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NOTIZIARIO DEL 10.03.2008

* BOSNIA *

Bosnia Serb Republic Jan Tourist Numbers Rise 15% Y/Y - Table Mar 10, 2008, 10:31 CET | Story | SeeNews BANJA LUKA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), March 10 (SeeNews) - The number of tourists in Bosnia’s Serb Republic totalled 17,663 in January, up 15% compared to the same month of 2007, official data showed on Monday. link

BOSNIA 2007 C/A DEFICIT WIDENS 72% TO 1.403 BLN EURO - C-BANK Mar 10, 2008, 15:01 CET | Alert | SeeNews link

Bosnia 2007 C/A Deficit Widens 72% to 1.403 Bln Euro - Table Mar 10, 2008, 15:24 CET | Story | SeeNews SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bosnia’s current account gap widened by 72% in 2007 to 2.739 billion marka ($2.158 billion/1.403 billion euro), central bank statistics showed on Monday. link

Bosnia Schedule of Events - March 10 - May 9 Mar 10, 2008, 10:01 CET | Story | SeeNews SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), March 10 (SeeNews) - Following is a schedule of corporate, economic and political events taking place in or related to Bosnia and Herzegovina through May 9. New or amended entries are marked (*). link

* BULGARIA *

UK-Listed Bulgarian Land Development Buys Land for 1.7 Mln Euro near Sofia Mar 10, 2008, 10:24 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - London-listed Bulgarian Land Development (BLD) said on Monday it had bought 38,146 square metres of agricultural land near the capital Sofia for 1.7 million euro ($2.6 million) where it plans to develop a residential project. link

BSE - Daily Bulletin, Selected Announcements - Mar 7, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:12 CET | Specialists Reports | SeeNews Billboard AD-Sofia, BSE code - BOARD, has submitted the following information to X3 News:The Board of Directors of BILLBOARD JSC would like to inform the shareholders, all investors and stakeholders that the company successfully passed the periodical quality audit under ISO 9001:2000.The entire notification is available at link

Bulgaria’s Dinevi Group Wants To Build Marina in Azerbaijan, Second Marina at Home Mar 10, 2008, 12:50 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian construction company Dinevi Group wants to build a marina in Azerbaijan and a second marina in its home country, a company official said on Monday. link

Bulgarian IT Market Grows 23.4% to 800 Mln Euro in 2007 Mar 10, 2008, 13:25 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria’s IT market grew by a preliminary 23.4% to 800 million euro ($1.2 million) in 2007, an official of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications said on Monday. link

Sofia-Listed Medica To Sign 10.2 Mln Euro Deal with Majority Owner Sopharma Mar 10, 2008, 13:26 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Sofia-listed sanitary materials producer Medica on Monday said it plans to sign a 20 million lev ($15.7 million/10.2 million euro) five-year contract with its majority owner drug maker Sopharma to produce medicines under the Sopharma brand. link

Bulgaria’s FairPlay Properties Raises 5.9 Mln Euro in Capital Hike Mar 10, 2008, 14:01 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian real estate investment trust FairPlay Properties said on Monday it raised some 11.5 million levs ($9.0 million/5.9 million euro) for investments in a capital hike, half the initial target. link

INTERVIEW – Bulgaria’s DSK Bank Sees 2008 Net Profit Rising up to 12% Mar 10, 2008, 15:51 CET | Interview | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria’s DSK Bank, owned by Hungarian banking group OTP, expects its 2008 net profit to rise by up to 12% from the 186 million levs ($145.9/95.1 million) it posted for last year and will aim to keep its position on a growing market, the bank’s CEO, Violina Marinova, said on Monday. link

Bulgarian Meat Processor Mekom Prices IPO at 1.13 Euro/Share Mar 10, 2008, 16:05 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian meat processor Mekom has priced its initial public offering (IPO) at 2.2 levs ($1.72/1.13 euro) per share, the minimum price set in its prospectus, the issue’s lead manager said on Monday. link

Bulgaria’s Blue-Chip Chimimport Acquires 100% of Local Company Molet Mar 10, 2008, 17:04 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian blue-chip industrial conglomerate Chimimport on Monday said it has bought 100% of local company Molet for an undisclosed price. link

INTERVIEW - Heineken’s Bulgarian Unit Can Raise Exports to 10% of Ouput in 10 Years Mar 10, 2008, 17:08 CET | Interview | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian brewery Zagorka, part of Dutch brewing group Heineken, can inrease its exports to up to 10% of its output in a period of 10 years, Zagorka’s executive director, Jan Derck van Karnebeek, said. link

