Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Feb 16

    Here are news stories, press 
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial 
markets on Friday. 
     
    C.BANK TO RELEASE WEEKLY FOREX RESERVES DATA 
    The central bank publishes regular weekly foreign currency 
reserves at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT). 
     
    JANUARY JOBLESS DATA 
    The National Labour Office is expected to publish 
unemployment data for January. No release time is set. 
     
    CONSITITUTIONAL COURT 
    Slovakia's President Ivan Gasparovic and Prime Minister 
Robert Fico appoint new nine constitutional judges at 10 a.m. 
(0900 GMT). 
     
    TELEFONICA O2 REPORTS QUICK TAKE-UP IN SLOVAKIA 
    Telefonica O2 Slovakia has attracted 110,000 clients who 
activated their SIM cards within 12 days of the company's 
service launch in the central European country, it said on 
Thursday. 
    [ID:nL15805612] [RTRS-TEL-EMRG-SK] 
     
    CROWN STEADY VS EURO, MODEST GAINS SEEN 
    The Slovak crown held steady against the euro on Thursday, 
moving close to six-week highs seen in the previous session, and 
dealers said modest gains were probably on the cards in the near 
term. 
    [ID:nL15801734] [RTRS-MMT-FRX-SK] 
     
    PRESS DIGEST 
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    SLOVAKS TO ENTER SCHENGEN SYSTEM ON TIME 
    Slovakia's will meet all European Union's security 
conditions in the autumn and enter the EU's borderless Schengen 
area at the end of the year alongside other new EU members as 
planned, the Interior Minister Robert Kalinak said. 
    Pravda, page 1 
     
    CSSD-SMER POLITICAL MERGER 
    Slovakia's party Smer of Prime Minister Robert Fico is said 
to negotiate a possible merger with the Czech strongest 
opposition party CSSD of ex-Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek, local 
media cited high party officials as saying. 
    Sme, page 1 
     
    PRIVATE POWER PLANT 
    Slovakia's energy distributors consider to build a private 
power plant, local media cited energy distributor 
Vychodoslovenska energetika (VSE) as saying. 
    Sme, page 1 
     
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 Warsaw WIG20   Budapest BUX   Prague PX50  
 Other related news: 
 Slovak equities      [SK-E]  E.Europe equities           [.CEE] 
 Slovak money         [SK-M]  Czech debt                  [CZ-D] 
 Slovak Indicators  [SK-ECI]  Emerging forex          [EMRG/FRX] 
 Eastern European     [EEU]   All emerging markets        [EMRG] 
 Hot stocks           [HOT]   Stock markets                [STX] 
 Market debt news     [DBT]   Forex news                   [FRX] 
 TOP NEWS -- Emerging markets                         [TOP/EMRG] 
 TOP NEWS -- Convergence watch                        [TOP/EAST] 
 
 ((Compiled by Martin Santa; Bratislava Newsroom; Email: 
editorial@reuters.sk; +421-2-5341-8402)) 
 ($1=26.28 Slovak Crown) 
  

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