Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Aug 10

                                
 PRAGUE, Aug 10 (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)

=========================ECONOMIC DATA=========================
                                
 July inflation data at 0700 GMT.
                                
 July unemployment data at 0700 GMT.
                                
 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/]
 
==========================TOP NEWS============================
                                
 TUMA ON CROWN: A Czech crown exchange rate of between 25 and
26 to the euro will not be a big problem for the domestic
economy, central bank Governor Zdenek Tuma told local radio a
day after the bank cut interest rates to new lows.
                                
 Story [ID:nL7731786] Related news [RTRS-LEN-CZ-FRX]
                                
 
                                
 WORST OVER IN EASTERN EUROPE: The worst of the economic
crisis has passed for central and Eastern Europe, and although
countries face continued risks, cash injections from the IMF and
European Union have ended the threat of region-wide meltdown.
                                
Story [ID:nL659281] Related news [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MCE]

                                
 CEE FX: The Polish zloty and the Hungarian forint recovered
earlier losses on Friday, with sharp gains after U.S. jobs data,
while the leu was flat all day as the Romanian industry showed a
sign of turnaround.
                                
 Story [ID:nL731167] Related news [RTRS-LEN-CZ-FRX]
                                
 
                                
 OUTPUT: The pace of Slovak and Romanian industrial output
decline slowed in June, data showed on Friday, and analysts said
there were signs of recovery driven by improvement in Germany,
the euro zone's largest economy and a key market.
                                
 Story [ID:nL7497381] Related news [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MCE]

---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
 Index/Crown Currency  Latest    Prev    Pct change   Pct change
                                
                              close   on day       in 2009
 Czech Equities <.PX>   0         1141,4    0            -100
vs Euro   <EURCZK=>    25,818     25,787    0,12         -3,49
vs Dollar    <CZK=>    18,167     18,201   -0,19         -4,95
 U.S. Equities <.DJI>  9370,07    9256,26   1,23          6,76
 Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1500

==========================PRESS DIGEST========================
                                
 CORPORATE LOANS: Loans provided to Czech companies rose by
10 billion crowns ($553.4 million) year on year at the end of
June to 530 billion crowns, Czech central bank data showed.
                                
 Lidove Noviny, page 13
                                
 
                                
 ELECTIONS: A Median agency poll found that 19.2 percent of
people want Mirek Topolanek, the leader of rightist Civic
Democrats, as the next Czech Prime Minister. The leftists Social
Democrats leader Jiri Paroubek won backing of 17.4 percent.
                                
 Mlada Fronta Dnes, page 2
                                
 
                                
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  (Compiled by Jana Mlcochova)