Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Sept 18

                                
 PRAGUE, Sept 18 (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 + 2 hours)

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 PRAGUE - Upper house of Parliament chairman Premysl Sobotka
to meet Prime Minister Jan Fischer to discuss budget and missile
defence (0700 GMT).
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-POL]
                                
 
                                
 PRAGUE - Finance Minister Eduard janota to meet chiefs of
main parliamentary political parties to discuss savings package
to cut the 2010 budget deficit (1100 GMT).
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DBT]
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 RADAR: U.S. President Barack Obama has told east European
states he is abandoning plans for an anti-missile shield there,
in a move that may ease Russian- U.S. ties but fuel fears of
resurgent Kremlin influence. 
                                
 Story: [ID:nLG276703] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DIP]
                                
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 NEW BONDS: The Czech government will start auctions of
euro-denominated bonds, opening a new financing channel and a
new instrument demanded by investors, the Finance Ministry said
on Thursday.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLG276703] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DBT]
                                
 
                                
 FAST-TRACK BUDGET CUTS: The Czech government will introduce
a package of tax hikes and spending cuts to parliament in a
fast-track procedure that would allow including the measures
into the 2010 budget draft, Prime Minister Jan Fischer said.
                                
 Story: [ID:nLH662756] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-POL]
                                
 
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 COSTS OF EURO: The example of Slovakia shows how a strong
conversion rate of a national currency vesrus the euro can hurt
exports, central bank Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer says.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 25
                                
 
                                
 ORCO RESTRUCTURING: A group of Orco Property Group<ORCO.PA>
<ORCOsp.PR> protests against the terms of planned debt
restructuring, saying the plan gave them worse treatment than
some other investors.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 25
                                
    
                                
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 (Compiled by Jana Mlcochova)