WARSAW, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Central/Eastern
Europe's financial markets on Friday.
POL-AQUA
Polish construction and engineering group Pol-Aqua <PQAA.WA>
expects its sales to grow by at least 25 percent annually as it
seeks contracts worth 7.5 billion zlotys ($2.2 billion), its new
chief executive said. []
LNG
Poland will finalise a liquefied gas delivery deal with
Qatar in late April, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, a move to
diversify its energy imports with tanker shipments of the
super-cooled gas. []
GETIN
Poland's financial group Getin Holding <GETI.WA> will merge
local banking operations into a listed unit Noble Bank <NBLA.WA>
and seek acquisitions to become one of the country's top five
banks in 3 to 5 years. []
MOL
Croatia and Hungary's MOL <MOLB.BU> will sign a new
shareholders agreement on jointly owned oil concern INA
<INA.ZA>, giving more management rights to MOL as the largest
stakeholder. []
OTP
Hungary's OTP Bank <OTPB.BU> said on Thursday it was not
under pressure to sell any of its units, including its Ukrainian
banking arm. []
REAL ESTATE
The number of real estate deals on the Romanian market fell
by 7 percent on the year in 2008 to 485,000 transactions, on
turnover of around 14 billion euros, Ziarul Financiar writes.
BANCA TRANSILVANIA
Romania's private commercial lender Banca Transilvania
<BATR.BX> reported a net profit of 398 million lei ($123
million) in 2008, 17 percent up from a year before, according to
preliminary results, Ziarul Financiar says.
CZECH BANKS
The Czech government does not see a need to bail out
domestic banks and is looking for other ways to jump-start
lending, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Thursday.
[]
EUROPEAN MARKETS
European shares were set to open lower on Friday after a
sharp fall on Wall Street overnight and amid renewed worries
about global economic weakness.
Financial spreadbetters expected Britain's FTSE 100 <>
to open 12 to 18 points lower, or as much as 0.4 percent,
Germany's DAX <> to open 21 to 33 points lower, or as much
as 0.7 percent and France's CAC <> to open 15 to 18 points
lower, or as much as 0.5 percent.
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WALL STREET
U.S. stocks tumbled on Thursday, derailing a four-day surge
in the S&P and Nasdaq as poor earnings, coupled with a fresh
wave of bleak labor market and housing data, heightened fears of
a deep recession.
A day after financials propelled Wall Street to its longest
winning streak in two months, insurer Allstate <ALL.N> plunged
20.7 percent after posting a $1.1 billion quarterly loss and
stirred concerns about more losses on insurers' books.
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REGIONAL INDICES
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Budapest SE Index <> Bucharest Beti <>
Prague PX <> Zagreb Crobex <>
Sofia Sofix <.SOFIX> Ljubljana SBI20 <>
MSCI Global Emerging Markets <.MSCIEF>
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