DIARY - Slovakia - to Dec 10, 2007

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                          UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS 
 DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR 
 01/06    0700/0900  GDP growth                 Q1/07     +10.5         +9.6 pct 
 08/06    0700/0900  industrial output          April       N/A        +12.5 pct 
 08/06    0700/0900  construction output        April       N/A        +16.1 pct 
 08/06    0700/0900  retail sales               April       N.A         +6.0 pct 
 08/06    0700/0900  real industial wages       April       N/F         +7.9 pct 
 11/06    0700/0900  headline inflation         May         N/A     0.2,+2.7 pct 
 11/06    0700/0900  core inflation             May         N/A     0.2,+2.6 pct 
 11/06    0700/0900  foreign trade              April       N/A        -4.59 bln 
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    FRIDAY, June 1 
    BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish central state budget data for 
January-May. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its weekly foreign currency 
reserves. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release first quarter real GDP growth 
data. 
     
    TUESDAY, June 5 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to hold its regulat two-week repo tender. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, June 6 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting. 
     
    FRIDAY, June 8 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April retail sales data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April average industrial wage 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April industrial output data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April construction output 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its weekly foreign currency 
reserves. 
     
    SATURDAY, June 9 
    BRATISLAVA - The junior ruling coalition party HZDS, led by Vladimir Meciar, 
will elect a chairman. 
     
    MONDAY, June 11 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish May headline inflation data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish May core inflation data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April foreign trade ba;ance 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to auction 12-year, 
 5.3 percent state bonds on behalf of the finance ministry. 
     
    MONDAY, June 18 
    BRATISLAVA - Meeting of Prime Ministers of Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary 
and Slovakia as part of the so-called Visegrad Four initiative. 
     
    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. 
     
    MONDAY, July 2 
    BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish central state budget data for 
January-June. 
     
    MONDAY, July 9 
    BRATISLAVA - The Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to auction 19-year, 
 4.5 percent state bonds on behalf of the finance ministry. 
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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 
    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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