PRAGUE, April 15 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial
markets on Thursday.
ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 2 hours)
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PRAGUE - The lower house of parliament to hold a session.
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PRAGUE - Czech central bank governing board to hold a
regular weekly meeting. It is not scheduled to discuss monetary
policy issues.
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PRAGUE - Czech President Vaclav Klaus to meet his Portuguese
counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva. News conference at 0945 GMT.
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CEE MARKETS: The Czech crown hit a seven-month peak and
Hungary's forint climbed to one-month highs on Wednesday,
tracking global equities, while the zloty rose as intervention
fears eased.
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POLLS: The leftist Czech Social Democrats will win the May
28-29 election but small centrist parties may take enough seats
to make forming a government difficult, an opinion poll showed
on Wednesday.
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NWR SHARES JUMP: Miner New World Resources (NWR) <NWRS.L>
<NWRSsp.PR> has raised its 2010 output target and agreed a 87
percent year-on-year price rise on most of its coking coal
contracts for the next year, pushing shares to 19-month peaks on
Wednesday.
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ORCO CHALLENGE: A major shareholder in Orco Property Group
<ORCO.PA> <> has gone to a Luxembourg court in an
attempt to cancel the deeply indebted real estate developer's
two recent capital hikes.
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EUROBOND: Preliminary demand for a planned Czech eurobond is
solid and a recent private sector issue set a good benchmark for
pricing, Finance Minister Eduard Janota said on Wednesday.
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Index/Crown Currency Latest Prev Pct change Pct change
close on day in 2010
Czech Equities <> -- 1293.6 3.08 15.78
vs Euro <EURCZK=> 25.056 25.06 0.02 4.8
vs Dollar <CZK=> 18.378 18.365 -0.07 -0.01
U.S. Equities <> 11123.11 11019.42 0.94 6.67
Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1500 GMT
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CBANKER HOLMAN ON CPI TARGETS: Central banker Robert Holman
said central banks do not need to raise inflation targets in the
future, but should widen price indices to take house prices into
account.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 24
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