EMERGING EUROPE STOCKS - Factors to Watch Oct 10

                                
 WARSAW, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Central/Eastern
Europe's financial markets on Friday.
                                
 
                                
 OTP
                                
 Hungary's financial markets watchdog PSZAF has launched an
inquiry into a sell-off in shares of the country's top lender
OTP <OTPB.BU> on Thursday.                      [nLA604665]
                                
 Hungary's government and OTP both denied market talk late on
Thursday that the government was planning a fiscal rescue
package for the bank, and OTP said it was liquid and well
capitalised.                                [ID:nL9206059]

                                
 CURRENCIES
                                
 The zloty plunged 4.5 percent overnight and in the early
trade as financial turmoil took its toll on the Polish currency.
                                
                                              [nWAR007424]
                                
 Hungary's forint <EURHUF=D2> fell almost 3 percent to
two-year lows at 272 versus the euro in early trade on Friday as
a fresh wave of risk aversion triggered a sell-off in emerging
markets.                                         [nLA637605]

                                
 
                                
 ENEA
                                
 Polish state-owned power group Enea wants to finalise its
initial public offering (IPO) by mid-November, despite earlier
signals by the treasury ministry that the offer might be
postponed, it says.                            [ID:nL9331485]

                                
 EUROPEAN MARKETS
                                
 European stocks are set to fall sharply on Friday, tracking
slides in the U.S and Asian markets as fears of a global
recession mounted and efforts by government and central banks
failed to unlock credit markets.
                                
 Financial bookmakers expected Britain's FTSE 100 <.FTSE> to
open down as much as 7.1 percent, Germany's DAX <.GDAXI> to open
as much as 7.2 percent lower and France's CAC-40 <.FCHI> to be
as much as 8.2 percent lower in the open.
                                
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 WALL STREET
                                
 U.S stocks plummeted for a seventh straight session on
Thursday as investors bet recent moves by authorities worldwide
to thaw frozen credit markets would not be enough to avert a
global recession.
                                
 An avalanche of selling at the close left the Dow below
8,600 for the first time since May 2003, and down almost 40
percent from its all-time closing high hit exactly one year ago.
The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 each also fell to levels not seen in
more than five years.
                                
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 Pan European indices.....................<EUR/INDICES1>
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 REGIONAL INDICES
 Warsaw WIG20 <.WIG20>     Istanbul ISE National 100 <.XU100>
 Budapest SE Index <.BUX>  Bucharest Beti <.BETI>
 Prague PX <.PX>           Zagreb Crobex <.CRBEX>
 Sofia Sofix <.SOFIX>      Ljubljana SBI20 <.SBI>
 
 MSCI Global Emerging Markets <.MSCIEF>
 FTSEurofirst 300 <.FTEU3>