Italy - Factors to watch on July 9 The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday. 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 . DEBT Treasury to sell up to 8.5 billion euros in bonds at July 11 auction .

Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions Adds Liberty Global, Crest Nicholson, NCR Voyix and Baxter International July 5 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2 000 GMT on Friday: * * Private equity firm Carlyle Group is in exclusive talks to acquire Baxter International's BAX.N kidney care spinoff Vantive for more than $4 billion, including debt, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions Adds: Thyssenkrupp, Dompe Farmaceutici, Crest Nicholson Updates: BBVA July 5 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Friday: ** Thyssenkrupp TKGA.DE , Salzgitter SZGG.DE and France's Vallourec VLLP.PA are reviewing a sale of their steel joint venture HKM after they were approached by a potential buyer, Germany's largest steelmaker said.

Italy's Dompe not interested in possible deal with rival drugmaker Recordati MILAN, July 5 (Reuters) - Italy's Dompe Farmaceutici is not interested in rival drugmaker Recordati RECI.MI , the biopharmaceutical group's chief executive and chairman said on Friday. "We had looked at it... it is a large company ...we are not on the file," Sergio Dompe told Reuter.

Recordati shares rise as investors reportedly circle CVC stake MILAN, June 18 (Reuters) - Shares in Italian drugmaker Recordati RECI.MI rose almost 3% on Tuesday, boosted by a report that investment funds KKR KKR.N and TPG TPG.O had expressed preliminary interest in buying a stake in the company. Speculation about the future of Recordati has increased after majority shareholder CVC Capital Partners CVC.AS hired investment banks JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to explore options for the pharmaceutica