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 
 27/10    0700/0900  producer prices            Sept    +0.1,+8.4      +0.6,+8.8 
 08/11    0700/0900  industrial output          Sept        N/A            +13.7 
 08/11    0700/0900  construction output        Sept        N/F            +21.6 
 09/11    0700/0900  retail sales               Sept        N/A             +8.0 
 09/11    0700/0900  real industial wages       Sept        N/F             +1.3 
 10/11    0700/0900  headline inflation         Oct         N/A        -0.3,+4.6 
 10/11    0700/0900  core inflation             Oct         N/A        -0.3,+2.4 
 10/11    0700/0900  foreign trade              Sept        N/A             -4.4 
 16/11    0700/0900  EU-norm inflation          Oct         N/A        -0.2,+4.5 
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    WEDNESDAY, Oct 25 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting. 
     
    FRIDAY, Oct 27 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release producer prices data for 
September. 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to release weekly forex reserves data. 
     
    MONDAY, Oct 30 
    BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to 
auction 6-year, zero coupon state bonds. 
     
    TUESDAY, Oct 31 
    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, Nov 1 
    National holiday, all financial markets are closed 
     
    FRIDAY, Nov 3 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to release regular weekly forex reserves data. 
     
    TUESDAY, Nov 6 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank to hold regular two-week repo tender. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Nov 8 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September industrial output 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September construction output 
data. 
     
    THURSDAY, Nov 9 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September retail sales data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September avg industrial wage 
data. 
     
    FRIDAY, Nov 10 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October headline inflation 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October core inflation data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release September foreign trade data. 
     
    THURSDAY, Nov 16 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release EU-norm inflation data for 
October. 
     
    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 5 
    BRATISLAVA - Parliament starts a regular session with the 2007 state budget 
draft as the key item on the agenda. 
     
    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 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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