Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on May 31
PRAGUE, May 31 (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) =========================ECONOMIC DATA========================== Real-time economic data releases.................... Summary of economic data and forecasts........... Recently released economic data.................. Previous stories on Czech data............. **For a schedule of corporate and economic events: http://emea1.apps.cp.thomsonreuters.com/Apps/CountryWeb/#/2E/events-overview ============================NEWS/EVENTS========================= HOME CREDIT: Home Credit posts Q1 net loss after profit a year ago. VODAFONE: Vodafone Group closes $11.5 Bln SEC-registered bond offering; intends to use net proceeds from transaction to fund acquisition of Liberty Global's operations in Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania. MONDI: Mondi ends production of in-line silicone coated products at Steti, Czech Republic ARCA: Arca Capital, a top shareholder in AmTrust Financial , on Wednesday joined activist investor Carl Icahn in opposing the U.S. insurer's deal to be taken private. CEE MARKETS: Mild inflation figures weighed on the zloty and the leu fall amid fresh political uncertainty in Romania on Wednesday, while other central European units rebounded. =========================PRESS DIGEST=========================== BANKS: European owners of banks CSOB, Ceska Sporitelna, and Raiffeisenbank increased deposits in their Czech units last year, taking advantage of central bank interest hikes. The central bank has raised its main rate three times since last August, widening the differential with the euro zone. E15, https://zpravy.e15.cz/byznys/finance-a-bankovnictvi/ceske-banky-dluzi-matkam-miliardy-1347321 CIGARETTES: The Czech cigarette market fell 0.6 percent to 20.3 billion cigarettes last year. The newspaper said people are slowly starting to shift to smokeless alternatives. Hospodarske Noviny, page 2 ENERGY: EPH's unit EP Energy, which houses the power group's generation assets, posted a 17 percent drop in first-quarter EBITDA, to 3 billion crowns. Revenue fell 4.2 percent to 13.4 billion crowns. Hospodarske Noviny, page 14 (Reuters has not verified the stories, nor does it vouch for their accuracy.) ***For real-time stock market index quotes click in brackets: Warsaw WIG20 Budapest BUX Prague PX For updates on CEE markets TOP NEWS -- Emerging markets Prague Newsroom: +420 224 190 477 E-mail: prague.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com ($1 = 22.1770 Czech crowns) (Reporting by Prague Newsroom)