CEE MARKETS-Stocks mostly retreat despite Waberer's IPO, bonds firm

* Political uncertainty fuels profit taking in CEE stock

markets

* Hungarian haulage firm Waberer's announces rare IPO

* Bonds firms slightly, Polish central bank seen holding

fire

By Sandor Peto

BUDAPEST, June 6 (Reuters) - Central European stocks fell on

Tuesday despite a rare initial public offering (IPO) announced

in Budapest, ahead of elections in Britain and France and as

some Arab states severed ties with Qatar.

Political uncertainty weighed on stock markets globally, and

equities in the eastern states of the European Union fell in

line with Western peers.

Investors also used the negative sentiment for some

profit-taking.

Budapest's main index hit record highs last week and

now dances around the key 35,000-point mark, and in Bucharest

whose index is retreating from its highest levels since

early 2008.

Budapest shed 0.6 percent by 0939 GMT even though road

transport firm Waberer's International announced that it planned

to raise 50 million euros ($56 million) in fresh capital in a

initial public offering (IPO), and listing in Budapest.

Apart from Warsaw, Central Europe's biggest bourse, IPO's

are rare in the region.

Successful IPO's were Moneta bank in Prague last

year and cable and internet provider DIGI Communications N.V

in Bucharest last month.

Raiffeisen's Polish unit and debt collector GetBack consider

IPOs in Warsaw.

Waberer's planned listing could make it the fifth biggest

stock on the Budapest Stock Exchange and fuel foreign investors'

interest in the bourse, market participants said.

Waberer's is one of the biggest road haulage companies in

the EU.

It will face difficulties due to Britain's move to quit the

EU, tightening regulations on the industry in Europe and a rise

in administrative costs, Equilor brokerage analyst Monika Kiss

told Reuters.

But it is helped by economic pick-up in Europe and in

Hungary, relatively low wages in Central Europe and a decline in

fuel prices.

Crude prices were slightly lower, though off

intra-day lows on Tuesday, with the tension around Qatar raising

questions over its agreed production quota.

The stocks of Polish oil group PKN Orlen PKN.WA> and refiner

Lotos rose 2.4 percent, and 3.1 percent, respectively,

keeping Warsaw's main index in the positive despite a

fall in other shares.

Bucharest's index fell 1.1 percent, pulled down

partly by a 7.1 percent plunge in the stocks of power grid

operator Transelectrica which traded ex-dividend, has

a newly appointed management and reported disappointing

first-quarter results recently.

Poland's 10-year government bond yield dropped 2 basis

points to 3.1655 percent ahead of a meeting of the Polish

central bank on Wednesday.

The bank is likely to keep interest rates on hold until it

raises them in the third quarter of 2018, a Reuters poll found

last week, a quarter later than the previous

sounding.

CEE MARKETS SNAPSH AT 1139 CET

OT

CURRENCIES

Latest Previo Daily Change

us

bid close change in

2017

Czech crown 26.319 26.342 +0.09 2.61%

0 0 %

Hungary 307.45 307.34 -0.03% 0.45%

forint 00 50

Polish zloty 4.1930 4.1923 -0.02% 5.03%

Romanian leu 4.5660 4.5668 +0.02 -0.68%

%

Croatian kuna 7.4140 7.3942 -0.27% 1.90%

Serbian dinar 122.30 122.16 -0.11% 0.86%

00 00

Note (Stockholm: NOTE.ST - news) : daily calculated previo close 1800

change from us at CET

STOCKS

Latest Previo Daily Change

us

close change in

2017

Prague 1006.3 1007.9 -0.15% +9.19

5 1 %

Budapest 34949. 35150. -0.57% +9.21

62 44 %

Warsaw 2283.2 2276.0 +0.32 +17.2

7 1 % 2%

Bucharest 8671.2 8769.4 -1.12% +22.3

9 1 9%

Ljubljana 793.39 792.85 +0.07 +10.5

% 6%

Zagreb 1832.9 1840.0 -0.38% -8.12%

2 0

Belgrade 720.59 717.40 +0.44 +0.45

% %

Sofia 676.79 673.80 +0.44 +15.4

% 1%

BONDS

Yield Yield Spread Daily

(bid) change vs change

Bund in

Czech spread

Republic

2-year -0.114 0.071 +060b +8bps

ps

5-year -0.127 0.072 +032b +9bps

ps

10-year 0.716 0.012 +045b +4bps

ps

Poland

2-year 1.896 -0.003 +261b +0bps

ps

5-year 2.62 -0.013 +307b +0bps

ps

10-year 3.178 -0.029 +291b +0bps

ps

FORWARD RATE AGREEMENT

3x6 6x9 9x12 3M

interb

ank

Czech Rep

IBOR=>

Hungary

BOR=>

Poland

BOR=>

Note: FRA are for ask

quotes prices

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($1 = 0.8892 euros)

(Additional reporting by Luiza Ilie in Bucharest/Jason Hovet in

Prague/Anna Koper and Bartosz Chmielewski in Warsaw, editing by

Pritha Sarkar)