The main corporate event scheduled for the next week is Ceska sporitelna’s consolidated IAS results for 2000 on Thursday. On Wednesday, the Cabinet should decide whether to award a major contract to supply public offices with telecommunications services directly to Cesky Telecom, or whether to hold a tender. Papers say that the contract is worth of billions of crowns annually.
Czech macroeconomic figures due to be released next week include retail sales (January) on Monday, balance of payments (Q4 2000) on Tuesday and Q4 and 2000 GDP and foreign trade (February) on Thursday.
(Ondřej Daťka)