BRATISLAVA, May 17 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Monday.
BOND AUCTION
The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) will auction six-year, 3.5 percent coupon government
bonds.
SLOVAKIA'S BUSINESS REFORMS
The weekly TREND will hold a conference with economic,
political analysts on the state of Slovak economy and its reform
course.
PM'S PARTY SLIPS BUT STILL LEADS BY WIDE MARGIN
Support for Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's leftist SMER
party has dropped but it still holds a comfortable lead and
remains the favourite to form a new government after election
next month, an opinion poll showed on Friday.
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SLOVAK-HUNGARIAN RELATION TENSIONS
Prime Minister Robert Fico warned that a proposed Hungarian
law on dual-citizenship would endanger Slovakia's security,
saying each Slovak with Hungarian citizenship should immediately
loose his Slovak one in return.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 2
SAS' SULIK CONFIDENT ON FICO'S DEFEAT
Richard Sulik, leader of a liberal rightist party Freedom
and Solidarity (SaS) said was certain of a defeat of Prime
Minister Robert Fico's SMER party in June election, stressing
cooperation with SaS' right-wing partners, but added such
scenario was no granted yet.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 7
HIGH WINDS, HEAVY RAINS CAUSE FLOODS
Two days of heavy rains cause local floods in all regions of
Slovakia, meteorologists expected rains to continue until
Wednesday warning of more flooding in some regions. No
casualties were reported.
Sme, page 2
LOWER SOLAR POWER PRICES
Solar power producers criticised the State Regulator's
(URSO) plan to curb prices from solar sources by 20-30 percent,
as of June 15, triggered investors' criticism who said such
measure would hurt the business and planned projects.
Sme, page 7
STRIKE ALERTS
Thousands of workers in the steel-making, transportation,
car-parts makers threatened to enter strike alert seeking higher
wages.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 1
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