Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Feb 24

                                
  PRAGUE, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial
markets on Wednesday.
                                
 ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 1 hour)

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 Real-time economic data releases....................<ECONCZ>
                                
 Previous stories on Czech data.............[CZ-RTRS-LEN-ECI]
                                
 Overview of economic data and forecasts..........<CZ/ECON15>
                                
 Updates on CEE currencies............................[CEE/]
 
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 PRAGUE - The lower house of parliament to hold an
extraordinary session (0800 GMT).
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-POL]
                                
 
                                
 PRAGUE - 5-year government bond auction <CZ1002737=>.
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-GVD]
                                
 
                                
 LONDON - Coal mining firm New World Resources (NWR) <NWRS.L>
<NWRSsp.PR> presentation and conference call on 2009 results for
investors and analysts at 1000 GMT.
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MIN]
                                
 
                                
 HAMILTON, Bermuda - Television group Central European Media
Enterprises <CETV.O> <CETVsp.PR> teleconference on 2009 results
at 1400 GMT.
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-PUB]
                                
 
=========================MORNING NEWS=========================
                                
 CME RESULTS: Central European Media Enterprises <CETVsp.PR>
<CETV.O> said on Wednesday fourth-quarter revenue fell 14
percent as television advertising was slow to recover from a
slump. 
                                
 Story: [ID:nLDE61N09N] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-PUB]
                                
 
                                
 NWR RESULTS: Czech miner New World Resources (NWR)
<NWRSsp.PR> <NWRS.L> posted a surprise net profit of 7.5 million
euros ($10.19 million) in the fourth quarter, ending a string of
three consecutive quarterly losses.
                                
 Story: [ID:nPRG003943] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MIN]
                                
 
=========================TOP NEWS=============================
                                
 FOREIGN BOND: The Czech Finance Ministry picked Barclays
Capital, Deutsche Bank and Ceska Sporitelna as lead managers for
a foreign bond issue on Tuesday, raising traders' expectations
that the issue could hit the market within weeks. 
                                
 Story: [ID:nLDE61M258] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DBT]
                                
 
                                
 CEE MARKETS: Currencies in the European Union's eastern
states gave up some ground on Tuesday as economic figures in the
euro zone and the U.S. sparked new worries about the pace of
economic recovery.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLDE61M0AQ] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-FRX]
                                
 
                                
 PARLIAMENT: Czech political parties settled on Tuesday a
dispute which has paralysed parliamentary business for weeks,
allowing the non-partisan government to push through some
legislation but keeping big spending bills off the agenda.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLDE61M0PS] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-POL]
                                
 
                                
 STRESS TESTS: Stress tests showed the Czech banking system
will maintain sufficient capital adequacy in all projected
scenarios, the central bank said on Tuesday.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLDE61M0ZT] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-BNK]
                                
 
                                
 CME CFO: Central European Media Enterprises (CME) <CETV.O>
<CETVsp.PR> has appointed David Sach as its new chief financial
officer, effective from March 1, the firm said on Tuesday.
                                
 Story: [ID:nPRG003941] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-PUB]
                                
 
=========================PRESS DIGEST===========================
                                
 HEALTH INSURANCE: Collection of health insurance payments
dropped in January by 4.8 percent year-on-year to its lowest
level in four years.
                                
 Lidove Noviny, page 21
                                
 
                                
 PENSION FUNDS: Profits at pension funds rose to 2.62 billion
crowns ($138 million) last year, from 0.7 billion.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 28
                                
 
                                
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