WARSAW, Feb 27 - The following are significant news stories, press reports and events on Thursday. ALL TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 1 hour):
DATA
Statistical office will publish a preliminary estimate of Poland's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the fourth quarter at 0900. According to the first reading, it was 3.2% year-on-year.
BANK PEAKO SA
Poland's Pekao PEO.WA reported fourth-quarter profit above expectations on Thursday, boosted by higher-than-expected net interest income along with net fee and commission income.
ORLEN
On Thursday, Polish petrochemical company Orlen PKN.WA will publish its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024. Analysts expect the company's net profit to be 5.04 billion zlotys ($1.28 billion), down 31% year-on-year.
DEBT
State-owned Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) will hold a bond auction at 1100.
ANTI-MONOPOLY OFFICE
In 2024, the Polish anti-monopoly office imposed fines on companies amounting to almost 1 billion zlotys ($252.88 million). This is 300 million zlotys ($75.86 million) more than a year earlier, Puls Biznesu daily reported.
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