DIARY - Czech Republic - to November 30

    New or amended items marked * 
    ALL TIMES GMT (Note: Czech Republic GMT+2) 
    See below for full macroeconomic forecasts 
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    UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS <ECONCZ> 
 DATE---GMT/LOCAL---INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST----PRIOR 
 09/10  0700/0900   Inflation m/m          Sept      -0.5%        0.2% 
 09/10  0700/0900   Inflation y/y          Sept       2.9%        3.1% 
 09/10  0700/0900   Unemployment           Sept       7.8%        7.9% 
 10/10  0700/0900   Construction output    Aug        n/f        12.2% 
 12/10  0700/0900   Industrial output      Aug       10.2%       11.8% 
 13/10  0700/0900   Producer prices m/m    Sept       0.0%        0.3% 
 13/10  0700/0900   Producer prices y/y    Sept       2.5%        2.7% 
 13/10  0700/0900   Import prices y/y      Aug        n/f         0.4% 
 13/10  0700/0900   Export prices y/y      Aug        n/f        -0.8% 
 13/10  0800/1000   CA balance CZK         Aug      -14.7bln    -23.45bln 
 13/10  0800/1000   Monetary base          Sept       n/f       328.0bln 
 18/10  0700/0900   Retail sales y/y       Aug        5.8%        6.4% 
 31/10  0900/1000   Money supply           Sept       n/f         9.3% 
 01/11  0830/0930   PMI index              Oct        n/f        55.4 
 01/11     n/a      Budget balance         Oct        n/f         1.49bln 
 03/11  0800/0900   Foreign trade          Sept       n/a        -2.07bln 
 07/11  0900/1000   FX reserves            Oct        n/f        24.21bln 
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    COMPANY RESULTS 
 DATE---COMPANY----------RIC-----------SECTOR-------MEDIAN FCAST---FORECAST---- 
                                                      (CZK bln)    ITEM 
 30/10  Zentiva         <ZNTVsp.PR>    Pharma           n/a        9M net profit 
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    NOTE. n/a = not yet available 
          n/f = not forecast 
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================================================================================     CENTRAL BANK GOVERNING BOARD MEETINGS are usually held on Thursdays, but not 
necessarily every Thursday, with monetary policy specifically discussed on the 
last Thursday of the month in the board's "situation report" (see below for 
updated schedule). 
    WEEKLY CABINET MEETINGS are usually held on Wednesdays. 
    FULL LIST of ECONOMIC INDICATORS released in the coming weeks by the Czech 
Statistical Bureau (CSU), the central bank (CNB) and the finance ministry are 
published as listed in separate tables below. The nearest coming indicators are 
also listed among other diary items below. 
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    Until TUESDAY, October 10 
    PRAGUE - Conference Forum 2000 to continue. 
 
    MONDAY, October 9 
    PRAGUE - Czech Statistical Bureau (CSU) to release September inflation data 
at 0700 GMT. 
    PRAGUE - Czech Labour and Social Affairs Ministry to release September 
unemployment data at 0700 GMT. 
    PRAGUE - Finance Ministry should release data on Q3 government debt duration 
around 1200 GMT. 
  * PRAGUE - Conference "Is Global Governance Possible?". 
     
    MONDAY, October 9 - FRIDAY, October 13 
  * BRNO - International Fair INVEX of Information and Communication 
Technologies. 
     
    TUESDAY, October 10 
    PRAGUE - Czech Statistical Bureau (CSU) to release August construction 
output at 0700 GMT. 
    PRAGUE - Car Importers' Association (SDA) to hold a news conference on car 
sales in third quarter (0800 GMT). 
 
    WEDNESDAY, October 11 
  * PRAGUE - Czech cabinet to meet in a regular weekly session. It is expected 
the cabinet to formally resign. News conference seen at 1000 GMT. 
 
    THURSDAY, October 12 
    PRAGUE - 52-week T-bill auction. 
    PRAGUE - Czech Statistical Bureau (CSU) to release August industrial output 
at 0700 GMT. 
    PRAGUE - Czech central bank governing board to meet for a regular weekly 
meeting. It is not scheduled to discuss monetary policy issues. 
 
    FRIDAY, October 13 
    PRAGUE - Czech Statistical Bureau (CSU) to release August foreign trade 
prices and September producer prices at 0700 GMT. 
    PRAGUE - Czech central bank (CNB) to release August current account balance 
and September monetary base at 0800 GMT. 
    PRAGUE - European Commissioner for the Internal Market Charlie McCreevy to 
give a speech entitled "The Future of Europe and the Internal Market" at 0900 
GMT. 
     
    TUESDAY, October 17 - FRIDAY, October 20 
    PRAGUE - Conference AutoCEE "Evaluation of Current and New Opportunities in 
the Central and Eastern European Automotive Sector". 
     
    WEDNESDAY, October 18 
    PRAGUE - 3-year government bond auction. 
    PRAGUE - The budget committee of the lower house of parliament is expected 
to discuss the 2007 budget draft. 
 
