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Italy - Factors to watch on August 9



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The following factors could affect Italian markets on Friday.

Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy. New items are marked with (*).


For a complete list of diary events in Italy please click on IT/DIA.


POLITICS

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to avoid escalation in the Middle East during a call, the government said in a statement on Thursday.


ECONOMY

ISTAT releases July CPI final data (0800 GMT) and June foreign trade data (0900 GMT).

Bank of Italy releases June data on Italian residents deposits with domestic banks, banks lending to non-financial companies and gross bad loans at Italian banks.


DEBT

Treasury sells 7.5 billion euros ($8.18 billion) 12-month BOT bills. Subscriptions close at 0900 GMT.


COMPANIES

Milan Stock Exchange After Hours market closed.


(*) ASSICURAZIONI GENERALI GASI.MI

Italy's top insurer posted a rise in first-half operating profit thanks to its life and wealth management businesses, while its non-life segment suffered a rising impact from natural disasters, Italy's top insurer said on Friday.

Generali said it would start its share buyback plan up to 500 million euros on Aug. 12.

Conference call at 1000 GMT.


(*) UNIPOL UNPI.MI

The Italian financial group posted on Friday a 7% comparable yearly rise in its first-half net profit to 555 million euros, bolstered by the performance from non-life business.

Conference call at 0900 GMT.

(*) MONTE DEI PASCHI BMPS.MI

Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti has recently held some meetings over the bank's future, la Repubblica reported, adding that the government was hostile to BPER EMII.MI as a potential merger partner given the left-wing roots of its top shareholder Unipol.

As the rising market value of Monte dei Paschi makes it hard to consider Banco BPM BAMI.MI as a potential partner, the paper said Mediobanca MDBI.MI was being considered, adding a Goldman Sachs banker had instead proposed MPS presents a new stand-alone plan in September.


(*) BANKS

Italy's Economy Ministry is studying ways to strong-arm the country's banks into raising deposit remuneration, so as to boost cash customers keep on their accounts, putting a brake on the drain that's partly being caused by lenders' push on fees earned on the sale of financial products, la Repubblica reported on Friday.


(*) SARAS SRS.MI

Varas extended its mandatory takeover bid on the oil refiner, which was due to end on Friday, until Aug. 16, it said late on Thursday.

LEONARDO LDOF.MI

Rheinmetall RHMG.DE expects orders worth up to 25 billion euros from the Italian government for its joint tank-building venture with defence manufacturer Leonardo, the German defence group's CEO said on Thursday.


UNIEURO UNIR.MI

French retailer Fnac Darty FNAC.PA said on Thursday it had obtained from its lending banks the waivers required to go ahead with its bid for the Italian consumer electronics distributor.


(*) PIOVAN PVNA.MI

Berenberg cut to 'Hold' from 'Buy' its rating on the company, that produces equipment for storage, transport and processing of polymers and plastic powders.


CIVITANAVI SYSTEMS CNS.MI

Honeywell Srl ends full voluntary takeover offer on Civitanavi Systems shares.


DIARY

Italian beach concession holders plan to block access to services on Friday to protest against government.


For Italian market data and news, click on codes in
brackets:


20 biggest gainers (in percentage).............PG.MI

20 biggest losers (in percentage)..............PL.MI

FTSE IT allshare index .FTITLMS

FTSE Mib index........ .FTMIB

FTSE Allstars index... .FTSTAR

FTSE Mid Cap index.... .FTITMC

Block trades.......... .BLK.MI

Stories on Italy...... IT-LEN


For pan-European market data and news, click on codes in
brackets:

European Equities speed guide...................EUR/EQUITY

FTSEurofirst 300 index...............................FTEU3

DJ STOXX index.......................................STOXX

Top 10 STOXX sectors............................PGL.STOXXS

Top 10 EUROSTOXX sectors.......................PGL.STOXXES

Top 10 Eurofirst 300 sectors....................PGL.FTEU3S

Top 25 European pct gainers........................PG.PEUR

Top 25 European pct losers.........................PL.PEUR

Main stock markets:

Dow Jones................DJI Wall Street report ......N

Nikkei 225..............N225 Tokyo report.............T

FTSE 100................FTSE London report............L

Xetra DAX..............GDAXI Frankfurt market stories.F

CAC-40..................FCHI Paris market stories....PA

World Indices.....................................0#.INDEX

Reuters survey of world bourse outlook.........EQUITYPOLL1

Western European IPO diary..........................WEUIPO

European Asset Allocation........................EUR/ASSET

Reuters News at a Glance: Equities...............TOP/EQE

Main currency report:...............................FRX/



($1 = 0.9165 euros)


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