DIARY - Slovakia - to June 24, 2008

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                          UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS 
 DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR 
 11/12    0800/0900  headline inflation         Nov     +0.3,+3.0  +0.6,+3.3 pct 
 11/12    0800/0900  core inflation             Nov     +0.4,+3.6  +0.7,+3.6 pct 
 12/12    0800/0900  foreign trade balance      Oct        -0.9    +4.74 bln SKK 
 13/12    0800/0900  retail sales               Oct        +4.0         +1.9 pct 
 13/12    0800/0900  real industrial wage       Oct         N/F         +1.4 pct 
 14/12    0800/0900  EU-norm inflation          Nov     +0.3,+2.2  +0.7,+2.4 pct 
 18/12    by 1500    prelim current account   Jan-Oct       N/F    -51.3 bln SKK 
 18/12    by 1500    gross foreign debt      end-Sept       N/F    +38.2 bln $ 
 27/12    0800/0900  producer prices            Nov     +0.3,+1.7  +0.3,+1,8 pct 
 10/01    0800/0900  industrial output          Nov         N/A        +17.3 pct 
 10/01    0800/0900  construction output        Nov         N/F         +0.3 pct 
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    MONDAY, Dec 10 
    BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency 
(ARDAL) to auction 7-year, 4.9 percent state bonds. 
     
    TUESDAY, Dec 11 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to hold regular two-week repo tender 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November headline inflation 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November core inflation data. 
   *BRATISLAVA - Central Bank Governor Ivan Sramko to address an economic 
conference on euro adoption. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Dec 12 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting. 
    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 
     
    FRIDAY, Dec 14 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to release weekly foreign currency reserves 
data. 
     
    TUESDAY, Dec 18 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to hold regular two-week repo tender. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish preliminary January-October current 
account data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish end-September fereign debt data. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Dec 19 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting. 
     
    FRIDAY, Dec 21 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to release weekly foreign currency reserves 
data. 
     
    MONDAY, Dec 24 
    BRATISLAVA - Christmas holiday, all financial markets are closed. 
     
    TUESDAY, Dec 25 
    BRATISLAVA - Christmas holiday, all financial markets are closed. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Dec 26 
    BRATISLAVA - Christmas holiday, all financial markets are closed. 
     
    THURSDAY, Dec 27 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November producer prices data. 
     
    TUESDAY, Jan 29 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish updated quarterly medium-term 
forecast. 
     
    TUESDAY, Feb 19 
    BRATISLAVA - The state investment agency SARIO holds a conference on FDI 
inflows in Slovakia. 
     
    TUESDAY, Feb 26 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
     
    TUESDAY, March 25 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
     
    TUESDAY, April 29 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish updated quarterly medium-term 
forecast. 
     
    TUESDAY, May 20 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish report on Slovakia's 2007 monetary 
development. 
     
    TUESDAY, May 27 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting. 
     
    TUESDAY, June 24 
    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 
    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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