Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on April 7

                                
 PRAGUE, April 7 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial
markets on Monday:
                                
 ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 1 hours)

 ======================== ECONOMIC DATA ========================
                                
 Real-time economic data releases....................<ECONCZ>
                                
 Previous stories on Czech data.............[CZ-RTRS-LEN-ECI]
                                
 Overview of economic data and forecasts..........<CZ/ECON15>
                                
 Updates on Czech currency.............................[CZK/]
                                
 
========================= EVENTS ===============================
                                
 PRAGUE - Roundtable with Cypriot central bank Governor and
European Central Bank Governing Council member Athanasios
Orphanides on euro adoption in Cyprus (0800 GMT).
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ECB]
                                
 
                                
 PRAGUE - February foreign trade at 0700 GMT. Analysts polled
by Reuters had forecast a monthly trade surplus of 12.8 billion
Czech crowns ($803.3 million) in February.
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-TRD]
                                
 
                                
 PRAGUE - March foreign exchange reserves data at 0800 GMT.
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-CEN]

========================= TOP NEWS =============================
                                
 RADAR BATTLE: A Czech junior government party called on its
deputies to vote against a plan to build a U.S. radar in the
central European country, CTK news agency reported on Saturday,
raising the possibility the project may not get through
parliament.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL05109273] [RTRS-LEN-CZ-US]
                                
 
                                
 CONFIDENCE VOTE: A Czech leading opposition party called on
the government on Friday to step down if it fails to push
through parliament a plan to site a U.S. missile defence radar
in the country.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL04263921] [RTRS-LEN-CZ-US]
================== ELSEWHERE IN NEWS ===========================
                                
 TEMELIN LAUNCH DELAYED: Czech power firm CEZ <CEZPsp.PR>
said on Friday it will extend again the shutdown of the
1,000-megawatt Unit 1 at its Temelin nuclear power plant,
delaying its restart to the end of next week due to additional
repairs.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL04892836] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ELG]
 
 ---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
 Index/Crown Currency  Latest    Prev    Pct change   Pct change
                                
                              close   on day       in 2008
 Czech Equities  <.PX> 1,565.5  1,569.1   -0.23        -13.75
 vs Euro     <EURCZK=>  25.085   25.095   +0.04         +5.64
 vs Dollar      <CZK=>  16.024   15.924   -0.48        +13.56
 U.S. Equities  <.DJI>  12,609   12,626   -0.13         -4.94
 Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1500
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 Reuters has not verified the media reports, nor does it
vouch for their accuracy.
                                
 
 ====================== PRESS DIGEST ===========================
                                
 ELECTRICITY PRICES: Czech power firm CEZ <CEZPsp.PR> wants
to build more natural gas-fired plants, expecting electricity
prices to rise by 30 percent in six years, Trading Director Alan
Svoboda said. The plants should account by one fifth on CEZ's
power generation by 2013.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 19
 
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 (Compiled by Martin Dokoupil)