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WARSAW, June 16 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Central/Eastern Europe's financial markets on Monday.
DAIMLER
Hungary may compete with Poland and Romania to host the new Daimler AG <DAIGn.DE> plant of new generation Mercedes "A" and "B" class automobiles, German car magazines Auto Motor und Sport and Automobilwoche reports.
The publications also mentions Serbia as a possible location and stress that Romania has the smallest chance. The new plant will produce at least 100,000 cars per year.
ELECTROLUX INVESTMENT
Home appliances maker Electrolux <ELUXb.ST> received a 220 million euros ($337.3 million) loan from the European Central Bank, from which 150 million is to be invested in Poland, business daily Puls Biznesu reports. The daily also said Electrolux may use its own capital, possibly another 150 million euros, for more investments in Poland.
ECM
Czech developer ECM <
> expects its flagship project City Tower to be fully sold to tenants by the end of the year, Hospodarske Noviny reports.For more news on ECM double click on [
]PEGAS
Artificial textile maker Pegas Nonwovens <
> to hold an annual shareholders' meeting.For related news double click: [
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DAEWOO
The Korean conglomerate Daewoo is looking into building a 100 million zlotys ($45.2 million) refrigerator factory in southeast Poland, daily Rzeczpospolita reports, citing unnamed sources.
IAR GHIMBAV
Romania's privatisation agency AVAS postpones the deadline to file binding bids in the sale of the country's sole helicopter maker IAR Ghimbav by one month until July 23, at the request of some investors interested in the company, daily Ziarul Financiar reports.
BANCA TRANSILVANIA The president of Banca Transilvania's board, Horia Ciorcila, denies local media reports that the Romanian bank would be sold in the near future, Ziarul Financiar says.
VOESTALPINE Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine <VOES.VI> will announce its decision on the location of its planned multi-billion investment in a new plant on the Black Sea in August or September, newspaper Business Standard reports, cites Romania's Foreign Investment Agency.
The company is assessing around 10 locations in Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.
POLAND AND CO2
Poland is preparing scenarios preventing the full auctioning of carbon dioxide emission permits due to start in 2013, including an option to block the decision within the European Union, the prime minister said. [
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EUROPEAN MARKETS
European shares are seen opening little changed on Monday, eking out gains after U.S. and Asian shares rallied but with nervous investors eyeing euro-zone CPI data.
U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday, helped by a government report that showed underlying price pressures rose moderately in May, easing fears that inflation would force a near-term rise in interest rates. Asian stocks rallied on Monday, with Japan's Nikkei <
> adding 2.7 percent.For the latest news on European markets, double click [
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WALL STREET
Should oil prices extend their pullback and data show no further deterioration in the U.S. economy, stocks could rise this week. But investment banks' results will be the wild card.
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