EMERGING EUROPE STOCKS - Factors to Watch Sept 29

                                
 WARSAW, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Central/Eastern
Europe's financial markets on Monday.
                                
 
                                
 OTP
                                
 Hungary's OTP Bank <OTPB.BU> is considering a dual listing
on the Warsaw stock exchange, a source close to the bourse told
Reuters on Friday.                             [ID:nLQ44314]
                                
 OTP may seek to swap share stakes with Poland's state
controlled lender PKO BP <PKOB.WA> as prelude to a potential
merger between the two, daily Puls Biznesu reports, citing an
anonymous source at the Polish state treasury.
                                
 OTP Chief Executive Sandor Csanyi and Warsaw bourse head
Ludwik Sobolewski hold a joint news conference at 1145 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 TVN
                                
 TVN <TVNN.WA> will likely raise its 2008 forecast in October
thanks to strong demand for television ads, ING brokerage said
in a note on Monday after Poland's top largest media group met
with investors.                                  [nLT202992]
                                
 
                                
 POLISH ELECTRICITY MARKET
                                
 Polish energy regulator URE will make a decision on
electricity prices. News conference is planned at 1100 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 ARCTIC PAPER
                                
 Swedish paper producer Arctic Paper plans to debut on a
Warsaw bourse in the first quarter of next year, daily
Rzeczpospolita wrote.
                                
 
                                
 POL-AQUA, POLNORD
                                
 Poland's construction companies Pol-Aqua <PQAA.WA> AND
Polnord <PNOR.WA> ARE considerING entering the Belarussian
market, Rzeczpospolita writes.
                                
 
                                
 WIENER BOERSE, PRAGUE STOCK EXCHANGE
                                
 Vienna stockmarket operator Wiener Boerse is a favourite in
the planned sale of the Prague Stock Exchange (PSE), daily E15
reports on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
                                
 Warsaw Stock Exchange plans to file its offer today although
it was not invited in the tender and it is not taking part in
due diligence, the daily writes.
                                
 
                                
 ALSTOM PLANT
                                
 French energy group Alstom <ALSO.PA> plans to build a power
equipment plant by 2010 in Bucharest, on investment of around
150 million euros, Ziarul Financiar reports.
                                
 
                                
 AERO VODOCHODY
                                
 Romania's privatisation agency is expected to decide on the
sale of aircraft maker Avioane Craiova to Czech firm AERO
Vodochody on Monday, Ziarul Financiar writes.
                                
 
                                
 EUROPEAN MARKETS
                                
 European stock index futures dropped early on Monday, on
renewed fears over the ailing financial sector after Fortis
<FOR.BR> <FOR.AS> was nationalised and as U.S. lawmakers
prepared to vote on a broad emergency bailout plan.
                                
 For the latest news on European markets, double click [.EU]
                                
 
                                
 WALL STREET
                                
 U.S. stock index futures rose on Sunday as lawmakers in
Washington geared up to vote on creating a $700 billion
government fund to buy bad debt in an effort to alleviate the
global financial crisis.
                                
 Congressional leaders from both parties said they had a
tentative agreement on Sunday, but questions abound as to
whether the U.S. financial rescue plan, which would use taxpayer
funds to buy up toxic mortgage debt, would restore confidence to
shaky markets and head off a deeper downturn.
                                
 For latest Wall Street news, double click [.N]

                                
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 Budapest SE Index <.BUX>  Bucharest Beti <.BETI>
 Prague PX <.PX>           Zagreb Crobex <.CRBEX>
 Sofia Sofix <.SOFIX>      Ljubljana SBI20 <.SBI>
 
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