Bulgarian REIT Agro Finance To Issue up to 2.6 Mln Euro Bond Mar 10, 2008, 17:54 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian real estate investment trust (REIT) Agro Finance, majority-owned by Dutch-based TBIH Financial Services Group, plans to issue up to 5.0 million levs ($3.9 million/2.6 million euro) in three-year bonds to back growth. link

Bulgaria Raises Concession Fee for Canada’s Dundee in Chelopech Gold/Copper Mine Mar 10, 2008, 18:40 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria has agreed a higher concession fee with Canadian mining company Dundee Precious Metals for operating the Chelopech gold, silver and copper mine, the government in Sofia said on Monday. link

BULGARIA’S JAN INDUSTRIAL SALES DOWN 11.8% M/M, UP 11.5% Y/Y - STATS OFFICE Mar 10, 2008, 13:04 CET | Alert | SeeNews link

BULGARIA’S JAN INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT FALLS 14% M/M, RISES 8.5% Y/Y - STATS OFFICE Mar 10, 2008, 13:05 CET | Alert | SeeNews link

Bulgaria’s Jan Industrial Output Falls 14% M/M - Table Mar 10, 2008, 13:11 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria’s January industrial output fell by 14% month-on-month, after rising at a revised monthly rate of 0.6% in December, preliminary data of the National Statistics Institute (NSI) showed on Monday. link

Bulgaria’s January Industrial Sales Fall 11.8% M/M - Table Mar 10, 2008, 13:13 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria’s January industrial sales fell by 11.8% month-on-month after going down by a revised 1.4% in December, preliminary data of the National Statistics Institute (NSI) showed on Monday. link

Yields on Bulgaria’s 10-Yr Fixed-rate T-Notes Fall Mar 10, 2008, 15:17 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - The average annual yield on a 35 million lev ($27.5 million/17.9 million euro) issue of 10-year fixed-rate Treasury notes fell to 4.78% on Monday from 5.17% in the previous auction held in January and below dealers’ expectations, the central bank said. link

Elana - Bulgaria Daily Report - Mar 7, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:14 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews MARKET HIGHLIGHTS link

Karoll - Bulgarian Stock Market Overview - Mar 04 - 07, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:21 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews Commentary link

FFBH - Bulgaria Morning Update - Mar 6, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:23 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews MARKET WRAP-UPThe market made another step back on Wednesday. All indices lostvalue pushed down by sell pressure in the large majority of the shares. The volumes remained bellow average with the exception of Industrial Holding Bulgaria (IHLBL, BGN 7.71, - 0.50%) where close to 3 million shares changed hands at BGN 7.90. Quite descent volume of more than 64k shares was traded in Neochim (NEOH, BGN 59.92, +5.05%), but the gain was fully offset by Petrol (PET, BGN 5.01, -3.09%) and Sparky Eltos (ELTOS, BGN 12.16, -2.95%) and at the end SOFIX closed at 1385.61 bps (-0.06%). The price weighted BG40 stepped 2.40% down to 390.80 bps after the declines in Odessos Shiprepair Yard (ODES, BGN 267.30, -4.54%) and Fazerles (FZLES, BGN 211.50, -3.42%). The equally weighted BGTR30 fixed 880.76 bps (-0.63%) with the most interesting changes coming from Synergon Holding (PETHL, BGN 10.47, -3.32%), Orgachim (ORGH, BGN 467.00, -2.91%) and Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT (BREF, BGN 1.90, -2.76%) . link

FFBH - Bulgaria Morning Update - Mar 7, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:26 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews MARKET WRAP-UPThe indices moved in opposite directions on Thursday. The sentiment seemed to be predominantly negative in the beginning but later some support from buyers appeared. At the end SOFIX closed at 1382.24 bps (-0.24%) after the gains from Sopharma (SFARM, BGN 7.30, +3.15%) and Industrial Holding Bulgaria (IHLBL, BGN 7.88, +2.19%) were more than offset by Monbat (MONBAT, BGN 28.40, -2.06%) and Petrol (PET, BGN 4.77, -4.87%). Only 8 shares traded in Odessos Shiprepair Yard (ODES) moved the price 4.75% up to BGN 280.00 and helped BG40 to fix 391.92 bps (+0.29%). The equally weighted BGTR30 stepped 0.07% down to 880.18 bps pushed down mainly by Monbat and Petrol. Vouchers declined again and closed in the 0.4356 – 0.4362 range with more than 238k traded. link

