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WOOD Daily: GR6 BU; TPEIR GA; FIVE LI; PL Utilities; RO Macro; MTSS RX; DIGI RO; MONET CP; BOCH CY; TBCG LN; KCEL KZ; MTELEKOM HB

HEADLINES:
• Gradus: better days should come, but uncertainty remains (downgraded to HOLD)
• Piraeus Bank: BoD decides terms of the capital increase
• X5: 1Q21 sales up 8.1% yoy NEGATIVE
• Polish utilities: ministry presents coal assets carve out plan
• Romania macro: S&P revises outlook to stable from negative, affirms rating at BBB- POSITIVE
• Mobile TeleSystems: recommends RUB 26.51 DPS from the 2020 net profit POSITIVE
• DIGI Communications: Romanian governments adopts draft law on 5G equipment restrictions NEGATIVE
• MONETA Money Bank: PPF obtains CNB's approval for holding up to 30% of MONETA NEUTRAL
• Bank of Cyprus: issues Tier 2 notes
• TBC Bank: three directors who stepped down recently to stand for re-election NEGATIVE
• Kcell: 1Q21E preview - 19% yoy adjusted EBITDA growth expected (due on 29 April)
• Magyar Telekom: 1Q21E preview - 8% yoy growth in EBITDA expected (due on 11 May)
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Bank of Cyprus PCL

Digi Communications NV

Enea S.A.

ENEA is engaged in production of electricity and heat; trade in electricity; and distribution of electricity.

Kcell Joint Stock Company

Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka S.A.

Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka is a hard coal manufacturing group based in Poland. Co.'s core business activities are mining and agglomeration of hard coal. The energetic coal sold by Co. is used mainly for the generation of electric and thermal energy as well as for cement production. Co.'s customers are mainly the industrial companies, first of all those acting in the power industry and situated in east and northern - east Poland. Co.'s mine is located in the part of Lubelskie Coal Basin (LZW) and performs its mining operations within the mining area with surface of 57 km2.

Magyar Telekom Telecommunications

Magyar Telekom is engaged in the providing fixed line and mobile telecommunication services for public and business customers. Co. provides voice and non-voice (SMS, MMS, internet, data and content provision) within mobile services; voice, data, internet and TV services within fixed line services. In addition, Co. sells equipment needed for using fixed line and mobile services (telephones, tablets, notebooks, TV sets etc.).

Mobile TeleSystems PJSC

Mobile Telesystems is a provider of mobile cellular communications services in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to consumers and corporate customers, employing technology based primarily on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). Co. had a mobile subscriber base of around 102.5 million (77.3 million in Russia, 20.4 million in Ukraine, 2.1 million in Turkmenistan, 1.6 million in Uzbekistan and 1.1 million in Armenia). In addition to standard voice services, Co. provides improved services, including voice mail, short message service, general packet radio service, and various SMS- and GPRS-based information and entertainment services.

MONETA Money Bank AS

Moneta Money Bank as is a Czech Republic-based retail and expanding small and medium enterprises (SME) bank. The Company holds an universal banking licence and provides a range of retail and SME-focused financial products and services. The Company operates through a national distribution network of 229 branches and through alternative distribution channels, such as the internet, its call centre, auto dealers, brokers and approximately 4,700 leasing partners. The Company together with its controlled subsidiaries offers current accounts, savings accounts, term deposits and transactional banking products including payment services and debit cards, consumer loans, credit cards, overdrafts, mortgages and auto loans, auto leases and other complementary products such as bancassurance and sales of investment funds.

PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A.

PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna is an electricity company based in Poland. Co. is engaged in the generation and selling of electricity. Co. is a predominant power producer and supplier in Poland and a major heat and power sector company in Central and Eastern Europe. Co. supplies over 5 million households, businesses and institutions through a combination of its own fuel resources (lignite), power generation and final distribution networks. Co.'s activities focus on the following areas: Conventional Power Generation, Renewable Power Generation, Nuclear Power Generation, Wholesale, Distribution and Retail. Co. has 12.2 GW of installed generation capacity.

Piraeus Bank SA

TAURON Polska Energia S.A.

Tauron Polska Energia is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity and heat in Poland. Co. generates electricity from various conventional and renewable energy sources, including hard coal, lignite, natural gas, biomass, wind, solar, and hydro power. It is also involved in quarrying, crushing, and breaking of limestone; quarrying of stone for the construction industry; mining of hard coal; trading in electricity; and production of technical gases. In addition, Co. engages in the repair and maintenance of machinery and electrical equipment; electrical installations; and construction of power lines.

TBC Bank Joint Stock Co

X5 Retail Group N.V. Sponsored GDR RegS

X5 Retail Group is a holding company. The main activity of Co. is the development and operation of grocery retail stores. Co. operates a retail chain of soft-discount, supermarket and hypermarket stores under the brand names "Pyaterochka", "Perekrestok" and "Karusel" in major population centres in Russia, including but not limited to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Samara, Lipetsk, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ekaterinburg and Kiev, Ukraine.

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