Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Aug 19

                                
 PRAGUE, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial
markets on Wednesday:
                                
 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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 PRAGUE - 3-year government bond auction <CZ1002505=>.
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DBT]
                                
 
                                
 AMSTERDAM - Coal mining firm New World Resources (NWR)
<NWRS.L> <NWRSsp.PR> first half results presentation and
conference call for investors and analysts at 1000 GMT.
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MIN]

==========================MORNING NEWS========================
                                
 NWR RESULTS: Mining group New World Resources (NWR)
<NWRSsp.PR> <NWRS.L> swung to a bigger than expected loss in the
second quarter of 2009 and halted its first-half dividend
payment to keep cash as it pulls out of the worst of the
economic crisis.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLJ380980] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MIN]
                                
 
                                
 AIR FRANCE OUT: Air France-KLM <AIRF.PA> pulled out of the
bidding for state-owned Czech Airlines (CSA) on Wednesday,
citing the impact of the economic environment on the airline
business.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLJ537397] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MRG]
                                
 
==========================TOP NEWS============================
                                
 FDI: Foreign direct investment in the Czech Republic will
likely fall by half in 2009 on the tail end of the country's
worst economic slide in more than a decade, the head of the
state investment agency CzechInvest said on Tuesday.
                                
 Story [ID:nLI142235] Related news [RTRS-LEN-CZ-MCE]
                                
 
                                
 UNIPETROL: An explosion in an empty storage container at a
refinery of Czech downstream oil group Unipetrol <UNPEsp.PR> on
Tuesday injured four people, three seriously, the company said
in a statement. 
                                
 Story [ID:nLI586000] Related news [RTRS-LEN-CZ-CHE]
                                
 
                                
 SPY ROW: Russia has ordered two Czech diplomats out of
Russia, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, in a spying
row between two countries at odds over U.S. plans to install an
anti-missile system in Europe.
                                
 Story [ID:nLI208665] Related news [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DIP]

                                
 Reuters has not verified the media reports, nor does it
vouch for their accuracy.
                                
    
 For Instant Views of key economic data click on    [CZ/INSTANT]
 For summary of economic data and forecasts          <CZ/ECON01>
 For diary of forthcoming Czech events                [CZ/DIARY]
 For calendar of east European economic indicators  [CONV/DIARY]
 TOP NEWS -- Emerging markets                         [TOP/EMRG]
 TOP NEWS -- Convergence watch                        [TOP/EAST]

 For an economic indicator diary for the euro zone, the United
 States and other Group of Seven countries see         <G7TODAY>

 For real-time stock market index quotes click in brackets:
 Warsaw WIG20 <.WIG20>  Budapest BUX <.BUX>  Prague PX <.PX>

                                
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  (Compiled by Jason Hovet)