EMERGING EUROPE STOCKS - Factors to Watch Oct 8

                                
 WARSAW, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Central/Eastern
Europe's financial markets on Wednesday.
                                
 
                                
 KGHM
                                
 Polish government will decide to leave Miroslaw Krutin as
head of the state-controlled copper miner KGHM <KGHM.WA> at the
supervisory board meeting on Thursday, daily Parkiet reports.
                                
 PGNiG
                                
 Polish gas monopoly PGNiG <PGNI.WA> is in talks to import
compressed gas by sea, with Canada's Cosell and Norway's Knutsen
interested in providing the technology, Parkiet writes.
                                
 ENEA
                                
 Polish treasury may today announce that this year's largest
planned Warsaw IPO of power group ENEA would be put off because
of weak markets, daily Rzeczpospolita reports.

                                
 AGORA
                                
 Polish media group Agora <AGOD.WA> may ink deal to buy a 33
percent stake in news channel Superstacja this week for 20
million zlotys, Rzeczpospolita reports.
                                
 
                                
 GENERAL MOTORS
                                
 General Motors <GM.N> temporary suspends the production of
Opel cars at its Polish factory in Gliwice as part of a wider
move due to weak demand for cars, Rzeczpospolita writes.
                                
 
                                
 J.W. CONSTRUCTION
                                
 Poland's largest homebuilder J.W. Construction <JWCA.WA> is
likely to come very close to meeting its 2008 forecast despite
the market instability, its supervisory board head tells
Parkiet.
                                
 
                                
  CFR MARFA
                                
 The planned sale of Romanian rail freight company CFR Marfa
SA will be one of the top privatisations in 2009, the transport
minister is quoted as saying by Ziarul Financiar.
                                
 
                                
 PEUGEOT
                                
 Romania is on French carmaker Peugeot Citroen's <PEUP.PA>
list of possible locations to build an engine plant, Ziarul
Financiar quotes Peugeot managing director as saying.
                                
 
                                
 MILLENNIUM
                                
 Polish bank Millennium <BIGW.WA> reports a net profit of 126
million zlotys ($49.72 million) in the third quarter of 2008,
slightly below the 127 million netted year before. The bank's
nine-month profit rose 11.3 percent year-on-year to 378 million
zlotys.                                [ID:nL7382325]
                                
 
                                
 PKO
                                
 Poland's No. 2 bank PKO BP <PKOB.WA> has attracted more than
$1 billion from an aggressively advertised deposit offer, its
chief executive says.                            [ID:nL7212063]
                                
 
                                
 POLISH BANK GUARANTEES
                                
 Poland's finance minister confirms it would raise guarantees
for banking deposits in line with wider European Union efforts
to boost confidence in the troubled financial system.
                                
                                              [ID:nL7195519]
                                
 
                                
 EUROPEAN MARKETS
                                
 European stock index futures pointed to a sharp drop on
Wednesday, as fears over the credit crisis continued to knock
global equity markets lower.
                                
 Futures for the Eurostoxx 50 <STXEc1>, Germany's DAX <FDXc1>
and the French CAC 40 <FCEc1> were down between 4.2 percent and
4.9 percent.
                                
 For the latest news on European markets, double click [.EU]
                                
 
                                
 WALL STREET
                                
 U.S. stocks tumbled for a fifth straight session on Tuesday,
capping the Dow's biggest five-day point loss ever, as fears
mounted that the rapidly spreading credit crisis would drag the
economy into a deep recession.
                                
 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did little to reassure
markets when he cautioned that downside risks to economic growth
have worsened, though he did signal a readiness to lower
interest rates.
                                
 For latest Wall Street news, double click [.N]

                                
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 Budapest SE Index <.BUX>  Bucharest Beti <.BETI>
 Prague PX <.PX>           Zagreb Crobex <.CRBEX>
 Sofia Sofix <.SOFIX>      Ljubljana SBI20 <.SBI>
 
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