DIARY - Slovakia - to Feb 19, 2008

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                          UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS 
 DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR 
 28/11    0800/0900  producer prices            Oct     +0.2,+1.7  +0.5,+1.6 pct 
 30/11    0800/0900  GDP                        Q3/2007     N/A         +9.4 pct 
 07/12    0800/0900  industrial output          Oct         N/A        +15.4 pct 
 07/12    0800/0900  construction output        Oct         N/F         +5.3 pct 
 11/12    0800/0900  headline inflation         Nov         N/A    +0.6,+3.3 pct 
 11/12    0800/0900  core inflation             Nov         N/A    +0.7,+3.6 pct 
 12/12    0800/0900  foreign trade balance      Oct         N/A    +4.74 bln SKK 
 13/12    0800/0900  retail sales               Oct         N/A         +1.9 pct 
 13/12    0800/0900  real industrial wage       Oct         N/F         +1.4 pct 
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    FRIDAY, Nov 23 
   *BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico will request President Ivan 
Gasparovic to sack Agriculture Minister Miroslav Jurena. 
   *BRATISLAVA - Opposition leaders to meet over government crisis. 
   *TRNAVA - PSA Peugeot Citroen  CEO Christian Streiff visits the 
firm's Slovak unit. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its weekly foreign currency 
reserves. 
     
    SATURDAY, Nov 24 
   *RUZOMBEROK - The HZDS party holds an extraordinary national congress to 
decide on whether the party should stay in the ruling coalition. 
     
    MONDAY-TUESDAY, Nov 26-Nov 27 
    BRATISLAVA - The European Nuclear Energy Forum. EU Energy Commissioner 
Andris Piebalgs, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Czech Prime Minister Mirek 
Topolanek to attend. 
     
    MONDAY, Nov 26  
    BRATISLAVA - Parliament to hold a no-confidence vote against its chairman, 
Pavol Paska. 
     
    TUESDAY, Nov 27 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank holds its regular weekly repo tender. 
     
    FRIDAY, Nov 30 
    BRATISLAVA - The Slovak Statistics Office to publish detailed GDP data for 
the third quarter. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its weekly foreign currency 
reserves 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Dec 12 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October foreign trade data. 
     
    THURSDAY, Dec 13 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October retail sales data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October industrial real 
average wage data 
     
    TUESDAY, Dec 18 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
     
    TUESDAY, Feb 19 
    BRATISLAVA - The state investment agency SARIO holds a conference on FDI 
inflows in Slovakia. 
     
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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 
    Nov 26           19-year            4.5 pct         May 10, 2026 
    Dec 10            7-year            4.9 pct         Feb 11, 2014 
    Note: The state debt agency has cancelled an auction originally listed for 
Nov. 12 
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