Elana - BSE-Sofia Weekly Overview - Feb 29, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 11:01 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews Market TrendBulgarian indices posted series of weak sessions during the week. Falling foreign markets pressured BSE and it is unlikely that the picture would change in short term. Speculators remained the main players on the downside but modest pressure from foreign investors was also visible. SOFIX and BG40 lost around 5% on weekly basis and moved close to their recent bottoms. The broad-based losses of indices on weekly base were increased by the strong performance of blue chips during the last session of February. The market is looking for bottom as volumes remain moderate and main players are speculators. However, investors are not yet reluctant to ignore the negative trend in world markets. link

Construction Firms, Blue-Chip Chimimport Drag Bulgarian Stock Indices Down Mar 10, 2008, 15:01 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Construction firms and blue-chip industrial conglomerate Chimimport dragged down the stock indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) on Monday, dealers said. link

FFBH - Bulgaria Weekly Update - Mar 4 - 7, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 16:37 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews MARKET WRAP-UPSOFIX lost 4.9% last week and closed at 1 359.72 bps while BG40 moved South to 387.45 bps (-5.5% WoW) thus continuing the negative wave from the last 2 months. The major influence on the trend came from foreign markets as there were no signs for slow down in the performance of the Bulgarian public companies. Last week we saw some minor increase in turnover, but volumes traded on BSE still remain much lower than usual. In the first week of March the gainer was Neochim (NEOH) which added 5.1% to BGN 59.90 but it could not offset the losses registered by most of the blue chip companies. link

Bulgaria Schedule of Events - March 10 - Nov 25 Mar 10, 2008, 09:00 CET | Story | SeeNews SOFIA (Bulgaria), March 10 (SeeNews) - Following is a schedule of corporate, economic and political events taking place in or related to Bulgaria through November 25. New or amended entries are marked (*). link

STS Finance - Daily FX Analysis - Mar 10, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:29 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews Another record low for dollar after non-farm payrolls data link

* CROAZIA *

CROATIA’S FEB PPI RISES 0.3% M/M, UP 7.5% Y/Y - STATS OFFICE Mar 10, 2008, 12:20 CET | Alert | SeeNews link

Croatia’s Feb Industrial PPI Rises 0.3% M/M, Up 7.5% Y/Y - Table Mar 10, 2008, 13:09 CET | Story | SeeNews ZAGREB (Croatia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Croatia’s February producer price index (PPI) of industrial goods rose by 0.3% on the month and was 7.5% higher than a year earlier, the State Statistics Bureau said on Monday. link

Erste Securities - Croatian Equity Daily - Mar 10, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:34 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews Highlights: link

Croatia Schedule of Events – Mar 10 – May 17 Mar 10, 2008, 09:08 CET | Story | SeeNews ZAGREB (Croatia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Following is a schedule of corporate, economic and political events taking place in or related to Croatia through May 17. New or amended entries are marked (*). link

* MACEDONIA *

MACEDONIA’S JANUARY TRADE GAP WIDENS 45.1% Y/Y TO $182.97 MLN – STATS OFFICE Mar 10, 2008, 10:28 CET | Alert | SeeNews link

Macedonia’s Jan Trade Gap Rises by 45.1% Y/Y - Table Mar 10, 2008, 10:42 CET | Story | SeeNews SKOPJE (Macedonia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Macedonia’s trade deficit increased by 45.1% year-on-year to a preliminary $182.97 million (118.9 million euro) in January, the State Statistics Office said on Monday. link

* MOLDOVA *

Moldova Cuts Price for Insolvent Drug Maker Perfuzon’s Assets to 7.5 Mln Euro from 8.0 Mln Euro Mar 10, 2008, 12:08 CET | Story | SeeNews CHISINAU (Moldova), March 10 (SeeNews) - Moldova said on Monday it cut the call price in a tender for the sale of pharmaceutical company Perfuzo’s assets and trademarks to 7.5 million euro ($11.5 million) from eight million euro. link

Moldova Schedule of Events - March 10 - May 15 Mar 10, 2008, 10:29 CET | Story | SeeNews CHISINAU (Moldova), March 10 (SeeNews) - Following is a schedule of corporate, economic and political events taking place in, or related to Moldova through May 15. New or amended entries are marked (*) link

