PRAGUE, Feb 11(Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial
markets on Thursday.
ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 1 hour)
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PRAGUE - Czech central bank governing board to hold a
regular weekly meeting. It is not scheduled to discuss monetary
policy issues.
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PRAGUE - The lower house of parliament to hold an
extraordinary session (0800 GMT). Right-wing deputies have been
obstruting leftist attempts to approve extra spending ahead of
an election in May. The house will consider a plan to abolish
caps on compulsory health insurance.
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PRAGUE - CSOB, a unit of KBC <KBC.BR>, releases its
full-year 2009 results (1300 GMT). The bank is expected to
launch an IPO later this year.
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BOND AUCTION: Demand jumped at a Czech 15-year bond auction
on Wednesday after market concerns over the Greek debt crisis
eased, but the bids came low, prompting the Finance Ministry to
cut the supply in half.
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CEE MARKETS: Investors jumped at bond auctions in Poland and
the Czech Republic on Wednesday as a potential Greece rescue
eased some pressure on emerging Europe.
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NWR PULLS DEBT: Czech miner New World Resources (NWR)
<NWRSsp.PR> <NWRS.L> pulled a planned 700 million euro ($959.6
million) high-yield bond after sovereign debt-fuelled market
jitters.
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POWER GRID STRAINED: The Czech power grid operator warned on
Wednesday that a boom in solar and wind power plants could
threaten stability of supplies, forcing it to take such plants
offline, a warning to investors in new capacity.
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CEZ INVESTIGATION: Czech police asked the state attorney on
Wednesday to prosecute 26 workers at power company CEZ
<> for alleged extortion related to behaviour when
dealing with people suspected of stealing electricity.
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CONSTRUCTION: Privately-owned builder PSJ won a 10 billion
crown ($529.1 million) contract to build part of the Sochi
Olympic Games project.
Lidove Novniny, page 15
Skanska <SKAb.ST> Czech chief Dan Tok expects the local
construction output to drop by at least 10 percent this year.
Lidove Noviny, page 19
PETROL TAX: The government has asked the EU for an exemption
to sales tax collection rules that would help it fight tax fraud
in petrol sales.
Mlada fronta Dnes, page 1
CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION: The Office of the High Attorney
will check whether police properly investigated the case of a
planned purchase of Gripen fighters. Police has twice ended
investigation of alleged corruption of state officials and
brought no charges. An investigation of British Aerospace
<BAES.L> in Britain in connection with the case has been ended
after the company agreed to pay a fine.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 5
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