Peugeot may raise European car market forecast for 2016 - CEO

PARIS (Reuters) - French carmaker Peugeot PSA Citroen may raise its forecast for the size of the European car market this year when it publishes half-year results, Chief Executive Carlos Taveres said on Wednesday. "The European market keeps surprising us in a pleasant way," Tavares said on the sidelines of a conference in Paris. "We will probably update our forecast in the half-year results." The group, which is due to publish interim results at the end of July, already raised its forecast last month to 4 percent growth in demand in the European car market this year. (Reporting by Gilles Guillaume; Writing by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Greg Mahlich)