* MONTENEGRO *

Montenegro Invites Investors to Show Interest in Developing Tourism Firm Velika Plaza Mar 10, 2008, 17:34 CET | Story | SeeNews PODGORICA (Montenegro), March 10 (SeeNews) – Montenegro’s government said on Monday it will invite investors to show interest in the development of its tourism company Velika Plaza under a project worth over one billion euro. link

* ROMANIA *

Romania’s GDP Growth Seen at 6.5% in 2008, Inflation at 5.4% - Govt Econ Advisers Mar 10, 2008, 12:33 CET | Story | SeeNews BUCHAREST (Romania), March 10 (SeeNews) - Romania’s National Prognoses Commission (CNP) has said it forecasts the country’s economic growth at 6.5% this year in real terms and end-year consumer price inflation at 5.4%. link

ANALYST FORECAST - Higher Gas Prices Boost Romania’s Feb Annual Inflation, Rate Hike Likely in March Mar 10, 2008, 14:22 CET | Analysis | SeeNews BUCHAREST (Romania), March 10 (SeeNews) - An increase in gas prices is expected to have boosted Romania’s annual consumer price inflation in February and the central bank is likely to raise its key interest rate later this month, for a third time this year, analysts said. link

Romania Fines Healthcare Companies 5.9 Mln Lei (1.6 Mln Euro) for Unfair Competition Mar 10, 2008, 10:54 CET | Story | SeeNews BUCHAREST (Romania), March 10 (SeeNews) - Romania’s competition regulator said on Monday it has fined three healthcare service providers a total of 5.9 million lei ($2.4 million/1.6 million euro) over fostering unfair competition on the dialysis products and services market. link

Orange Romania Customers Reach Ten Million Mar 10, 2008, 13:45 CET | Story | SeeNews BUCHAREST (Romania), March 10 (SeeNews) - France Telecom’s Romanian unit, Orange Romania, said on Monday it has expanded its customers base to 10 million clients. link

Czech Zentiva’s Romanian Unit ’07 Prelim Net Profit Falls 82% to 4.26 Mln Lei (1.1 Mln Euro) - Table Mar 10, 2008, 15:53 CET | Story | SeeNews BUCHAREST (Romania), March 10 (SeeNews) - Zentiva S.A., the Romanian arm of Czech drug maker Zentiva, on Monday reported an 82% fall in its last year’s net profit to 4.26 million lei ($1.76 million/1.15 million euro). link

Ieba Trust - Romanian Market Daily - Mar 7, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:15 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews For the week, the BSE indices registered increases higher than 0.5% Raiffeisen Capital & Investment - Investment Daily Romania - Mar 10, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:32 CET | Broker's Report | SeeNews Trader's Comment [link->http://seenews.com/news/latestnews/raiffeisencapital_investment-investmentdailyromania-mar10_2008-084750" class="spip_out">link

Confident Invest - Weekly Update - Mar 8, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 10:04 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews AbstractA week ago, FED chief, Ben Bernanke emphasized once again the three major problems the American economy is confronting with: the risk of falling into a recession, the financial markets turmoil as well as the health of the consumer. But the official recognition of these economical problems and the week results released by the financial companies weren’t liable to cause another strong slump of the capital markets. The insurance companies directly related to the mortgage US sector were the latest to report significant losses. The global economic news with negative impact doesn’t seem to impress anymore investors and the few positive ones aren’t, apparently, stimulating enough. Therefore, the tensions between the sellers not willing to reduce the price anymore and the disbelief of the buyers regarding a possible revival of the ascendant trend of the markets, induced a strong opposition which determined lower volatilities, at least lower than the ones we witnessed si nce the beginning of the year.An incipient consolidation period is possible after the strong corrections, but the current macro economical conditions don’t foreshadow a quick bulls’ come back. Some of the following reasons could maintain the current state of uncertainty: the slow down of the American economy, the jobless rate, the construction sector problems, the historical level of foreclosures (according to CNN Money, over 900.000 households are in the foreclosure process, up 71% from a year ago) , the level of inflation for the European Union which exceeded the 2% target (the EU inflation had the fastest pace in 14 year and the European Central Bank decided to keep unchanged its benchmark rate to 4%), the oil prices, which rose above 105$/barrel.Further, there is only one dilemma which remains to be solved: is the current downside trend going to continue? We believe that the answer is yes and that we won’t see any time now a revival of the capital markets, as the f inancial results for the future quarters (at least the 1st and the d of 2008) which will be released by the national and foreign companies could negatively surprise the investors since these results will cover the economical activity carried on through the most agitated period since the beginning of the financial turbulences (the last quarter of 2007 and the 1st one of 2008).Despite the economical grounds and the natural markets correlations, we believe that the upturn for the Bucharest Stock Exchange could be influenced by the investment attitude, typical for the undeveloped markets: too high expectations as against the real economical possibilities.Last weekLast week BET and BET-C lost 2.12% and 1.28% respectively, while BET-FI went down 1.85%. The average trading volume lost 54.11% to 21.75 million lei daily, while the market capitalization went down 3.37 percent to 112.54 billion lei. link

