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PRAGUE, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The Czech government approved its 2026 central budget plan on Tuesday, in time to send it to parliament, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said, as it targets a raised deficit of 286 billion crowns ($13.82 billion). Fiala's government has cut the overall fiscal gap below the European Union limit of 3% of gross domestic product, expecting a 1.9% deficit in 2025. But it faces a parliamentary election this weekend, and the next government is likely to tweak the 2026 plan. ($1 = 20.6990 Czech crowns) (Reporting by Jason Hovet)

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Sept 30 (Reuters) – Hynion AS: * NEW INTERIM CEO * APPOINTS SEBASTIAN RUNDQVIST AS INTERIM CEO Source text: Further company coverage: (Gdansk Newsroom)

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WARSAW, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Polish inflation in September came in slightly below expectations and remained at the same level as in August, strengthening market expectations for further interest rate cuts. However, the central bank may wait until November, when new forecasts are due, before making its next move. The statistics office said on Tuesday that flash inflation this month was 2.9% year-on-year, below analysts' average forecast of 3.0%. Month-on-month prices remained unchanged against the expected increase of 0.2%. In August, inflation was 2.9% year-on-year. The National Bank of Poland's inflation target is 1.5-3.5%. According to analysts, the biggest surprise was food prices, which unexpectedly fell by 0.5% month-on-month, which offset the increase in fuel prices. "We are facing further declines (inflation) in the coming months. Core inflation fell to approximately 3.1% from 3.2% in August," ING analysts wrote in a commentary on the data. "The Monetary Policy Council (MPC) will wait until November with the next interest rate cut, but the arguments for easing monetary policy are growing." New central bank inflation forecasts, which are one of the main factors influencing the decisions of Polish central bankers, will be published in November. The next MPC meeting will be held in early October. The National Bank of Poland (NBP) cut its main interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.75% in September, as most analysts had expected, citing a decline in inflation. Poland's central bank must be cautious when deciding on further interest rate cuts and consider inflationary risk factors such as loose fiscal policy, rapid economic growth and wage pressures, NBP governor Adam Glapinski said in September. (Reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz, Editing by William Maclean)

