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Poland: Eurocash founder sells stock, raising questions about prospects
When a company’s founder, manager and leading shareholder decides to sell a big chunk of shares, smaller fry head for the exits – which is what happened on Wednesday on the Warsaw Stock Exchange after...
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Warsaw aims for $260m from PAK sale
The Polish government is going ahead with the largest initial public offering on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the last year, the sale of its 50 per cent stake in the country’s fifth-largest power...
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Warsaw Stock Exchange chief suspended
Ludwik Sobolewski (left), head of the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2006, was suspended late Friday “for compelling reasons” by a hurriedly convened management board meeting. The exchange’s brief...
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Warsaw SE: shopping centre IPO pop masks liquidity problems
At first glance, Friday’s stock market launch of Czerwona Torebka – a Polish shopping centre operator – was good news, with the stock jumping by more than 50 per cent on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. But...
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Warsaw bourse sacks CEO
The Warsaw Stock Exchange on Thursday dismissed its high-profile chief executive, Ludwik Sobolewski, according to Polish media reports. He was suspended last month following a probe into claims he...
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New man at the WSE: back to basics
Adam Maciejewski, the new head of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (pictured), is promising to be a much lower key executive than his predecessor – probably a good thing after Ludwik Sobolewski was fired this...
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Polish property IPO builds interest
Poland’s real estate sector has been a little lacklustre in recent years, but that has not not dissuaded investors from taking a flyer on PHN, a government controlled property holding which had its IPO...
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Warsaw listing for doorstep lender
The turbulent global economy seems not to be harming the prospects of International Personal Finance, a small cash loan company with operations across central Europe and Mexico, which expects double...
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Warsaw-Vienna stock exchanges: flirting, not fighting
The old adage about getting further with honey than with vinegar holds true for flies, and looks to be just as valid for stock exchanges, as Warsaw’s exchange begins to flirt with its long-time rival...
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Algorithmic trading comes to Warsaw
A quiet day on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Tuesday as it shut its doors to digest the results of its first day of a new trading system supplied by the NYSE. The Universal Trading Platform (UTP)...
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WSE gets tough with New Connect
The Warsaw Stock Exchange is tightening the screws on its often-unruly younger sibling, the New Connect alternative market for small companies, by halting trading in 14 companies that failed to file...
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CEE stock exchanges: Czech Republic sows confusion
Normally, when a country’s president weighs in on a potential merger of national stock exchanges, the response is enthusiastic. But the unexpected backing by the Czech Republic’s Milos Zeman for a...
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Sobolewski, the sequel: from Warsaw to Bucharest
Capitalism is supposed to be all about second acts – getting up after failing, and using the experience to do better the next time around. That’s the path taken by Ludwik Sobolewski, fired as head of...
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Poland: goodbye Wig20, hello Wig30
The Warsaw Stock Exchange is to launch a new, expanded WIG30 index of its 30 largest and most liquid listed companies next month. The WSE hopes the move will boost interest among investors in the...
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Poland: markets tumble on pension reform
The Warsaw Stock Exchange was the worst performer in the world on Thursday, the result of dramatic changes to the country’s pension system announced a day earlier which removed a key support for equity...
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Polish rail lines up IPO of cargo unit
The Warsaw Stock Exchange has had a lacklustre year in terms of new issues. But it could end 2013 with a bang with the planned IPO of PKP Cargo SA, the country’s largest rail cargo operator and the...
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Warsaw exchange: hello China
The Warsaw Stock Exchange has long been hunting for new listings far beyond Poland’s borders, but if it looks much further than its latest new IPO it will fall into the Pacific Ocean. The exchange’s...
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Laying the groundwork for the largest initial public offering this year on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, PKP, the Polish state railways announced on Wednesday that it was setting a 68 zlotys ($22.30)...
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Polish cargo IPO: hot stuff
Carrying cargo may appear to be dull but worthy work, but there is also a lot of money in it, as investors in PKP Cargo, the Polish rail cargo carrier, found out during the company’s Tuesday IPO. The...
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Poland’s Energa: first day slump
Initial public offerings, especially those tied to privatisations by Poland’s treasury ministry, have the reputation for being money spinners, but there is no such thing as a risk-free investment, as...
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