TABLE-Slovak Q3 GDP +9.4 pct y/y, confirms estimate

...increase seen in the second 
quarter, the Slovak Statistics Office said on Friday. 
    The third-quarter figure matched the flash estimate of 9.4 
percent growth released by the statistics office earlier in 
November. Second quarter growth was revised earlier this week 
from an originally reported 9.4 percent. 
 
SLOVAK REAL GDP           Q3/07     Q2/07       Q3/06      FY/06 
 (pct change yr/yr)       +9.4      +9.3        +9.0       +8.8 
  Final consumption 
  Household               +8.3      +7.8        +4.6       +5.9 
  Government              +2.2      -3.5        +2.8      +10.1 
 Gross fixed capital 
  formation               +6.5      +5.9        +7.9       +8.4 
 Foreign trade balance 
  exports of goods  
  and services            +8.5     +18.1       +24.0      +21.0 
  imports of goods  
  and  services           +3.0     +13.2       +22.8      +17.7 
    NOTE: The Statistics Office also said in a statement it had 
maintained its forecast of 8.8 percent real GDP growth for 
full-year 2007. 
    It forecast annual headline inflation at 3.4 percent at the 
end of 2007, above the previous forecast of 2.3 percent. 
     
    (Reporting by Peter Laca) 
     
  Keywords: SLOVAKIA GROWTH/  
    

[Reuters/Finance.cz]