EMERGING EUROPE STOCKS - Factors to Watch Sept 10

                                
 WARSAW, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Central/Eastern
Europe's financial markets on Wednesday.
                                
 
                                
 CIECH, PULAWY, POLICE
                                
 Polish Treasury Minister Aleksander Grad will present plans
at 1100 GMT to consolidate the local chemical sector, which may
include listed companies Ciech <CECH.WA>, Pulawy <PULW.WA>,
Police <PICE.WA> and Tarnow <ATTP.WA>.
                                
 
                                
 ECM
                                
 Czech property developer ECM <ECMPsp.PR> will not meet its
full-year target of 25 percent growth in net asset value and may
sell new shares, its chief financial officer said in an
interview for daily Hospodarske Noviny.
                                
 
                                
 PKN ORLEN
                                
 Poland's largest oil company PKN Orlen <PKNA.WA> may sell
its chemical unit Anwil as part of the strategy review, Deputy
Chief Executive Jacek Krawiec was quoted as saying by newspaper
Puls Biznesu.
                                
 
                                
 AGORA
                                
 Poland's largest publisher Agora <AGOD.WA> has agreed to pay
20 million zlotys ($8.13 million) for one third of small local
news channel Superstacja and buy the rest of the company in
three years, newspaper Gazeta Prawna reports without giving
sources.
                                
 
                                
 CEZ
                                
 Czech power company CEZ <CEZsp.PR> plans to build 400 MW and
800 MW power plants in Poland in the next five years and will
decide on the location of the smaller unit in the first quarter
of 2009, the head of its Polish unit Petr Ivanek told daily
Gazeta Prawna.
                                
 
                                
 FORD
                                
 Romanian finance ministry is expected to give U.S. carmaker
Ford <F.N> $202 million in state aid from 2008 through 2012 if
the company meets its investment programme in local carmaker
Automobile Craiova <AUCSxm.BRQ>, daily Ziarul Financiar reports.
                                
 
                                
 HEIDELBERGCEMENT PLANT
                                
 German cement maker HeidelbergCement <HEIG.DE> plans to
invest around 300 million euro to build a cement plant in
Romania next year, newspaper Ziarul Financiar reports.
                                
 
                                
 EUROPEAN MARKETS
                                
 European stock index futures pointed to a lower start on
Wednesday, tracking big losses on Wall Street overnight on fresh
worries over the health of the banking sector.
                                
 For the latest news on European markets, double click [.EU]
                                
 
                                
 WALL STREET
                                
 U.S. stocks finished sharply lower on Tuesday, with the
benchmark S&P 500 suffering its worst percentage decline since
late February 2007, as financial shares sold off on worries
about Lehman Brothers' <LEH.N> ability to raise much-needed
cash.
                                
 For latest Wall Street news, double click [.N]

                                
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