Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Sept 15

                                
 PRAGUE, Sept 15 (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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 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 Czech currency.............................[CZK/]
==========================EVENTS===============================
                                
 BRNO - Opening ceremony of 50th International Engineering
Fair in attendance of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (0800 GMT) 
                                
 TEMELIN - Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek to visit
nuclear power station. News conference at 0930 GMT.
                                
 PRAGUE - Finance Ministry to detail Q2 government debt
figures.
                                
 BRNO - 50th International Engineering Fair.

========================= TOP NEWS ============================
                                
 SANOFI EXTENDS ZENTIVA OFFER: French drugs maker
Sanofi-Aventis <SASY.PA> extended its offer for Czech generics
drugs maker Zentiva <ZNTVsp.PR>, Sanofi said on its web site.
                                
 Story: [ID:nnPRG000998] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MRG]
                                
 
                                
 AUG PPF ABOVE FCAST, C/A GAP SHRINKS: Czech factory gate
prices jumped above expectations in August, but analysts said a
plunge in food costs had bolstered the outlook for an
inflationary retreat and the central bank may still cut interest
rates.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLC588131] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ECI]
                                
 
                                
 C/A GAP MUCH SMALLER THAN FCAST: The Czech current account
posted a deficit of 0.31 billion crowns ($17.68 million) in
July, less than the market forecast of a 16.1 billion crown gap,
data showed on Friday.    
                                
 Story: [ID:LC383284] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ECI]
                                
 
                                
 AUG PPI 0.4 PCT UP: Czech industrial producer prices rose
0.4 percent in August from July, faster than market forecasts,
putting the annual rate at a three-and-a-half-year high of 5.7
percent, from July's 5.2 percent.
                                
 Story:[ID:nLC712932] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ECI]
                                
 
 ---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
 Index/Crown Currency  Latest    Prev    Pct change   Pct change
                                
                              close   on day       in 2008
 Czech Equities  <.PX> 1,290.8  1,292.2   -0.11        -28.90
 vs Euro     <EURCZK=>  23.975   24.310   +1.40        +10.53
 vs Dollar      <CZK=>  16.717   17.218   +3.00         +8.69
 U.S. Equities  <.DJI>  11,422   11,434   -0.10        -13.89
 Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1500

====================== PRESS DIGEST===========================
                                
 PRAGUE AIRPORT SALE: Finance Ministry should shortlist five
of the seven consultancies bidding to advise the government on
the sale of the Prague Airport.
                                
 E15, page 1
                                
 NO CONFIDENCE VOTE: Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said his
government may not survive a no-confidence vote which the
opposition said it will initiate at the end of October or early
November.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 1
                                
 
                                
 RADAR BASE: Czech Parliament could have a final vote on
placing a U.S. radar base on the Czech soil in December, Prime
Minister Mirek Topolanek said.
 Hospodarske Noviny 11
                                
 
                                
 PKN VERSUS CONOCO: Poland's PKN Orlen <PKN.WA> has agreed to
pay $100 million to ConocoPhillips <COP.N> as damages for
failing to sell one-third of Czech Benzina's filling stations to
Conoco after privatizing Czech oil processor Unipetrol.
                                
 
                                
 PPF OFFERS STAKE IN PRAGUE BOURSE: Czech privately owned
financial group PPF has offered its 12.12 percent stake in the
Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) to Vienna Stock Exchange. The
Austrian bourse had said it was interested in acquiring a
majority stake in the PSE slated for sale by the end of the
year.
                                
 Euro, page 50
                                
 
                                
 
                                
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 (Compiled by Jana Mlcochova)