Czech Republic - Factors To Watch on Jan 23

PRAGUE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Here are news stories,
press reports and events to watch which may affect Czech
financial markets on Monday.

ALL TIMES GMT (Czech Republic: GMT + 1 hours)

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PRAGUE - Prime Minister Petr Necas and Defence Minister
Alexandr Vondra meeting Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for energy
Hussain al-Shahristani and other members of the Iraq's
government.

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NWR AGREES LOWER Q1 PRICES: Czech coal miner NWR
said on Monday it saw a drop in average agreed prices of coking
coal and coke in the first quarter of 2012.

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REZABEK SEES NO CHANGE IN INTEREST RATES: An increase in
Czech interest rates in the near term is unlikely as demand
pressures are limited and a cut is not needed either, central
bank board member Pavel Rezabek was quoted as saying.

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VIENNA INITIATIVE: Emerging Europe's financial stewards
scrambled this week to head off capital flight from the region,
but their plan to create a new "Vienna Initiative" faces bigger
challenges than the one that successfully backstopped lenders
two years ago.

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URANIUM: Czech state mining company Diamo has discovered new
reserves that are equal to five years of annual production and
worth 3 billion crowns ($152.59 million), company director Jiri
Jez said.

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CEZ TAKES DUKOVANY OFFLINE: Czech power group CEZ
will take the third unit of its Dukovany nuclear
power plant offline for one month on Saturday in the first
planned outage of 2012, it said.

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CEE MARKETS: The Hungarian forint gave up some of this
week's strong gains against the euro in a corrective move on
Friday as markets eyed Budapest's continuing struggle to secure
an aid deal, while other emerging European currencies were
mixed.

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CEE POWER: Czech power for the next working day rose on
Friday as wind generation levels were forecast to fall sharply
after the weekend, while Cal '13 also climbed higher.

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CME CHIEF SEES AD MARKET GROWING: Media group CME
chief Adrian Sarbu said he expected Czech
advertising to grow in the Czech Republic this year. He also
said 2011 OIBDA likely rose around 60 percent.

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