Equity markets
Budapest, Vienna exchanges may bid for WSE
The bourses in Vienna and Budapest may bid for the Polish government's stake in the Warsaw Stock Exchange, Hungarian bourse officials reported yesterday. Budapest stock exchange chairman Atilla Szalay-Bereviczy and the WSE president Wiesław Rozłucki talked about closer ties recently, although no specific decisions were made, the Hungarians said.
Polish Treasury Ministry is in the process of selecting an adviser to sell its controlling stake in the WSE.
Petrochemicals
Parliament to investigate ouster of former Orlen CEO
Polish parliament has set up a special commission to investigate February 2002 police detention of PKN Orlen chief executive Andrzej Modrzejewski, just days before he was fired as the head of the country's largest oil...