Completing privatization of some strategic enterprises on the stock exchange could revive the capital market in Central and Eastern Europe, according to participants of the international conference Euromoney on investment strategies in the new Europe,
VUB bank analyst Vladimir Zlacky says that placing some shares of companies being privatized would help the Slovak stock market. „It would be appropriate if 20 to 30 percent of gas utility SPP, power producer Slovenske Elektrarne and Slovak Telecom were placed on the stock exchange,“ he suggested.
Also in Hungary, part of privatization will be via the stock exchange, stated Hungarian Finance Minister Csaba Laszlo.