Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on April 19

                                
 PRAGUE, April 19 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial
markets on Tuesday.
                                
 ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 2 hours)

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 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/]
                                
 
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 GOVERNMENT:
                                
 Story: [ID:nLDE73G02V] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-POL]
                                
 
                                
 CEZ TO RECONNECT TWO DUKOVANY UNITS AFTER OUTAGES: Czech
utility CEZ <CEZPsp.PR> plans to reconnect the 498-MW unit 4 at
its Dukovany nuclear power plant on Monday after an unplanned
outage last week to fix leakage of a fitting, CEZ spokesman Petr
Spilka told Reuters.
                                
 Story: [ID:nPRG004892] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-NUC]
                                
 
                                
 CEE MARKETS: Hungary's forint eased on Monday, extending
recent losses against the euro after the central bank kept
interest rates steady and an official warned the government
could miss its target for budget revenue.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLDE73H0AS] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CEEU-FRX]
                                
 
                                
 CEE POWER: Czech prompt power was steady on Monday with
little changes in fundamentals but fell sharply toward the end
of the week due to forecasts for warm, sunny weather expected to
boost renewable capacity, traders said.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLDE73H1O4] Related news [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ENR]
                                
 
 ---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
 Index/Crown Currency    Latest     Prev   Pct change Pct change
                                
                                 close    on day     in 2011
 vs Euro    <EURCZK=>     24.097     24.165    0.28       3.61
 vs Dollar     <CZK=>     16.928     16.958    0.18       9.32
 Czech Equities <.PX>  1,223.3    1,223.3     -1.35      -0.12
 U.S. Equities <.DJI> 12,201.59  12,341.83    -1.14       5.39
 Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1500 GMT
 ==========================PRESS DIGEST=========================
                                
 SOCIALISTS LEAD POLLS: The opposition Social Democrats would
win 29 percent of th evote if an election was held now, followed
by the Civic Democrats with 14.6, the Communists with 9.9, TOP09
with 9.0, and Public Affairs with 5.5.
                                
 Pravo, page 3.
                                
 
                                
 SMALL EXPOSURE: Czech banks have 0.3 percent of assets in
Greek bonds, or 12.5 billion crowns.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 3
                                
 Reuters has not verified the media reports, nor does it
vouch for their accuracy.

                                
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