Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Oct 9

                                
 PRAGUE, Oct 9 (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)

=========================ECONOMIC DATA=========================
                                
 September inflation data at 0700 GMT.
                                
 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/]
                                
 
==========================EVENTS==============================
                                
 PRAGUE - European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek to meet
chairman of the Czech upper house of Parliament Premysl Sobotka
at 0700 GMT (press briefing at 0730 GMT), Czech President Vaclav
Klaus at 0900 GMT, chairman of the Czech lower house of
Parliament Miroslav Vlcek at 1000 GMT (news conference at 1035
GMT) and Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer at 1415 GMT (news
conference at 1435 GMT).
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DIP]
                                
 
                                
 PRAGUE - Prime Minister Jan Fischer and leaders of the
parliamentary parties may hold a meeting on government mandate.
News conference at 0900 GMT.
                                
 Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-POL]
                                
 
==========================TOP NEWS============================
                                
 KLAUS ON LISBON: Czech President Vaclav Klaus raised a new
obstacle to the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty on
Thursday, telling EU president Sweden he wants a footnote added
to the document before signing it into force.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL8351769] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-DIP]
                                
 
                                
 TUMA: The Czech central bank has a list of six to seven
measures it could take to ease policy, Governor Zdenek Tuma told
the daily Hospodarske Noviny in an interview.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL8366925] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-PLCY]
                                
 
                                
 SRAMKO: All European Union countries must slash their budget
deficits as soon as possible to get them below 3 percent of
gross domestic product, European Central Bank Governing Council
member Ivan Sramko said in a newspaper interview published on
Friday.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL8352699] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-EUR]

                                
 CEE MARKETS: Central European currencies were down on
Thursday after investors pulled back on lingering Baltic
contagion concerns, with rate cut expectations and politics
hampering the Czech crown and Romanian leu.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL8129309] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-FRX]
                                
 
                                
 POLITICAL RACE: The Czech left-wing Social Democrats (CSSD)
pulled further ahead of the main rightist party, the Civic
Democrats (ODS) ahead of an election in mid-2010, a survey
showed on Thursday.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL8628395] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-POL]
                                
 
                                
 UNEMPLOYMENT: The Czech unemployment rate rose to a
three-year high of 8.6 percent in September, data showed on
Thursday, with a steady stream of job cuts expected to push the
rate higher over the next two years.
                                
 Story: [ID:nL8128440] Related news: [RTRS-LEN-CZ-ECI]
 ---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
 Index/Crown Currency  Latest    Prev    Pct change   Pct change
                                
                              close   on day       in 2009
 Czech Equities <.PX>  1142,9    1142,9    0,77      33,17
vs Euro   <EURCZK=>    25,824    25,786   -0,15      3,47
vs Dollar    <CZK=>    17,536    17,432   -0,6       8,26
 U.S. Equities <.DJI>  9786,87  9725,58    0,63      11,51
 Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1600
==========================PRESS DIGEST========================
                                
 LISBON TREATY: Czech President Vaclav Klaus should explain
on Friday details of how he wants to proceed with regards to his
requirements for an additional footnote in the Lisbon Treaty,
before signing the document and allowing its ratification in the
whole EU.
                                
 Mlada fronta Dnes, page A2
                                
 
                                
 U.S. DEFENCE: A key element of the planned Obama missile
defence system, headquarters for shooting down Iranian missiles,
could be placed in the Czech Republic, the paper reports, citing
U.S. Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher. Joe Biden's visit
to Prague in October is related to this.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 6

                                
 Reuters has not verified the media reports, nor does it
vouch for their accuracy.
                                
    
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 (Compiled by Jana Mlcochova)