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. ================================================================================ UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR--------------PERIOD----FORECAST---------PRIOR 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% 12/01 0800/0900 retail sales Nov N/A +7.6% 12/01 0800/0900 real industial wages Nov N/F +1.5% 17/01 0800/0900 EU-norm inflation Dec N/A +0.5%,+3.7% ================================================================================ WEDNESDAY, Dec 20 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly monetary policy meeting. BRATISLAVA - Regular government 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. BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November retail sales data. BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release November avg industrial wage data. by MONDAY, Jan 15 BRATISLAVA - The National Labour Office to publish unemployment statistics for December. WEDNESDAY, Jan 17 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to release EU-norm inflation data for December. TUESDAY, Jan 30 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly monetary policy meeting. TUESDAY, Feb 27 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly monetary policy meeting. TUESDAY, March 27 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly monetary policy meeting. FRIDAY, April 27 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly monetary policy meeting. TUESDAY, May 29 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly monetary policy meeting. TUESDAY, June 26 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly monetary policy meeting. =============================================================================== 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. ================================================================================ The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the 15th of each month. ================================================================================= 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. ================================================================================= ((Bratislava Newsroom, 421-2-5341-8402, fax 421-2-5341-8403, editorial@reuters.sk))