DIARY - Slovakia - to Dec 10, 2007

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                          UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS 
 DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR 
 12/04    0700/0900  headline inflation         March  +0.2,+2.8   +0.2,+2.7 pct 
 12/04    0700/0900  core inflation             March  +0.2,+2.7   +0.3,+2.5 pct 
 16/04    0700/0900  Eu-norm inflation          March  +0.1,+2.1   +0.1,+2.0 pct 
 27/04    0700/0900  producer prices            March  +0.3,+3.5   +1.8,+3.8 pct 
 27/04  by 1300 GMT  current account            Feb         N/F     SKK +7.7 bln 
 27/04  by 1300 GMT  foreign debt             end-Jan       N/F      $32.206 bln 
 09/05    0700/0900  industrial output          March       N/A        +15.5 pct 
 09/05    0700/0900  construction output        March       N/F        +25.6 pct 
 10/05    0700/0900  retail sales               March       N/A         +4.6 pct 
 10/05    0700/0900  real industial wages       March       N/F         +9.1 pct 
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    THURSDAY, April 12 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March headline inflation data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March core inflation data. 
   *BRATISLAVA - Defence ministers from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary and 
Poland to discuss the NATO transformation, EU battle groups and peacekeeping 
missions in the Balkans and Afghanistan. 
   *BRATISLAVA - A French daredevil climber Alain Robert, known as the "French 
Spiderman", expected to climb the Slovak central bank or the state radio 
building. 
     
    FRIDAY, April 13 
    BRATISLAVA - The parliament to hold an extraordinary session on an 
opposition proposal to dismiss Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its weekly foreign currency 
reserves data. 
     
    MONDAY, April 16 
    BRATISLAVA - The Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to auction 3-year, 
zero-coupon state bonds on behalf of the finance ministry. 
     
    TUESDAY, April 17 
    BRATISLAVA - Finance Minister Jan Pociatek to attend a financial management 
conference. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, April 18 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting. 
     
    THURSDAY, April 26 
    BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico and Central Bank Governor Ivan 
Sramko to attend a conference on Slovakia's economic plans. 
     
    FRIDAY, April 27 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its quarterly inflation forecast. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish weekly foreign currency reserves 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish preliminary current account data 
for February. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish end-January foreign debt data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March producer price inflation 
data. 
     
    TUESDAY, May 1 
    National holiday, all markets closed 
     
    WEDNESDAY, May 2 
    BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish central state budget data for 
January-April. 
     
    TUESDAY, May 8 
    National holiday, all markets closed 
     
    WEDNESDAY, May 9 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March industrial output data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March construction output 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting 
     
    THURSDAY, May 10 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March retail sales data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March average industrial wage 
data. 
     
    TUESDAY, May 29 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
     
    TUESDAY, June 26 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
     
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    The Slovak central bank's (NBS) monetary policy making Bank Board usually 
holds a policy meeting on the last Tuesday of every month. The board may change 
the date of its policy meetings. 
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    The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the 
15th of each month. 
     
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  TREASURY BONDS: 
  The following is a schedule of treasury bond auctions for 2006: 
 AUCTION DATE        MATURITY           COUPON           MATURITY DATE 
    April 16          3-year          zero-coupon       Feb 8, 2010 
    April 27         19-year            4.5 pct         May 10, 2026 
    May 14            7-year            4.9 pct         Feb 11, 2014 
    May 28            5-year          zero-coupon       May 4,  2012 
    June 11          12-year            5.3 pct         May 12, 2019 
    July 9           19-year            4.5 pct         May 10, 2026 
    July 23                         to be announced 
    Aug 6             5-year          zero-coupon       May 4,  2012 
    Aug 20           12-year            5.3 pct         May 12, 2019 
    Sept 17          19-year            4.5 pct         May 10, 2026 
    Oct 1             7-year            4.9 pct         Feb 11, 2014 
    Oct 15            5-year          zero-coupon       May 4,  2012 
    Oct 29           12-year            5.3 pct         May 12, 2019 
    Nov 12                          to be announced 
    Nov 26           19-year            4.5 pct         May 10, 2026 
    Dec 10            7-year            4.9 pct         Feb 11, 2014 
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