PRAGUE, May 13 (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 + 2 hours)
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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 - Chemicals group Unipetrol <>, a unit of
Poland's PKN Orlen <PKNA.WA> news conference on Q1 results at
0900 GMT, conference call at 1200 GMT.
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UNIPETROL Q1: Czech downstream oil group Unipetrol
<> swung to a first-quarter net profit of 309 million
crowns ($15.37 million) after five straight quarterly losses,
it said on Thursday.
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TOCR Q1: Telefonica O2 Czech Republic <> posted a
bigger-than-expected 24 percent drop in first-quarter earnings,
hit by restructuring costs and a fall in mobile and fixed-line
voice services revenue.
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CEE FX RISE ON GDP DATA: Stronger GDP readings in central
Europe's export-driven economies gave their currencies a lift on
Wednesday but market concerns about fallout from the euro zone's
debt crisis persisted.
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CZECH SPOT PRICES EASE: Czech spot prices eased on Wednesday
ahead of a public holiday in the region that sapped demand and
as temperatures rose from below seasonal averages seen in recent
weeks.
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BOND AUCTION: The Czech Finance Ministry sold more than
planned at a 5-year bond auction on Wednesday, in what analysts
said was a sign domestic issuance would pick up.
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CBANK HITS BACK AT ECB'S CRITICISM: The Czech central bank
(CNB) protested a European Central Bank report on Wednesday that
called for a capital hike to cover multi-billion euro CNB losses
to safeguard its independence and prepare for euro adoption.
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CSOB PROFIT JUMPS: Net profit at KBC's <KBC.BR> Czech bank
CSOB jumped 26 percent to 3.88 billion crowns ($193 million) in
the first quarter thanks to revaluations of collateralised debt
obligations, CSOB said on Wednesday.
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POLLS: Support for the Czech left-wing Social Democrats has
slipped, eroding its position for government-building after a
May 28-29 election, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
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INDUSTRY PROPS UP EAST EUROPE GDP: A surge in industrial
orders from Western Europe drove growth in the European Union's
emerging east in the first quarter, but analysts said looming
fiscal tightening will keep the expansion muted for most of the
year.
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Q1 GDP BELOW FCAST: The Czech economy grew less than
expected in the first three months of the year, data showed on
Wednesday, expanding by 0.2 percent on what analysts said was a
rise in industry but weak domestic demand.
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Index/Crown Currency Latest Prev Pct change Pct change
close on day in 2010
Czech Equities <> -- 1235.5 2.35 10.58
vs Euro <EURCZK=> 25.36 25.43 0.28 3.64
vs Dollar <CZK=> 20.021 20.063 0.21 -8.95
U.S. Equities <> 10896.91 10748.26 1.38 4.5
Pvs close or current levels vs prior domestic close at 1500 GMT
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