PRAGUE, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial
markets on Friday.
ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 1 hour)
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PRAGUE - January foreign exchange reserves data at 0900 GMT.
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PRAGUE - The lower house of parliament to continue a session
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INTEREST RATES: The Czech central bank left interest rates
at record lows as expected on Thursday and signalled it would
keep them there for several months before beginning to tighten
policy in the second half of this year.
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CEE BONDS: Domestic bond yields in central Europe have room
to drop more in the first half of 2010 as the Poles and Czechs
balance record borrowing with more foreign debt issues and
Hungarian and Romanian rates fall.
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CEE MARKETS: Central European currencies fell early on
Thursday, with debt concerns over the euro zone's periphery
coming back into focus ahead of interest rates decisions by the
Czech central bank and the ECB.
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FOREX POLL: Poland's zloty is expected to firm beyond the
key level of 4.0 against the euro in the next months and the
outlook of Romania's leu has also improved in the past weeks, a
monthly Reuters poll showed.
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Index/Crown Currency Latest Prev Pct change Pct change
close on day in 2010
Czech Equities <> 1135,2 1135,2 -3,32 1,6
vs Euro <EURCZK=> 26,287 26,264 -0,09 0,12
vs Dollar <CZK=> 19,146 19,136 -0,05 -4,18
U.S. Equities <> 10002,18 10270,55 -2,61 -4,08
Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1600
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TAXES: The leading leftist party the Social Democrats plan
to raise the cap on social and health insurance to seven or
eight times the average wage from six times. The party had
earlier said it would also introduce a new personal income tax
rate of 38 percent for the rich.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 1
ELECTION: The Social Democrat's Vice Chairman Bohuslav
Sobotka would consider forming a minority government with the
backing of the communist party unfortunate, mainly from the
point of view of consolidating the budget. The Social Democrats
lead opinion polls ahead of an election in May. He said the
party would prefer to form a majority government with smaller
centrist parties or form a minority one with the backing of
other parties but the communists.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 11
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