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By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Most Central European currencies were mixed on Monday while stock markets rose as coronavirus vaccine news and developments in the Brexit negotiations lifted investor sentiment around the world. A vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University could be around 90% effective, the company said on Monday. It was the third major trial to report success after U.S.-based Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc. with Germany's BioNTech SE. Stocks in Prague were up 1.69%. Warsaw strengthened nearly 2% and Budapest was up 0.89%. Bucharest's equities gained 0.47%. "The global market mood looks positive this morning on vaccine hopes," Erste Bank wrote in a note. "The U.S. dollar is on the decline, which slightly helps local currencies." Liquidity in the CEE currency markets was low and trading was limited, two Budapest-based FX traders said. The Polish zloty slid 0.15% to 4.4685 per euro while the Hungarian forint was down 0.27% and trading at 360.50 versus the common currency. "It is in the zloty-forint pair where we see some activity, but even there you can move the rate with a relatively small amount," one trader said. "The market is stuck in the entire region, waiting for new impulses," another trader said. "Dark clouds are gathering, actually, as news might come from the European Union." The forint and the zloty both dipped at the beginning of last week after the Hungarian and Polish governments vetoed the EU's budget and coronavirus recovery package because the money is conditional on respecting the rule of law. The Czech crown held stable, edging down 0.02% and trading at 26.350 per euro. The crown's prospects were being driven by global sentiment, with the pandemic and Brexit talks in the main focus, CSOB Bank said in a morning note. "Room for further crown gains is considerably limited at the moment," they said. The Romanian leu held stable and was trading at 4.8735 per euro. CEE SNAPSHO AT MARKETS T 1104 CET CURRENC IES Latest Previous Daily Change bid close change in 2020 EURCZK= Czech <EURCZK= 26.3500 26.3460 -0.02% -3.48% crown > EURHUF= Hungary <EURHUF= 360.500 359.5200 -0.27% -8.14% forint > 0 EURPLN= Polish <EURPLN= 4.4685 4.4617 -0.15% -4.75% zloty > EURRON= Romanian <EURRON= 4.8735 4.8740 +0.01 -1.75% leu > % EURHRK= Croatian <EURHRK= 7.5590 7.5625 +0.05 -1.50% kuna > % EURRSD= Serbian <EURRSD= 117.450 117.5500 +0.09 +0.10 dinar > 0 % % Note: calculated from 1800 daily CET change Latest Previous Daily Change close change in 2020 .PX Prague 958.06 942.1500 +1.69 -14.12 % % .BUX Budapest 38543.3 38204.67 +0.89 -16.36 8 % % .WIG20 Warsaw 1857.03 1820.85 +1.99 -13.63 % % .BETI Bucharest 9111.56 9069.28 +0.47 -8.68% % .SBITOP Ljubljana <.SBITOP 867.06 852.95 +1.65 -6.35% > % .CRBEX Zagreb 1697.99 1685.47 +0.74 -15.83 % % .BELEX1 Belgrade <.BELEX1 713.58 715.26 -0.23% -10.99 5 5> % .SOFIX Sofia 424.68 426.40 -0.40% -25.25 % Yield Yield Spread Daily (bid) change vs change Bund in Czech spread Republic CZ2YT=R 2-year <CZ2YT=R 0.0660 0.0090 +082b +1bps R R> ps CZ5YT=R 5-year <CZ5YT=R 0.8000 0.0680 +156b +7bps R R> ps CZ10YT= 10-year <CZ10YT= 1.1840 -0.0140 +176b -2bps RR RR> ps Poland PL2YT=R 2-year <PL2YT=R 0.0290 -0.0100 +078b -1bps R R> ps PL5YT=R 5-year <PL5YT=R 0.4290 -0.0260 +119b -3bps R R> ps PL10YT= 10-year <PL10YT= 1.2170 0.0290 +180b +3bps RR RR> ps FORWARD 3x6 6x9 9x12 3M interb ank Czech Rep 0.37 0.40 0.49 0.35 <PRIBOR= > Hungary 0.72 0.71 0.71 0.77 Poland 0.23 0.23 0.24 0.22 Note: FRA are for ask quotes prices ********************************************** **************** (Additional reporting by Jason Hovet in Prague and Alan Charlish in Warsaw; editing by Larry King)