PRAGUE, Sept 14 (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)
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PRAGUE - Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer to meet Russian
Deputy Prime Minister Aleksander Zhukov (0600 GMT).
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PRAGUE - International conference "Statistics - investment
for the future" with Czech central bank (CNB) Governor Zdenek
Tuma and Prime Minister Jan Fischer (0730 GMT).
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BRNO - Weekly Ekonom roundtable, Government's National
Economic Council (NERV) to present its final report at 1000 GMT.
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BRNO - Czech Confederation of Industry to hold conference in
attendance of its chief Jaroslav Mil and Prime Minister Jan
Fischer at 1130 GMT.
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BRNO - Czech Confederation of Industry to hold a news
conference with its chief Jaroslav Mil, Prime Minister Jan
Fischer and Finance Minister Eduard Janota at 1415 GMT.
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PRAGUE - Czech President Vaclav Klaus to meet Russian
Deputy Prime Minister Aleksander Zhukov (1230 GMT).
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PRAGUE - Czech Defense Minister Martin Bartak to meet
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksander Zhukov, to discuss
cooperation in the field of armament and bilateral security
questions. Press briefing at 1400 GMT.
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CZECH RATES: Czech central banker Vladimir Tomsik was quoted
on Monday as saying he could not exclude further interest rate
easing although from a long-term perspective Czech rates are
below their long term balance.
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CENTRIST PARTY INTW: A small Czech centrist party that may
be the kingmaker after election planned by November will keep
its door open to both right and left-wing parties on forming the
next government, its chief said on Friday.
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PROGRESS IN EARLY ELECTION: The lower house of the Czech
parliament approved a constitutional change on Friday that will
allow to hold an early election by early November.
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SKODA: Volkswagen's <VOWG.DE> Czech unit Skoda Auto expects
to narrow full-year unit sales drop to 5 percent from
double-digits in the first half and sees a rebound in 2010, its
chairman said.
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JULY C/A: The Czech current account showed a 3.06 billion
crown ($175.5 million) deficit in July, smaller than the 6.0
billion gap forecast by analysts, data showed on Friday.
JULY INDUSTRY: Czech industrial output fell by 18.2 percent
year-on-year in July, slightly below a flash estimate of 18.4
percent released by the statistics office on August 28, data
showed on Friday.
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MINE TREMOR: One Polish miner died and three other
mineworkers were injured at an OKD <NWRSsp.PR> <NWRS.L> mine
when a tremor hit the Czech coal pit, the company said on
Friday.
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---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
Index/Crown Currency Latest Prev Pct change Pct change
close on day in 2009
Czech Equities <> 1141,4 1141,4 -0,53 33
vs Euro <EURCZK=> 25,468 25,435 -0,13 4,8
vs Dollar <CZK=> 17,495 17,415 -0,46 8,47
U.S. Equities <> 9605,41 9627,48 -0,23 9,45
Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1600
==========================PRESS DIGEST========================
EARLY VOTE: Both chambers of Czech parliament approve on
Friday an amendment to the constitution allowing the lower house
to dissolve itself by a vote of three-fifth of deputies. The
change was needed to allow for early election in November.
Pravo (Saturday), page 1
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