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In Business News: Czech national bank puts pressure on domestic banks to curb long-term mortgages; steel industry rebounds; the cheque is not in the mail, at least regarding Czech Post; energy giant ČEZ hangs on to coal-fired plant.

In this week’s Business News: low inflation seen through 2015; Hopin taxi offer rides in from Slovakia; two-thirds of Czech companies see corruption as part of environment; Kofola mulls share offer; and legal battle beckons for ‘Little Mole’ rights

In Business News this week: Czech public finance deficit to gradually drop to 0.6 percent in 2018; Škoda Auto agrees with unions on 3.5 percent salary hike; Zdeněk Bakala steps down from NWR board of directors; Cetelem discusses purchase of loss-making Zuno bank; Prague loses 40 million a year on SMS transport tickets.

In Business News: Financial assets of Czech households grew at steady six percent rate annually over five years; Czech companies get ready for Shanghai trade fair; confidence survey suggests overwhelming majority of German firms happy with investing in Czech Republic; gold mining could be renewed at a location in the Jeseníky Mountains.

In Business News this week: Czech industrial production up by 4.5 percent year-on-year in February; Czech antimonopoly office confirms provider of medical cannabis; lower house passes controversial energy law; CEZ wins arbitration against Romanian firms; and clean-up of former military area in Ralsko completed.

In Business News: Car sales in Czech Republic rise by 24 percent in Q1; Czech Statistics Office lowers GDP growth figure for Q4; Unipetrol “okayed” to acquire refinery; state-owned Railway Infrastructure Administration to renovate 200 largest railway stations; fewer Czechs vacationing abroad.

In this week’s Business News: central bank talks up low crown policy; Asian and Middle East investors seen targeting Czech hotels; drug companies get pick-up from court decision; more, and more annoying Internet ads; and anonymous elephant shit deliveries promised by Prague firm.

In Business News this week: Vodafone seeks damages over high speed Internet connections; KMV bags Hungarian bottled water company; second Chinese bank announced Czech expansion; Škoda Auto looks to remedy slack Indian sales; Gufex gets showcase at world championships.

In Business News this week: the current account of Czech Republic’s balance of payments shows the first surplus ever recorded; Czech household debt reached 1.7 billion crowns last year; Czechs spent over 13 billion crowns in foreign online stores in 2014; Honeywell expands its innovation centre in Brno; Skoda Auto launches production of new Superb:

In this week’s Business News: Tesco rings up Czech losses; massive nuclear contract for Czech engineering firm; national bank governor says no bonus from euro entry; PPP projects under consideration again at transport ministry; and tram maker angered by price and cost ‘slur’