PRAGUE, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Czech financial
markets on Thursday.
ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 1 hour)
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PRAGUE - Artificial textile maker Pegas Nonwovens
<> should release third quarter results.
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PRAGUE - Czech central bank governing board to hold a
regular weekly meeting. It is not scheduled to discuss monetary
policy issues.
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PRAGUE - 52-week T-bill auction.
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PRAGUE - Czech Energy Regulatory Bureau to hold news
conference on power prices in 2010 at 0900 GMT.
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PRAGUE -The Association of Pension Funds of the Czech
Republic to hold a news conference on development in the market.
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PEGAS RESULTS: Earnings before interest tax depreciation and
amortisation (EBTIDA) at textiles maker Pegas Nonwovens
<> was 8.4 million euros above market forecast of 7.6
million euros.
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US BOND YIELDS: Piling U.S. government debt makes the
country's treasury bonds less attractive and the yield on the
10-year treasury bond will not fall back to 2 percent, investor
Marc Faber said on Wednesday.
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SOLAR POWER TARIFFS: The Czech energy regulator has cut
feed-in tariffs for solar-generated power by 5 percent from the
beginning of 2010, the country's energy regulator announced on
Wednesday.
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CEE MARKETS: The Romanian leu hit its highest in more than
seven weeks on Wednesday as central European currencies rose
broadly on a weaker dollar and the Polish central bank left
interest rates flat as expected.
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---------------------- MARKET SNAPSHOT ------------------------
Index/Crown Currency Latest Prev Pct change Pct change
close on day in 2009
Czech Equities <> 1128 1128 -1,11 31,44
vs Euro <EURCZK=> 25,998 25,93 -0,26 2,82
vs Dollar <CZK=> 17,197 17,136 -0,36 10,03
U.S. Equities <> 10464,4 10433,71 0,29 19,23
Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1600
==========================PRESS DIGEST========================
SAZKA: Standard & Poors cut rating of Czech betting company
Sazka to B from B+.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 18
SKODA POWER: South Korea's Doosan <034020.KS> received a 2
billion crown ($116.1 million) loan to fund its acquisition of
Czech turbine maker Skoda Power worth a total 11.5 billion
crowns. The loan was provided by banks Komercni Banka
<>, CSOB <KBC.BR>, Ceska Sporitelna <ERST.VI>,
Raiffeisen <RIBH.VI>, UniCredit <CRDI.MI>, and Slovakia's VUB.
Hospodarske Noviny, pqage 18
ECM: Developer ECM <> deepened a net loss for the
first nine months of the year to 28.08 million euros ($42.38
million) from 22.15 million in the same period last year.
WARSAW STOCK EXCHANGE: Four Czech companies plan to enter
Warsaw stock exchange's market NewConnect, a platform for
trading small caps.
Hospodarkse Noviny, page 24
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