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BUCHAREST, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Romanian financial markets on Tuesday.
PPI DATA
Romania's National Statistics Board will publish November industrial producer prices data at 0800 GMT.
GOVERNMENT MEETING
Romania's coalition government of leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta holds meeting from 1000 GMT.
ROMANIA SELLS 755 MLN LEI IN AUG. 2016 BONDS
Romania sold a higher than planned 755 million lei ($228.72 million) in treasury bonds due in August 2016 on Monday, with the average accepted yield at 3.92 percent against 3.97 percent at a Dec. 19 tender.
ROMANIA SENDS FORMER PM NASTASE BACK TO JAIL FOR CORRUPTION
Romania's top court on Monday sentenced former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase to four years in jail for taking bribes, one of a handful of convictions in a poor country under pressure from the European Union to crack down on high level crime.
CEE MARKETS
The crown firmed on Monday after the Czech central bank gave its first signal since launching intervention meant to weaken the currency that it may now consider defending the unit instead.
NEW HEAD OF SUPREME COUNCIL OF MAGISTRATES
Judge Adrian Bordea was elected president of the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) on Monday. Adevarul, Page 6
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