ EUR/ASSET  
  Reuters News at a Glance: Equities............... TOP/EQE  
  Main currency report:............................... FRX/  
 
 
Keywords: ITALY FACTORS/APRIL 23