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 
 13/12    0800/0900  retail sales               Oct        +8.6%       +10.6% 
 13/12    0800/0900  real industial wages       Oct         N/F         +1.6% 
 15/12    0800/0900  EU-norm inflation          Nov    +0.3%,+3.4%    0.0%,+3.1% 
 27/12    0800/0900  producer prices            Nov    +0.1%,+5.4%    +0.1,+7.1% 
 11/01    0800/0900  industrial output          Nov         N/A         +11.1% 
 11/01    0800/0900  construction output        Nov         N/F          +9.1% 
 11/01    0800/0900  foreign trade              Nov         N/A         -4.98bln 
 12/01    0800/0900  headline inflation         Dec         N/A      +0.6%,+4.3% 
 12/01    0800/0900  core inflation             Dec         N/A      +0.4%,+2.9% 
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    WEDNESDAY, Dec 13 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October retail sales data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release October avg industrial wage 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting. 
     
    FRIDAY, Dec 15 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release EU-norm inflation data for 
November. 
    BRATISLAVA - The National Labour Office is expected to publish unemployment 
statistics 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. 
     
    THURSDAY, Jan 11 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November foreign trade data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November industrial output 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November construction output 
data. 
     
    FRIDAY, Jan 12 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release December headline inflation 
data. 
    BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release December core inflation data. 
     
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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 
    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. 
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