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UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR-------------PERIOD-----FORECAST----------PRIOR
30/03 0800/1000 current account balance Jan N/F -308.0 mln euro
01/04 0900/1000 central state budget Jan-March N/F -344.1 mln euro
08/04 0700/0900 industrial output Feb N/A +17.1 pct
08/04 0700/0900 foreign trade blance Feb N/A +136.0 mln euro
12/04 0700/0900 new industrial orders Feb N/F -3.1,+28.4 pct
13/04 0700/0900 headline inflation March N/A +0.3,+3.3 pct
13/04 0700/0900 core inflation March N/A +0.4,+1.8 pct
15/04 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation March N/A +0.3,+3.5 pct
05/05 0700/0900 industrial output March N/A N/A pct
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SATURDAY, March 26
BRATISLAVA - Junior government party, the liberal Freedom and Solidarity
(SaS) to hold an annual congress.
MONDAY, March 28
BRATISLAVA - Slovak Association of Employers to comment on planned changes
to the labour code.
TUESDAY, March 29
BRATISLAVA - The central bank expected to publish its updated forecasts of
the gross domestic growth (GDP) growth, inflation and current account balance.
WEDNESDAY, March 30
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish preliminary January current account
balance data.
BRATISLAVA - The government meeting.
FRIDAY, April 1
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish January-March central state
budget data.
MONDAY, April 4
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, three-year, zero-coupon state bonds.
FRIDAY, April 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February industrial output
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February foreign trade balance
data.
TUESDAY, April 12
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February new industrial
orders.
WEDNESDAY, April 13
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March headline and core
inflation data.
FRIDAY, April 15
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March EU-norm inflation data.
byWEDNESDAY, April 20
BRATISLAVA - The labour office expected to publish March jobless rate data.
BRATISLAVA - Government meeting.
THURSDAY, April 21
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 9-year, 4.0 percent-coupon state bonds.
FRIDAY, April 22
Easter Friday, all banks and financial markets are closed.
MONDAY, April 25
Easter Monday, all banks and financial markets are closed.
MONDAY, May 2
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 14-year, 4.35 percent-coupon state bonds.
MONDAY, May 30
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 15-year, 4.5 percent-coupon state bonds.
MONDAY, June 13
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction two-year, floating-coupon state bonds.
MONDAY, June 27
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction five-year, 3.5 percent-coupon state bonds.
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The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the 20th
of each month.
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TREASURY BONDS: The following is a schedule of treasury bond and treasury
bill auctions for 2011:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
April 4 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
April 21 9-year 4.0 percent April 27, 2020
May 2 14-year 4.35 percent Oct 14, 2025
May 15 TO BE DECIDED
May 30 15-year 4.5 percent May 10, 2026
June 13 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
June 27 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
July 17 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
Aug 22 9-year 4.0 percent April 27, 2020
Sept 5 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
Sept 19 TO BE DECIDED
Oct 3 15-year 4.5 percent May 10, 2026
Oct 17 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
Oct 31 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
Nov 14 TO BE DECIDED
Nov 28 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
Dec 12 14-year 4.35 percent Oct 14, 2025
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NOTE:
- The debt agency will open two new issues next year.
- Three-year zero coupon state bonds -- issue size of 1.5 billion euro.
- Seven or ten-year bonds, carrying a fix-rate, issue size 3.0 billion euro.
- ARDAL has yet to set the fixed-coupon rate for the bonds as well as its
maturity date.
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TREASURY BILLS:
- The debt agency will auction two new treasury bills, both with an initial
maturity of 364-days and both of total nominal value of 2.0 billion euros.
- The first t-bill line will be placed on January 19. The second line will be
open on July 13.
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- Auction dates are binding, however, in case of any contingencies the Debt and
Liquidity Management Agency reserves the right of a change that will be
announced early in advance.
