Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Dec 1

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Tuesday.
                                
 
                                
 COALITION MEETING
                                
 Three leaders of the ruling coalition will meet to debate
current political issues, 0800 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 JAN-NOV CENTRAL STATE BUDGET
                                
 Finance Ministry will publish central state budget data for
January-November period.
                                
 
                                
 GAS PRICES FOR HOUSEHOLDS
                                
 State Energy Regulator (URSO) wil hold a news conference on
its rulling on gas prices for households for the next year.
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAKIA SELLS 137.7 MLN EURO IN 17-YR BONDS
                                
 Slovakia sold 137.7 million euro worth of 17-year, 4.5
percent state bonds <SK100526206=> in an auction on Monday, the
Finance Ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency (ARDAL)
said.
                                
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 SLOVAKS PLANS 100 MLN EURO BOND AUCTION IN DEC
                                
 Slovakia plans to sell 100 million euros worth of four-year
state bonds in a December auction, the last scheduled bond sale
this year, the finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management
Agency said on Monday.
                                
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 FINMIN SEES 2009 FISCAL GAP AT 6.34 PCT/GDP
                                
 Deputy Finance Minister Frantisek Palko said he saw the 2009
fiscal deficit at 6.34 percent of gross domestic product (GDP),
up from previous 6.29 pct/GDP. Palko said economy has bottomed
out, but risks still prevail on the side of foreign demand.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
                                
 GOVT STATE-AID FOR HOSPITALS
                                
 Health care ministry will grant more than 130 million euro
to 25 hospitals, out of it 12 state-run and 13 private-owned.
Subjects are obliged to pay the state aid back within the coming
15 years.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAKS STILL QUIET ON H1N1 FLU VACCINES
                                
 State Reserves missed the end-November target, originally
set as deadline to signed a deal on H1N1 flu vaccines. Reserves,
however, added it had already picked a contractor.
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 BANKS NET PROFIT DOWN 50 PCT Y/Y
                                
 Banks profit fell by 50 percent on the year in the first ten
months of the year to 293 million euros, negatively influenced
by the euro adoption in terms of foreign exchange trading, and
also due to fees.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 16
                                
 
                                
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