EMERGING EUROPE STOCKS - Factors to Watch Oct 30

                                
 WARSAW, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Central/Eastern
Europe's financial markets on Thursday.
                                
 
                                
 TPSA
                                
 Prosecutors, local and EU regulators as well as antimonopoly
officials raided the offices of Poland's largest telecom
TPSA<TPSA.WA> over suspected misuse of its dominant position on
the broadband market, daily Rzeczpospolita reported.
                                
 
                                
 BRE
                                
 Poland's No. 3 lender BRE Bank <BREP.WA> beat expectation
with a 23-percent rise in third quarter earnings thanks to
demand for mortgages and other retail loans.    [nWAR007528]
                                
 
                                
 POLISH SHIPYARDS
                                
 United Arab Emirates investors could be a great 'investment
partner' for Polish shipyards, head of Mashreqbank and UAE
parliamen Abdul Aziz Abdulla Al Ghurair was quoted as saying by
Rzeczpospolita.
                                
 
                                
 KREMIKOVTZI
                                
 Leading metal producer Smart Group, owned by Ukrainian
magnate Rinat Akhmetov, is the only suitor with strategic
intentions for the troubled Bulgarian steel mill Kremikovtzi
<KMKV.BB>, writes Dnevnik quoting Energy Minister Petar
Dimitrov.
                                
 
                                
 GAZPROM
                                
 Romania discussed on Wednesday potential transit capacities
with Russia's gas giant Gazprom <GAZP.MM> and "aspects" related
to the South Stream pipeline, the head of state-owned gas firm
Transgaz said.
                                
 
                                
 DACIA
                                
 Romanian carmaker Dacia, owned by France's Renault
<RENA.PA>, halts production for two days. The decision was taken
on Oct. 24 in reaction to lower market demant.
                                
 
                                
 TMK ARTROM
                                
 Steel pipe maker TMK Artrom Slatina <ARTM.BX>, of Russian
group TMK, plans to cut output because of lower demand caused by
the international financial crisis, Ziarul Financiar reports.

                                
 ENEA IPO
                                
 Polish energy group Enea cut the minimum price for Warsaw's
largest planned initial public offering this year to 15.4 zlotys
per share for individual and financial investors, it said on
Wednesday.                                      [ID:nLT456895]
                                
 
                                
 GETIN
                                
 Demand for retail loans in Poland is growing despite crisis
in the financial markets and the weaker zloty which has spurred
most clients to shun borrowing in Swiss francs, financial group
Getin Holding <GETI.WA> said on Wednesday.        [ID:nLT9930]

                                
 BCR
                                
 Ratings agency Standard&Poor's lowered its long-term
counterparty credit rating on Romania-based Banca Comerciala
Romana (BCR) to 'BB+' from 'BBB-'. The outlook remains negative.
                                
                                               [ID:nWLA1520]
                                
 EUROPEAN MARKETS
                                
 European shares were set to open higher after the U.S.
Federal Reserve delivered another rate cut, commodity prices
rose and the yen fell on expectations that Japan would also
reduce borrowing costs.
                                
  Bookmakers expected Britain's FTSE <.FTSE> to open up 73 to
108 points, Germany's DAX <.GDAXI> up 100 to 130 points and
France's CAC <.FCHI> up 61 to 93 points, making for gains of 2.5
to 2.7 percent.
                                
 For the latest news on European markets, double click [.EU]
                                
 
                                
 WALL STREET
                                
 U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday as a big rally faltered in the
last minutes of trading on worry about the weakening corporate
profit picture after a news report raised questions about
General Electric's earnings outlook.
                                
 For latest Wall Street news, double click [.N]

                                
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 Budapest SE Index <.BUX>  Bucharest Beti <.BETI>
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