Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Dec 8

                                
 PRAGUE, Dec 8 (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 ========================
                                
 October foreign trade and November inflation data at 0800
GMT
                                
 November unemployment data at 0800 GMT
                                
 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 - Czech President Vaclav Klaus to meet his Slovenian
counterpart Danilo Turk at 0930 GMT. News conference at 1050
GMT.
                                
 Related new: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DIP]

                                
 PRAGUE - Online interview with Czech central bank (CNB)
board member Vladimir Tomsik on www.patria.cz (1300 GMT).
                                
 Related new: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-PLCY]
====================== TOP NEWS ===========================
                                
 PRIME MINISTER WINS RE-ELECTION: Czech Prime Minister Mirek
Topolanek won a new mandate to lead the ruling Civic Democrat
Party on Sunday in a vote confirming him as head of government
before the country's EU presidency starting next month.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL7426950] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-POL]
                                
 
                                
 PRIME MINISTER PLEADS FOR LISBON: Czech Prime Minister Mirek
Topolanek rallied his ruling right-wing party to support the
EU's Lisbon treaty on Saturday as the only way the country
taking over the EU presidency in January can push its interests
in Europe.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL6232712] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-FRX]
---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
 Index/Crown Currency  Latest    Prev    Pct change   Pct change
                                
                              close   on day       in 2008
 vs Euro     <EURCZK=>  25.875   25.775   -0.39         +2.42
 vs Dollar      <CZK=>  20.079   20.308   +1.13         -9.52
 U.S. Equities  <.DJI>  08,635   08,376   +3.09        -34.90
 Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1500
====================== PRESS DIGEST ===========================
                                
 UNIPETROL: Supervisory board at Czech petrochemical group
Unipetrol <UNPEsp.PR> will decide this week about a bid for a
16.33 percent stake in Ceska Rafinerska owned by Royal Dutch
Shell <RDSa.L>. It may offer an amount "in the order of billions
of crowns".
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 17
                                
 
                                
 NWR: OKD Doprava, a unit of coal miner NWR <NWRsp.PR>
<NWRS.L>, acquired a 90 percent stake in a railway dock in
Belorussia for estimated $2.5 million to $5 million.
                                
 Mlada Fronta Dnes, page B2
                                
 
                                
 2009 GDP: Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek said he
did not think growth should drop below 2 percent next year. He
said the Czech Republic would push for keeping principles of the
Growth and Stability Pact during its presidency of the EU.
                                
 E15, page 19
                                
 
                                
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 (Compiled by Jana Mlcochova)