Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Oct 6

                                
 PRAGUE, Oct 6 (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 + 2 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 - Car Importers' Association (SDA) to hold a news
conference on nine-month passenger car registrations (1200
GMT).    
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-AUT]
========================= TOP NEWS ============================
                                
 POOR HUNGARY, CZECH DATA CLOUD OUTLOOK: The Czech Republic
and Hungary posted poor trade data on Friday, illustrating a
bleak outlook for growth in the two catch-up central European
economies as demand in western markets sags.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL3229191] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ECI]

                                
 CZECH TEMELIN TO EXTEND UNIT 1 OUTAGE: Czech nuclear power
plant Temelin will extend its planned outage of Unit 1 by
roughly one week due to unplanned works on a water technical
system, the plant's owner CEZ <CEZPsp.PR> said.   
                                
 Story: [ID:nL3237278] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-NUC]

                                
 EXPORT DROP POINTS TO ECON WEAKNESS, RATE CUT: The Czech
foreign trade balance remained in surplus in August, but a slump
in exports pointed to economic weakness ahead due to poor demand
in the euro zone and raised chances of an interest rate cut in
the near future.    
                                
 Story: [ID:nL2438160] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ECI]
                                
 
                                
 CZECH GROWTH MAY DROP BELOW FCAST: Czech economic growth may
drop below the central bank's forecast due to the poor outlook
for external demand, the bank said in the minutes of its Sept.
25 policy meeting released.
                                
 Story: [ID:nPRG001038] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-CEN]
 ---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
 Index/Crown Currency  Latest    Prev    Pct change   Pct change
                                
                              close   on day       in 2008
 Czech Equities  <.PX> 1,204.8  1,223.7   -1.54        -33.62
 vs Euro     <EURCZK=>  24.890   24.890   +0.00         +6.47
 vs Dollar      <CZK=>  18.205   18.202   -0.02         -0.19
 U.S. Equities  <.DJI>  10,325   10,483   -1.50        -22.16
 Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1500

======================= PRESS DIGEST===========================
                                
 SUPPORT FOR U.S. RADAR STRENGTHENS: Public support for a
U.S. missile defence radar rose,  a survey by Factum Invenio
showed, with the number of supporters rising to 38 percent from
24 percent.
                                
 Mlada fronta Dnes, page 2B
                                
 
                                
 CZECH FINIMIN AGAINST EUROPEAN RESCUE FUND: Finance Minister
Miroslav Kalousek said he could not by any means support
creation of a pan-European fund aimed to rescue banks.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 11
                                
 
                                
 SKODA SALES SLACKEN: Car sales at Skoda Auto, a unit of
Germany's car maker Volkswagen <VOWG.DE>, have grown around 4-5
percent in September, Skoda's sales director Fred Kappler said.
He added double digit growth rates seen in past years are over.
                                
 Mlada fronta Dnes, page B1
                                
 
                                
 CEZ SALE HALTED: The government, which is the majority
shareholder in CEZ <CEZPsp.PR>, will not sell for now the
remaining 2 percent of the total 7 percent in the power group
that it had planned to sell, Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek
said, pointing to the negative developments on global equity
markets.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 11
                                
 
                                
 
                                
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 (Compiled by Jana Mlcochova)