KD Capital Management - Bucharest Stock Exchange - Weekly Report - Mar 03 - 07, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 11:19 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews 1. STOCK EXCHANGE OVERVIEW link

Romanian Bourse Closes Mostly Up, Seen Stable Mar 10, 2008, 16:19 CET | Story | SeeNews BUCHAREST (Romania), March 10 (SeeNews) - Romanian share indices closed mostly higher on Monday, in low volumes, and brokers said the market is showing signs of stabilisation. link

Romania Schedule of Events - March 10 - May 15 Mar 10, 2008, 09:19 CET | Story | SeeNews BUCHAREST (Romania), March 10 (SeeNews) - Following is a schedule of corporate, economic and political events taking place in or related to Romania through May 15. New or amended entries are marked (*). link

Romanian Leu Ends Slightly Weaker vs Euro in Low Volumes, Calm Trade Mar 10, 2008, 17:04 CET | Story | SeeNews BUCHAREST (Romania), March 10 (SeeNews) - The Romanian leu ended a little weaker at 3.72 per euro on Monday amid calm trading, dealers said. link

* SERBIA *

Serbia’s Q4 New Car Registrations Up 11.7% Y/Y - Table Mar 10, 2008, 13:46 CET | Story | SeeNews BELGRADE (Serbia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Registrations of new passenger cars in Serbia rose by an annual 11.7% to 20,117 in the fourth quarter of 2007, the country’s statistics office said on Monday. link

SERBIA’S JAN FOREIGN DEBT RISES TO $26.3 BLN FROM $26.2 BLN IN DEC - C-BANK Mar 10, 2008, 14:33 CET | Alert | SeeNews link

Serbia’s Jan Foreign Debt Rises 0.15% to $26.275 Bln - Table Mar 10, 2008, 14:42 CET | Story | SeeNews BELGRADE (Serbia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Serbia’s foreign debt rose to $26.275 billion (17.12 billion euro) at the end of January from $26.236 billion a month earlier, central bank preliminary figures showed on Monday. link

Vojvodjanska Banka - Daily Vobnews - Mar 10, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 09:35 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews Vojvodjanska banka released its Daily Vobnews Report for March 10, 2008 containing the following charts and tables: link

Sinteza Investment Group - Weekly Market WrapUp, Mar 3 - 7, 2008 Mar 10, 2008, 10:15 CET | Broker’s Report | SeeNews Kostunica Calls For New Elections in MaySojaprotein Announces 2007 ResultsPolitical instability continues to force prices down despite companys’ annoucements of good performance in 2007. Both indexes dropped substantially as a result of political uncertainty. BELEX15 fell by -7.03% this week while BELEXline lost - 4.49% of its value.The most traded stock this week was Nis based AIK Bank (BSE: AIKB) withRSD 223 mln of trade this week with the other stocks well under this benchmark. The overall turnover for the market was 133% higher than last week which can be attributed to AIK Bank’s increased liquidity. Oil makers Vital (BSE: VITL) and Sunce (BSE: SNCE) will distribute a hybrid sun flower seed to farmers in order to have priority purchase after the harvest. Agrohem (BSE: AGRH), a reputable fertilizer producer provided farmers with 20,000 tons of industrial fertilizer this season. Serbian economists speculate a 15% annual inflation rate which is twice the planned inflation ra te. The management board of Sombormlina (BSE: SOML) approved the takeover bid from East Point Holdings LTD. State run Srbijagas has requested a 20% price hike due to ever increasing gas prices imported from Russia. Sojaprotein (BSE: SJPT) has published its 2007 results which place the company with a net income of RSD 1.25 bln which is 90% over 2006 results. The bonds market suffered from lower turnover this week as trading decreased by 26% compared to last week’s performance. The most traded bond was A2016 with over EUR 440 thousand of turnover and a price increase of 0.13% The bond with the greatest decrease in price was A2013 which lost -1.51% of last week’s value. link

