DIARY - Slovakia - to Dec 18, 2007

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                          UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS 
 DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR 
 08/10    0700/0900  industrial output          Aug       +10.5        +18.9 pct 
 08/10    0700/0900  construction output        Aug         N/F         +4.8 pct 
 10/10    0700/0900  retail sales               Aug        +6.5         +5.9 pct 
 10/10    0700/0900  real industrial wage       Aug         N/F         +3.5 pct 
 11/10    0700/0900  headline inflation         Sept    +0.1,+2.7   0.1,+2.3 pct 
 11/10    0700/0900  core inflation             Sept    +0.1,+2.8   0.0,+2.4 pct 
 12/10    0700/0900  foreign trade              Aug        -3.0        -4.51 bln 
 16/10    0700/0900  EU-norm inflation          Sept    +0.1,+1.6  -0.1,+1.2 pct 
 26/10    0700/0900  producer prices            Sept     0.0,+1.2  -0.2,+0.5 pct 
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    TUESDAY, Oct 9 
   *BRATISLAVA - Ruling coalition leaders are expected to meet to debate 2008 
state budget draft. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to hold regular two-week repo tender. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Oct 10 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release August retail sales data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release August industrial real average 
wage data 
     
    THURSDAY, Oct 11 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September headline inflation 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September core inflation data. 
    BRATISLAVA - Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko to start a two-day visit to 
Slovakia. 
   *BRATISLAVA - Regular weekly government meeting (moved from Wednesday). 
     
    FRIDAY, Oct 12 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release August foreign trade data. 
     
    MONDAY, Oct 15 
    BRATISLAVA - The deadline for submitting the government's draft of 2008 
state budget to parliament. 
     
    TUESDAY, Oct 16 
    The Statistics Office to release September EU-norm inflation data. 
     
    TUESDAY, Oct 30 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish the quarterly update of its 
economic outlook. 
     
    TUESDAY, Nov 27 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
     
    TUESDAY, Dec 18 
    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 
    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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