PRAGUE, April 12 (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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POLAND: Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, its central bank
head and the country's military chief were among 97 people
killed when their plane crashed in thick fog near a Russian
airport on Saturday.
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CEE MARKETS: The zloty fell on Friday after the Polish
central bank's first intervention in 10 years, while other
central European currencies were pressured by Bulgaria's
decision to delay its euro plans after revealing a hidden budget
deficit.
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COALITION: The main Czech leftist party leading in polls
ahead of May elections set conditions on Friday for potential
coalition partners, with many of the terms likely to rule out
right-wing parties.
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CEZ IN BULGARIA: The Bulgarian government has launched an
audit of power generators and distributors in a bid to cut
spending and lower electricity bills, officials said on Friday.
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CPI: Czech industry expanded by 7.0 percent versus a year
earlier in February, in line with expectations, while prices
rose by 0.3 percent on the month in March.
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C.BANK ON CPI: Czech food and fuel prices were above the
central bank forecast in March but the overall inflation was
marginally below the bank's quarterly prediction released in
February, the bank said on Friday.
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Czech Equities <> -- 1234.3 1.19 10.47
vs Euro <EURCZK=> 25.202 25.187 -0.06 4.24
vs Dollar <CZK=> 18.443 18.738 1.57 -0.36
U.S. Equities <> 10997.35 10927.07 0.64 5.46
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CEZ: The heads of the two leading political parties both
said they could see selling up to a 15 percent stake in CEZ
<>, while keeping a majority in the power firm. They
were speaking during a television debate.
E15, page 1
C.BANK VS IMF: Czech central bank Vice-Governor Miroslav
Singer said the International Monetary Fund did make mistakes,
such as misinterpreting data, that helped escalate the financial
crisis in central and eastern Europe, defending comments of his
colleague Mojmir Hampl.
He said he could not conclude that the mistakes were on
purpose.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 12
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