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(Corrects link in paragraph 7) * Oct 3 release of US employment data set for delay in a shutdown * Other data, including CPI, could be at risk depending on length of any shutdown * Fed widely expected to cut rates at end-October meeting By Laura Matthews, Lewis Krauskopf and Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Wall Street is preparing for disruption to economic data if a looming U.S. government shutdown goes ahead, which could cause investors to rely more on alternative data or take on more defensive positions as they anticipate volatility in asset prices. The U.S. Labor Department said on Monday that economic data releases would pause in a government shutdown, amplifying investor concerns that Friday's monthly employment report would not be published as scheduled. Such a delay to the closely watched report could cause confusion for investors, including how to assess the Federal Reserve's upcoming interest rate decisions. "A shutdown is an expected event…like the slow car crash that we're all watching happen," said Callie Cox, chief market strategist at Ritholtz Wealth Management. "There are ways to hedge this and I'm sure affected investors are already thinking about that." The Fed relies on a range of data including regular government releases to make monetary policy decisions as it seeks to balance its key economic goals of price stability and maximum employment. Markets are pricing in a quarter-point rate cut by the Federal Reserve at its Oct 28-29 meeting. The central bank made such a cut earlier in September following weak employment reports. WILL THE SHUTDOWN CASCADE THROUGH MARKETS? U.S. Vice President JD Vance said late Monday he thought the government was headed for a shutdown. "If a shutdown happens and it lasts any significant amount of time… you could see a cascade effect where data really just gets pushed back and pushed back," said Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities. "For markets, that's a difficult thing given just the sheer amount of data dependence that the Fed is leaning on." With U.S. government funding due to expire at midnight on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are showing no signs they will agree to a temporary spending fix that would avert a shutdown. Andrew Brenner, head of international fixed income at NatAlliance, said a delay in the jobs report could cause traders with Treasury derivatives positions put on ahead of the labor data to close or hedge their exposure, spurring more volatility in the market. Strategists are recommending clients prepare for both protection and opportunities as they navigate this period of uncertainty. Phil Blancato, chief market strategist at Osaic, said clients should think about increasing their fixed income allocation, buying the belly of the U.S. Treasury yield curve, hedging portfolios to mitigate volatility, and pivoting towards companies that could benefit when the impasse is resolved. "Keep a level of cash in the portfolio, five to ten percent short-term investments, that can be dry powder when" the shutdown is resolved, Blancato said. LACK OF DATA COULD CLOUD FED'S VIEW The labor market data due on Friday stand to be among the first impacted, while depending on length of a shutdown, other releases could be delayed, including the Consumer Price Index due Oct 15. During a 16-day shutdown in 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published the report originally scheduled for Oct 3, on Oct 22, the fourth business day after the government’s reopening, according to economists at Nomura in a note. Once any shutdown ends, the BLS could likely publish data relatively quickly as it will likely have nearly completed the employment report by the end of September, the Nomura economists wrote last week. DATA DELAY WILL RIPPLE THROUGH WALL STREET Department of Labor spokesperson Courtney Parella said in a statement to Reuters that concerns about potential delays should be directed to Democrats in Congress, who she said are refusing to pass a "clean" continuing resolution to keep the government open. A spokesperson for Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did not respond to a request for comment. Without data, investors will focus more on Fed officials' comments, said Adam Vos, global head of BNY Markets. "There’s a diverse set of views across the Fed, and so that could be, I guess, tricky to get a handle on exactly where that will land," Vos said. Fed Funds futures are pricing in nearly 90% odds of a quarter-point cut at the upcoming meeting, LSEG data showed. "Fewer pieces of data can cloud the Fed's view in that meeting," Cox said. "Generally, less transparency in data affects everyone in markets from the bigwigs on Wall Street to the policymakers to the average investor." Others argue it would be tougher for the Fed to justify veering from its "dot plot" of rate projections, making such a cut in October more likely. "If no data comes out, they won't really have any information to deviate in either direction from that baseline," said David Seif, chief economist for developed markets at Nomura. (Reporting by Laura Matthews, Davide Barbuscia and Lewis Krauskopf; additional reporting by Karen Brettell, Sinéad Carew, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed; editing by Megan Davies, Anna Driver and Timothy Heritage)

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(Corrects to add missing word to headline) By Jayshree P Upadhyay MUMBAI, Sept 30 (Reuters) – India's National Stock Exchange will offer a daily expiry on GIFT Nifty contracts to foreign investors via a tax-neutral jurisdiction as it seeks to attract more global funds, diverging from domestic markets' tighter equity derivatives rules. GIFT Nifty is a dollar-denominated derivative contract of the Nifty 50 traded on NSE subsidiary, the NSE International Exchange (NSE IX) in Gujarat International Finance Tech (GIFT) City. In August, the contract crossed $100 billion in terms of monthly turnover. Zero-day-to-expiry contracts will be introduced with effect from October 13, the NSE said in a notice late on Monday. There will be five weekly expiries from Monday to Friday, expiring on a daily basis, NSE said. Resident Indians are not allowed to trade in these contracts. India has been pitching the tax-neutral financial centre in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat as an alternative to centres such as Dubai and Singapore by offering lenient regulations and taxation policies to attract foreign investors. "We are hoping to attract more foreign investors by offering a product that is available on other global exchanges such as the Chicago Board Options Exchange," said V. Balasubramaniam, chief executive of NSE IX. CONTRASTING CONCERNS The introduction of daily expiries on GIFT Nifty is in contrast to steps being taken to cool the booming equity derivatives trade in the mainland markets, where domestic retail investors have rushed in. Nearly 90% of retail investors are incurring losses in derivative trading, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has said. In October last year, SEBI limited expiries to one per week for each exchange. It is now planning to increase the tenure of equity derivatives contracts. With mainland markets, the regulator's concern is to limit retail investor losses, said a person with direct knowledge of the GIFT authorities' decision. A similar concern does not exist in GIFT City as the product is meant only for sophisticated foreign institutions and proprietary traders, they added. Exchanges in GIFT City are regulated by International Financial Services Centres Authority. (Reporting by Jayshree P. Upadhyay; Editing by Eileen Soreng and Janane Venkatraman)

