In Brief: Rybnik power; Bank results; Nationale-Nederlanden over the web
The Treasury Ministry is likely to get some euro 150 million for a 35% stake
in Poland's most modern power plant, the 1,725 megawatt utility in Rybnik,
according to Rybnik's financial manager Boguslaw Biegesz. (Reuters) ... Most
Polish banks recorded significantly better results in the first quarter of
2000, than in the corresponding period last year. Bank Handlowy had a net
profit of zl. 152.4 million as compared with zl. 106.3 million in 1999, for
Kredyt Bank the respective figures were zl. 50.4 million and zl. 31.4
million. Bank Pekao S.A. recorded a net profit of zl. 149.8 million in the
first quarter of 2000, zl. 17 million more than in the corresponding period
last year. (Parkiet, page 7) ... Starting this month, clients of pension
fund Nationale-Nederlanden will be the first to be able to check the balance
of their social security accounts over the internet. (Prawo i Gospodarka,
page 10) T.J.