Slovakia - Factors To Watch on July 10

                                
 BRATISLAVA, July 10 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Thursday.
                                
 
                                
 JUNE HEADLINE INFLATION
                                
 The Statistics Office will publish June headline inflation
data, 0700 GMT. Analysts forecast consumer prices to have risen
by 0.3 percent on the month and by 4.6 percent year-on-year.
                                
 
                                
 JUNE CORE INFLATION
                                
 The Statistics Office will publish June core inflation data,
0700 GMT. Core inflation was forecast at 0.3 percent
month-on-month and at 4.7 percent on an annual basis.
                                
 
                                
 EURO NEWS CONFERENCE
                                
 Prime Minister Robert Fico and Central Bank Governor Ivan
Sramko will hold a news conference on euro adoption, 0705 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAKIA FX FIXING WILL NOT AFFECT RATING-S&P
                                
 Slovakia's debt rating will not be affected by the fixing of
the crown's conversion rate to the euro, but prudent fiscal
policy will be key to any ratings upgrade, a Standard & Poor's
analyst said on Wednesday.
                                
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 SLOVAKS TAKE STEPS AGAINST PRICE HIKES AFTER EURO
                                
 The Slovak government approved on Wednesday a plan to
prevent speculative price hikes when Slovakia adopts the euro
next year, including state regulation of costs of goods and
services.
                                
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 MAY REAL AVERAGE IND WAGE +2.9 PCT Y/Y
                                
 The real average industrial wage in Slovakia rose by 2.9
percent year-on-year in May, compared with a 4.8 percent
increase in April, the Slovak Statistics Office said on
Wednesday.
                                
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 PRESS DIGEST
                                
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 SMER KEEPS LEAD IN POLL
                                
 The Smer party of Prime Minister Robert Fico has retained
its lead in opinion polls, taking 42.4 percent in a May/June
survey conducted by the private agency Median. The SDKU party of
former Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda finished second, ahead of
Fico's coalition partner SNS.
                                
 Sme, page 2
                                
 
                                
 SECOND PILLAR
                                
 The final data showed that 103,356 Slovaks had left the
private pension scheme during the six months period that the
government opened the system. The government had tried to lure
people away from the private system to secure more money into
the state-run pay-as-you-go scheme.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
                                
 ARMY PLANE TENDER
                                
 The government approved a defence ministry plans to call an
international tender to buy new transportation planes for the
army. The plans does not specify the cost and the number of
planes, and ministry officials declined to comment further.
                                
 Pravda, page 1
                                
 
                                
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