German stocks - Factors to watch on March 30
30/03/2015 06:08
FRANKFURT, March 30 (Reuters) - The following are some of
the factors that may move German stocks on Monday:
IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS
Iran and six world powers tried to break an impasse in
nuclear negotiations on Sunday, but officials cautioned that
attempts to reach a preliminary deal by a deadline in two days
could yet fall apart. ID:nL6N0WV09H
GREECE
Greece sounded an upbeat tone on Sunday over talks with its
European and IMF creditors, which it said were continuing
through the weekend as the cash-strapped country races to agree
on reforms that will unlock more aid. ID:nL6N0WV0LW
DEUTSCHE BANK DBKGn.DE
Citigroup analysts said Deutsche Bank was among the
best-placed banks to benefit from a boost in trading activity
under the European Central Bank's (ECB) trillion-euro
quantitative easing (QE) programme. ID:nL6N0WR35Z
BASF BASFn.DE
BASF said on Friday its oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall
will be headed by Mario Mehren after incumbent Rainer Seele was
named chief executive of Austria's OMV OMVV.VI .
ID:nFWN0WT03L
E.ON EONGn.DE
Credit rating agency Moody's downgraded E.ON to Baa1 from
A3, citing continuing headwinds that the utility faces in its
domestic and international businesses. ID:nMDY8L9WQs
LUFTHANSA LHAG.DE
Lufthansa has offered to pay up to 50,000 euros ($54,435) in
immediate financial assistance per passenger on the crashed
plane of its subsidiary Germanwings, a spokeswoman told Reuters
on Friday. ID:nL6N0WT4HJ
A German newspaper said on Saturday the co-pilot of the
plane had told his girlfriend he was planning a spectacular
gesture so "everyone will know my name". ID:nL6N0WU0C2
A paper said on Sunday the co-pilot may have been suffering
from a detached retina, but investigators are unsure whether his
vision problems had physical or psychological causes.
ID:nL6N0WV0HL
SAP SAPG.DE
Cloud software company Salesforce.com Inc CRM.N aims to
overtake SAP in terms of sales on the German company's home
market in the coming years, the Europe chief of Salesforce told
a German magazine. ID:nL6N0WU070
AIRBUS AIRG.DE
An Air Canada AC.TO plane that suffered heavy damage in an
accident in the east coast city of Halifax on Sunday landed
short of the runway and hit an antenna array, losing its landing
gear, safety officials said. Air Canada said the Airbus A320
flying from Toronto was carrying 133 passengers and five crew
members. ID:nL2N0WV07K
TUI TUIGn.SW , CTS EVENTIM EVDG.DE , WESTGRUND WEG1.DE
German concert ticket vendor CTS Eventim EVDG.DE will
enter Germany's mid-cap index .MDAXI , replacing TUI AG
TUIGn.DE , from April 1.
Shares of real estate company Westgrund AG WEG1.DE will be
included in the SDAX .SDAXI and replace the shares of CTS,
Deutsche Boerse DB1Gn.DE said in a statement on Friday.
FREENET FNTGn.DE
The telecoms provider expects its financing costs to fall by
more than 20 million euros when its 400-million-euro bond with a
coupon of 7.125 percent matures next year, its finance chief
Joachim Preisig told Boersen-Zeitung in an interview.
GRAMMER GMMG.DE
The automotive supplier proposed to increase its dividend 15
percent to 0.75 euro per share. ID:nASN0007EO
HHLA HHFGn.DE
Annual report due. The port logistics firm published
preliminary results on Feb. 5, with EBIT rising to 169 million
euros. ID:nASN0006FX
SKY DEUTSCHLAND SKYDn.DE
Parent Sky's SKYB.L CEO Jeremy Darroch said he saw no
reason why Sky Deutschland couldn't turn a profit "in the near
future". He also said Sky would throw its hat in the ring for
the next round of Bundesliga broadcast rights. ID:nL6N0WV0E6
EX-DIVIDEND
VILLEROY & BOCH VIBG_p.DE - dividend 0.44 eur/shr
OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS
Dow Jones .DJI +0.2 pct, S&P 500 .SPX +0.2 pct, Nasdaq
.IXIC +0.6 pct at Friday's close. ID:nL2N0WT27A
Nikkei .N225 +0.8 pct at 0507 GMT. ID:nL3N0WW18T
GERMAN ECONOMIC DATA
German March inflation data due at 1200 GMT. CPI seen +0.4
pct m/m, +0.3 pct y/y. HICP seen +0.4 pct m/m, +0.1 pct y/y.
Also, German unions and public employers agreed on a
two-stage pay rise of more than 4 percent for state workers late
on Saturday, in a further wage agreement that is expected to
boost private spending in Europe's largest economy this year.
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