FRANKFURT, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The DAX top-30 index looked set to open 0.1 percent lower on Monday, according to premarket data from brokerage Lang & Schwarz at 0720 GMT.
The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks:
DAIMLER
Indicated 0.3 pct higher
Daimler plans to launch a version of its GLC SUV with a hydrogen fuel cell engine in 2017, which would make it the first German carmaker to bring the technology to market, Automobilwoche cited company sources as saying.
DEUTSCHE BANK
Indicated 0.2 pct higher
The lender has been devising complex international tax avoidance strategies for some of its largest clients, including AB InBev and Archer Daniels Midland, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter.
DEUTSCHE BOERSE
Indicated unchanged
The stock exchange operator will launch on Monday an amended form of share placements on its public market, encouraging investors to trade large blocks of shares hidden from public view without breaching new rules on controversial "dark pools", the Financial Times reported.
LUFTHANSA
Indicated 2.1 pct higher
The airline on Saturday signed an agreement with services union Verdi on pay for about 33,000 ground personnel.
MUNICH RE
Indicated 0.1 pct higher
Briefing due on the reinsurer's preparations for the EU's new Solvency II risk capital rules, which take effect on Jan. 1.
SAP
Indicated 0.1 pct lower
The software maker expects revenues from its cloud business to surpass traditional software licensing revenues in 2018, CFO Luka Mucic told German daily Boersen-Zeitung.
THYSSENKRUPP
Indicated 0.2 pct lower
The company has submitted an offer to the Australian government for a submarine contract that could be worth tens of billions of euros, it said on Monday.
UTILITIES
RWE indicated 0.6 pct higher
E.ON indicated 0.7 pct higher
Germany could share responsibility for phasing out nuclear power with energy firms by setting up a publicly managed trust, environment minister Barbara Hendricks told Deutschlandfunk radio.
VOLKSWAGEN
Indicated 0.1 pct lower
The carmaker will have to recall 2.46 million cars fitted with the illegal emission control software in Germany alone, newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday.
Separately, VW top executives knew a year ago that some of the company's cars were markedly less fuel efficient than had been officially stated, Sunday paper Bild am Sonntag reported.
VONOVIA, DEUTSCHE WOHNEN PATRIZIA IMMOBILIEN
No indication available for Vonovia
Deutsche Wohnen indicated 1.1 pct higher
Patrizia Immobilien indicated 3.9 pct higher
Deutsche Wohnen has agreed to buy a property portfolio worth about 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) from Patrizia Immobilien, potentially upsetting a takeover bid for the German property firm by peer Vonovia.
Separately, extraordinary general meeting of Vonovia shareholders due to start at 0900 GMT. They are to vote on Vonovia's hostile 14 billion euro bid for Deutsche Wohnen.
CAPITAL STAGE
Indicated 2.1 pct higher
Full Q3 results due. The company published preliminary results on Nov. 19 and raised its sales and earnings forecasts for 2015.
OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS
Dow Jones -0.1 pct, S&P 500 +0.1 pct, Nasdaq +0.2 pct at Friday's close.
Nikkei -0.7 pct, Shanghai stocks +0.3 pct at Monday's close.
GERMAN ECONOMIC DATA
German October retail sales -0.4 pct m/m, +2.1 pct y/y.
German preliminary inflation data for November due at 1300 GMT. CPI seen +0.1 pct m/m, +0.4 pct y/y. HICP seen +0.1 pct m/m, +0.3 pct y/y.
EUROPEAN FACTORS TO WATCH
DIARIES
REUTERS TOP NEWS ($1 = 0.9424 euros) (Reporting by Maria Sheahan, Christoph Steitz and Ludwig Burger)