News: MQG Italy - Factors to watch on June 13

The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday.

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Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul and former Italian prime minister who transformed the nation's politics with polarising policies and often alarmed his allies with his brazen remarks, died on Monday aged 86.

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COMPANIES MFE-MEDIAFOREUROPE MFEB.MI News of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's death on Monday sent shares in his family media company soaring, fitting a pattern of market reaction to updates on his worsening health in recent months.

The Berlusconi family holding company Fininvest said in a statement that operations keep going forward in continuity with the legacy of its founder.

(*) TELECOM ITALIA (TIM) TLIT.MI Il Corriere della Sera daily reported on Tuesday that broadband provider Open Fiber may be split into two, with less profitable "grey" and "white" areas handed to Italian state lender CDP and more profitable "black" areas assigned to Macquarie (MQG) , as part of efforts to remove antitrust problems linked to the CDP-Macquarie bid for TIM's landline grid assets.

(*) BANCA MEDIOLANUM BMED.MI The CEO of the Italian bank Massimo Doris told Tuesday's Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper that he met Berlusconi and his children two weeks ago and they told him that they had no intention to change anything in the company's shareholding structure.

The Berlusconi family holding Fininvest is the second-largest shareholder in Banca Mediolanum, with a 30% stake.

(*) ITALGAS IG.MI Italy's biggest gas distributor said on Monday it would postpone from June 13 to June 15 a board of directors meeting due to approve a new 2023-2029 industrial plan, due to the national day of mourning due to be observed on June 14 for the death of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi.

(*) ENEL ENEI.MI New CEO Flavio Cattaneo announced on Monday a management shake-up, appointing Stefano De Angelis as CFO, former IREN CEO Gianni Vittorio Armani as head of its Enel Grids division and Francesco Puntillo as Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs.

(*) IREN IREE.MI The CEO of the regional utility, Gianni Vittorio Armani, resigned on Monday to take on his new position at Enel. According to Tuesday's Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper, former Telecom Italia manager Stefano Siragusa, former Terna CEO Stefano Donnarumma and former A2A CEO Valerio Camerano are among the candidates to succeed him.

(*) LEONARDO LDOF.MI Morgan Stanley initiates coverage with an equal-weight rating and an 11.2 euros target price.

MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA BMPS.MI , BPER Banca EMII.MI State-owned Monte dei Paschi di Siena does not need a rescue buyer, but like other mid-sized Italian banks needs to grow instead to serve Italy's interests, its CEO Luigi Lovaglio said on Monday.

Lovaglio made the comments at an event organised by Italy's main banking union FABI, shortly after the head of BPER Banca reiterated that his bank had no interest in buying MPS.

DIARY Rome, Data Protection Authority President Pasquale Stanzione presents annual report for 2022; Chamber of Deputies Speaker Lorenzo Fontana delivering welcome address (0900 GMT).

Rome, bank trade union FABI continues 22nd congress in occasion of 75th anniversary "Our destiny in our hands" (0900 GMT); ends on June 16. On Tuesday expected attendees include cooperative credit bank association Federcasse President Augusto Dell'Erba and Vice President Matteo Spano (0730 GMT); FABI Secretary General Lando Maria Sileoni presents Banco BPM BAMI.MI Advisor Mauro Paoloni (1000 GMT); UniCredit CRDI.MI CEO Andrea Orcel (1010 GMT); Unipol Group UNPI.MI Chairman Carlo Cimbri (1300 GMT).

Rome, 6th edition of the Italian-French Dialogues for Europe "Italy and France: together to face the great European challenges" (0800 GMT); presentation of the IPSOS Italia survey on the position of French and Italian citizens on economic, energy, political issues; expected attendees include at round-table discussions Terna TRN.MI CEO Giuseppina Di Foggia, Leonardo LDOF.MI Chairman Stefano Pontecorvo, Ambassador of France in Rome Christian Masset, Edison EDNn.MI CEO Nicola Monti, Ambassador of Italy in Paris Emanuela D'Alessandro, Aeroporti di Roma Chairman Vincenzo Nunziata, F2i CEO Renato Ravanelli; EU Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni (via videoconference), Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin (videomessage), French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire (videomessage) delivering closing address (1400 GMT).

Rome, Enel ENEI.MI Chairman and AC Milan Chairman Paolo Scaroni, Acea ACE.MI CEO Fabrizio Palermo attending a book presentation "The future of banks" (1630 GMT).

Rome, ISTAT holds news conference to present report "Cohesion policy and Southern Italy, twenty years of non-convergence' (1000 GMT).

Milan, during Legalcommunity Week at event "Breakfast on finance" Poste Italiane PST.MI Chairwoman Silvia Rovere gives speech (0600 GMT).

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