DIARY - Slovakia - to December 12, 2006

    This diary is updated every weekday and new listings or amendments are 
marked *. Reuters will not always produce a news item on each event listed. 
 
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                          UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS 
 DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR 
 28/09    0700/0900  producer prices            Aug      +0.3,+8.5     +0.2,+9.2 
 09/10    0700/0900  industrial output          Aug         N/A             +8.3 
 09/10    0700/0900  construction output        Aug         N/F            +17.5 
 10/10    0700/0900  retail sales               Aug         N/A             +8.5 
 10/10    0700/0900  real industial wages       Aug         N/F             +3.1 
 11/09    0700/0900  headline inflation         Sept        N/A         0.0,+5.1 
 11/09    0700/0900  core inflation             Sept        N/A        -0.1,+2.8 
 12/10    0700/0900  foreign trade              Aug         N/A             -7.3 
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    WEDNESDAY, Sept 20 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting. 
     
    FRIDAY, Sept 22 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to release weekly forex reserves data. 
     
    MONDAY, Sept 25 
   *BRATISLAVA - Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek to address an investment 
conference. 
     
    TUESDAY, Sept 26 
    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. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Sept 27 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting. 
     
    FRIDAY, Sept 29 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to release weekly forex reserves data. 
     
    MONDAY, Oct 9 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release August industrial output data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release August construction output 
data. 
     
    TUESDAY, Oct 10 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release Aug retail sales data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release Aug avg industrial wage data. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Oct 11 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September headline inflation 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September core inflation data. 
     
    THURSDAY, Oct 12 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release Aug foreign trade data. 
     
    SUNDAY, Oct 15 
   *BRATISLAVA - The deadline for submitting the government's 2007 state budget 
draft to parliament. 
     
    TUESDAY, Oct 31 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Nov 1 
    National holiday, all financial markets are closed 
     
    FRIDAY, Nov 17 
    National holiday, all financial markets are closed 
     
    TUESDAY, Nov 28 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting 
     
    TUESDAY, Dec 12 
    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 2                      to be announced 
    Oct 9                      to be announced 
    Oct 16                     to be announced 
    Oct 30           6-year       zero coupon     May 4, 2012 
    Nov 5                      to be announced 
    Nov 13                     to be announced 
    Nov 27          13-year         5.3 pct       May  15, 2019 
    Dec 4                      to be announced 
    Dec 11                     to be announced 
    NOTE: The auctions without specification will be subject to the Debt and 
Liqudity Management Agency's decision whether to issue treasury bonds, treasury 
bills, or whether to hold the action at all. 
    The ministry did not specify volumes that will be offered in the auctions. 
    The ministry also said it might buy back or exchange three-year bonds 
maturing on Jan. 14, 2007, in auctions scheduled for Oct. 10, Oct. 16, Nov. 5, 
Nov. 13, Dec. 4, Dec 11. 
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