This diary is updated every weekday and new listings or amendments are
marked *. Reuters will not always produce a news item on each event listed...
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UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR
24/04 by 1300 GMT current account Feb N/F SKK +7.7 bln
24/04 by 1300 GMT foreign debt end-Jan N/F $32.206 bln
27/04 0700/0900 producer prices March +0.3,+3.5 +1.8,+3.8 pct
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
11/05 0700/0900 headline inflation April N/A 0.0,+2.7 pct
11/05 0700/0900 core inflation April N/A 0.0,+2.5 pct
16/05 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation April N/A +0.1,+2.1 pct
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*BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico to give speech on euro adoption to
university students.
TUESDAY, April 24
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting (moved forward from originally scheduled April 27).
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its quarterly inflation forecast.
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 central bank (NBS) to hold its regular two-week repo
tender.
WEDNESDAY, April 25
BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting.
FRIDAY, April 27
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish weekly foreign currency reserves
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March producer price inflation
data.
MONDAY, April 30
*VODERADY - The launch of construction of a new Samsung LCD factory.
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.
FRIDAY, May 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April headline inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April core inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its weekly foreign currency
reserves data.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release April EU-norm inflation data.
TUESDAY, May 29
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
MONDAY, June 25
*BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico and Central Bank Governor Ivan
Sramko scheduled to attend The Economist roundtable.
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 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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