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 
 07/12    0800/0900  real GDP growth            Q3/06       N/A            +6.7 
 08/12    0800/0900  industrial output          Oct         N/A            +9.7 
 08/12    0800/0900  construction output        Oct         N/F           +11.4 
 11/12    0800/0900  headline inflation         Nov         N/A       +0.2,+3.7 
 11/12    0800/0900  core inflation             Nov         N/A       +0.1,+2.4 
 12/12    0800/0900  foreign trade              Oct         N/A           -9.46 
 13/12    0800/0900  retail sales               Oct         N/A           +10.6 
 13/12    0800/0900  real industial wages       Oct         N/F            +1.6 
 15/12    0800/0900  EU-norm inflation          Nov         N/A        0.0,+3.1 
 27/12    0800/0900  producer prices            Nov         N/A       +0.1,+7.1 
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    THURSDAY, Dec 7 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release detailed third-quarter GDP 
data and updated economic forecasts for full year. 
    ZILINA - South Korea's car producer Kia Motors <000270.KS> to open its new 
Slovak assembly plant 
    BRATISLAVA - Parliament continues debating the 2007 state budget draft. 
     
    FRIDAY, Dec 8 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October industrial output data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October construction output 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - Parliament tentatively plans to vote on the 2007 state budget 
draft. 
     
    MONDAY, Dec 11 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November headline inflation 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November core inflation data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to auction 20-year, 
4.5 percent state bond on behalf of the finance ministry. 
     
    TUESDAY, Dec 12 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October foreign trade data. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Dec 13 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October retail sales data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October avg industrial wage 
data. 
     
    FRIDAY, Dec 15 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release EU-norm inflation data for 
November. 
     
    TUESDAY, Dec 19 
    BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly 
monetary policy meeting 
     
    WEDNESDAY, Dec 27 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release producer prices data for 
November. 
    
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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 11           20-yr           4.5 pct       May 10, 2026 
    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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