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Sept 30 (Reuters) – Orlen SA: * COMPLETED A CONTRACT TO SUPPLY 100 MILLION CUBIC METERS OF NATURAL GAS TO JAPAN Source text: Further company coverage: (Reporting by Gdansk Newsroom)

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* Jobless number rises by 14,000 vs 8,000 forecast * Labour head: No stimulus for stronger recovery * Government spending needs time to take effect, says analyst (Adds details, background in paragraphs 4-5, adds analyst in paragraphs 10-12) By Miranda Murray and Holger Hansen BERLIN, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The number of people out of work in Germany rose more than expected in September, labour office figures showed on Tuesday, as the job market struggles to recover in a continually weak economy. In seasonally adjusted terms, the jobless figure rose by 14,000 to 2.98 million, surpassing the 8,000 increase forecast by analysts polled by Reuters. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate remained stable at 6.3%, in line with the analysts' forecast. The non-adjusted number of unemployed people in Germany last month passed the 3 million mark for the first time in a decade but fell by about 70,000 to 2.95 million again in September. Companies' demand for new workers also weakened, with 630,000 job openings reported in September, 66,000 fewer than a year ago, according to the labour office. "The labour market continues to lack the necessary stimulus for a stronger recovery," said labour office head Andrea Nahles. Germany, Europe's largest economy, faces a third consecutive year of economic contraction for the first time in its history, made more probable by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. The economy contracted 0.3% in the second quarter compared with the first three months of the year, pointing to continued weakness in the labour market, which tends to lag other indicators. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised to haul Germany out of the downturn with a sharp increase in infrastructure and defence spending, but those measures are taking longer than expected to translate into better conditions on the ground. "If the infrastructure programmes and increased defence spending take effect next year, the manufacturing sector will primarily benefit, and the rapid job losses will at least be slowed," said Union Investment economist Michael Herzum. However, it will take some time to show up, he added. Leading German economic institutes last week nudged up their economic growth forecast for this year to 0.2%, from 0.1% previously, and left their 2026 forecast unchanged at 1.3%. (Reporting by Holger Hansen and Miranda Murray, Editing by Friederike Heine, William Maclean)

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MUMBAI, Sept 30 (Reuters) – India's JTPM Metal Traders, a holding company within the JSW Group, has accepted bids worth 70 billion rupees ($788.7 million) for zero-coupon bonds to finance an acquisition, three merchant bankers said on Tuesday. The bonds will mature in four years and seven months, and will carry a yield of 8.50%. The issue will have a put and call option at the end of three years. JSW Group did not respond to an email request for comment from Reuters. Here is the list of deals reported so far on September 30: Issuer Tenure Coupon (in %) Issue size (in Bidding Rating bln rupees)* date JTPM Metal 4 year and 7 8.50 (yield) 70 September AA (Crisil, Traders months 29 Care) *Size includes base plus greenshoe for some issues ($1 = 88.7570 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Dharamraj Dhutia; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)

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Sept 30 (Reuters) – ZCCM Investments Holdings PLC : * ZCCM INVS.HLDGS PLC – ACQUISITION OF 35% SHAREHOLDING MSEL * ZCCM INVESTMENTS HOLDINGS PLC – REMAINING 65% OF MAAMBA SOLAR ENERGY LIMITED WILL BE HELD BY NAVA GLOBAL * ZCCM INVESTMENTS- WILL INVEST 100MWAC IN SOLAR PV POWER PROJECT; MSEL HAS BEGUN DEVELOPMENT OF PROJECT WHICH SET TO BE COMMISSIONED IN JULY 2026 Source text: Further company coverage:

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Sept 30 (Reuters) – DigiTouch SpA: * H1 NET PROFIT EUR 0.8 MILLION * H1 TOTAL REVENUE EUR 19.8 MILLION Further company coverage: (Gdansk Newsroom)

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