    FRIDAY, October 20 - SATURDAY, October 21 
    CZECH REPUBLIC - Czechs elect one third of upper house of parliament for the 
next six-year term. 
 
    TUESDAY, October 24 - THURSDAY, October 26 
  * PRAGUE - Telecommunications conference "tel.con spectrum". 
     
    TUESDAY, October 24 - FRIDAY, November 3 
    PRAGUE - The lower house of parliament to hold a session. 
     
    WEDNESDAY, October 25 
    PRAGUE - The lower house of parliament is expected to start debating the 
2007 budget draft in the first out of three required readings. 
     
    SATURDAY, October 28 
    CZECH REPUBLIC - National holiday. Banks and markets closed. 
     
    SUNDAY, October 29 
    The Czech Republic switches to Central European time (GMT+1). 
     
    MONDAY, October 30 
    VIENNA - Austria's Erste Bank <ERST.VI> <ERSTsp.PR> to release nine-month 
results (0630 GMT). 
    PRAGUE - Drug maker Zentiva <ZNTVsp.PR> to release nine-month results. 
     
    TUESDAY, October 31 
    PRAGUE - Ceska Sporitelna, a unit of Erste Bank <ERST.VI> <ERSTsp.PR>, to 
release nine-month results (0630 GMT). 
     
    WEDNESDAY, November 1 
    PRAGUE - Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for September due out at 0830 GMT. 
    PRAGUE - 3-year government bond auction. 
 
    THURSDAY, November 2 
    PRAGUE - 39-week T-bill auction. 
 
    FRIDAY, November 3 
  * PRAGUE - Czech central bank (CNB) to release minutes from its October 26 
governing board meeting at 0800 GMT. 
 
    WEDNESDAY, November 8 
    PRAGUE - 5-year government bond auction. 
 
    WEDNESDAY, November 15 
    PRAGUE - 13-week T-bill auction. 
===========================SHAREHOLDERS MEETINGS================================ 
 COMPANY                        RIC                    DATE 
 no meeting on the schedule 
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      The Statistical Bureau (CSU) has set the following dates for release of 
macroeconomic indicators (data released at 0700 GMT unless noted): 
    OCTOBER 
     9     Inflation (Sept) 
    10     Construction output (Aug) 
    12     Industrial output (Aug) 
    13     Producer prices (Sept) 
           Foreign trade prices (Aug) 
    18     Retail sales (Aug) 
    26     Confidence indicators (Oct) 
    NOVEMBER 
     3     Foreign trade (Sept) 
     7     Grain harvest forcast (Oct) 
           Construction output (Sept) 
     8     Inflation (Oct) 
     9     Industrial output (Sept) 
    14     Producer prices (Oct) 
           Foreign trade prices (Sept) 
    15     Retail sales (Sept) 
           Service sales (Q3) 
    28     Confidence indicators (Nov) 
    29     Real wage (Q3) 
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    The central bank (CNB) set the following dates for releases of economic 
indicators (data released at 0800 GMT unless noted): 
    OCTOBER 
    13     Balance of payments (end-Aug) 
           Monetary base (end-Sept) 
    31     Money supply (end-Sept) 
    NOVEMBER 
     7     Forex reserves (end-Oct) 
    14     Balance of payments (end-Sept) 
    15     Monetary base (end-Oct) 
    30     Money supply (end-Oct) 
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    Czech central bank governing board meetings 
                                   MEETING TYPE 
    OCTOBER 
    12                             regular 
    19                             regular 
    26                             Situation report 
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    The Labour and Social Affairs Ministry set the following dates for releasing 
monthly unemployment data (data released on the same day as CPI figures): 
    OCTOBER 
     9  to end-Sept 
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    The Finance Ministry set the following dates for the release of state budget 
balance: 
    NOVEMBER 
     1   to end-October 
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              REGULAR STATE BONDS ISSUE CALENDAR 
ISSUE NAME      AUCTION DATE    ISSUE DATE     MATURITY DATE  MATURITY   VOLUME 
                                                            (in years) (CZK bln) 
Reopening of existing issue <CZ1001143=> 
3.80%/15        Oct 4, 2006     Oct 09, 2006    April 11, 2015    10         6 
Reopening of existing issue <CZ1001309=> 
2.30%/08        Oct 18, 2006    Oct 23, 2006    Sept 26, 2008      3         5 
Reopening of existing issue <CZ1001309=> 
2.30%/08        Nov 1, 2006     Nov 6, 2006     Sept 26, 2008      3         5 
Reopening of existing issue <CZ5YT=RR> 
2.55%/10        Nov 8, 2006     Nov 13, 2006    Oct 18, 2010       5         6 
New issue 
x.xx%/09        Nov 22, 2006    Nov 27, 2006    Nov 27, 2009       3         8 
Reopening of existing issue <CZ15YT=RR> 
3.75%/20        Nov 29, 2006    Dec 4, 2006     Sept 12, 2020     15         7 
New issue 
x.xx%/09        Dec 13, 2006    Dec 18, 2006    Nov 27, 2009       3         7 
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mirka.krufova.reuters.com@reuters.net; +420 224 190 477))