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UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR
09/05 0700/0900 industrial output March +13.3 +15.5 pct
09/05 0700/0900 construction output March N/F +25.6 pct
10/05 0700/0900 retail sales March +5.1 +4.6 pct
10/05 0700/0900 real industial wages March N/F +9.1 pct
11/05 0700/0900 headline inflation April +0.1,+2.6 0.0,+2.7 pct
11/05 0700/0900 core inflation April +0.2,+2.4 0.0,+2.5 pct
11/05 0700/0900 foreign trade March -0.6 -2.05 bln
15/05 0700/0900 GDP flash estimate Q1/07 N/A +9.6 pct
16/05 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation April +0.1,+1.9 +0.1,+2.1 pct
28/05 0700/0900 Producer prices April +0.3,+2.8 0.0,+3.1 pct
29/05 by 1500 GMT current account end-March N/F SKK +6.9 bln
29/05 by 1500 GMT foreign debt end-Feb N/F $31.280 bln
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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
BRATISLAVA - Parliament to start regular session.
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 - Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski to visit Slovakia.
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.
MONDAY, May 14
*BRATISLAVA - The Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to auction 7-year, 4.9
percent state bonds.
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.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish preliminary current account data
for end-March.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish end-February foreign debt data.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to hold its regular two-week repo tender.
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
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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