Belgrade Blue-chip Index Falls 4.8%, Traders Dismiss Political Instability as Reason Mar 10, 2008, 13:07 CET | Story | SeeNews BELGRADE (Serbia), March 10 (SeeNews) – The blue-chip index of the Belgrade Stock Exchange, BELEX15, lost nearly five percent on Monday morning but brokers said the government’s intention to resign later in the day had no impact on trading, as investors remained on hold. link

Belgrade Shares Fall Sharply amid Investor Concern on Serbia’s Political Crisis over Kosovo Mar 10, 2008, 17:41 CET | Story | SeeNews BELGRADE (Serbia), March 10 (SeeNews) – Belgrade Stock Exchange (BELEX) share indices fell sharply on Monday in lower volumes, with the blue-chip benchmark dropping 4.55%, after Serbia’s political crisis due to Kosovo’s independence declaration escalated with the prime minister’s resignation on Saturday, brokers said. link

Serbia Schedule of Events - March 10 - May 18 Mar 10, 2008, 09:27 CET | Story | SeeNews BELGRADE (Serbia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Following is a schedule of corporate, economic and political events taking place in or related to Serbia through May 18. New or amended entries are marked (*). link

Serbian FX Market Does Not React to News of PM’s Resignation - Dealers Mar 10, 2008, 11:49 CET | Story | SeeNews BELGRADE (Serbia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Serbia’s foreign exchange market on Monday morning remained unaffected by the prime minister’s decision in the weekend to resign on differences within the government on the Kosovo issue and their impact on the country’s European Union prospects, dealers said. link

SERBIA’S GOVT PROPOSES PARLIAMENT TO BE DISSOLVED, EARLY ELECTIONS TO BE HELD MAY 11 Mar 10, 2008, 12:46 CET | Alert | SeeNews link

Serbia’s Govt Proposes Parliament To Be Dissolved, Early Elections To Be Held on May 11 Mar 10, 2008, 13:20 CET | Story | SeeNews BELGRADE (Serbia), March 10 (SeeNews) – Serbia’s coalition government on Monday proposed to President Boris Tadic to dissolve parliament and call early general elections for May 11, the cabinet said. link

* SLOVENIA *

Slovenia’s Mobitel Plans To Raise Investments to 60 Mln Euro This Year Mar 10, 2008, 17:37 CET | Story | SeeNews LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Slovenia’s largest mobile phone operator Mobitel, part of the Telekom Slovenije group, plans to invest 60 million euro ($87.72 million) this year mainly in the development of its network and new services, it said on Monday. link

Slovenian Flag Carrier Adria Airways Raises Jan-Feb Passenger Traffic by 26% Y/Y Mar 10, 2008, 18:13 CET | Story | SeeNews LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Slovenian flag carrier Adria Airways carried some 151,000 passengers in the first two months of 2008, up 26% from a year earlier, as the number of flights also increased, the company said on Monday. link

SLOVENIA’S 2007 GDP UP 6.1% AFTER RISING BY 5.7% IN 2006 - STATS OFFICE Mar 10, 2008, 10:30 CET | Alert | SeeNews link

Slovenia’s Economic Growth Accelerates to 6.1% in 2007 - Table Mar 10, 2008, 10:37 CET | Story | SeeNews LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Slovenia’s economy grew by a real 6.1% in 2007, faster than the 5.7% growth recorded in a year earlier, the Statistics Office said on Monday. link

UPDATE 1 - Slovenia’s Economic Growth Accelerates to 6.1% in 2007 Mar 10, 2008, 11:19 CET | Story | SeeNews (adds details)... link

UPDATE 2 - Slovenia’s Economic Growth Accelerates to 6.1% in 2007 Mar 10, 2008, 16:55 CET | Story | SeeNews (adds analyst comment) link

Slovenian Stock Indices Fall Further in Dull Trading Mar 10, 2008, 17:56 CET | Story | SeeNews LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Slovenian stock indices fell further in dull trading on Monday and brokers said they expect no significant changes in the market this week. link

Slovenia Schedule of Events - March 10 - May 15 Mar 10, 2008, 09:42 CET | Story | SeeNews LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), March 10 (SeeNews) - Following is a schedule of corporate, economic and political events taking place in or related to Slovenia through May 15. New or amended entries are marked (*). link

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