Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Jan 11

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Friday.
                                
 
                                
 DEC INFLATION
                                
 The Statistics Office will release December inflation data,
0800 GMT. Analysts forecast monthly inflation of 0.2 percent,
for an annual rate of 3.3 percent.
                                
 
                                
 DEC CORE INFLATION
                                
 The Statistics Office will release December core inflation
data, 0800 GMT. Core inflation was forecast at 0.2 percent
month-on-month, and 4.0 percent year-on-year.
                                
 
                                
 NOV FOREIGN TRADE
                                
 The Statistics Office will release November foreign trade
data, 0800 GMT. Analysts forecast a trade deficit of 2.4 billion
crowns.
                                
 
                                
 CURRENCY RESERVES
                                
 The central bank will release its weekly foreign currency
reserves data, 1300 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT RISE SLOWS ON CARS IN NOV
                                
 Slovak industrial output growth decelerated in November to
clock its slowest pace in three months, indicating that the
foreign trade balance probably swung back into a deficit,
analysts said on Thursday.
                                
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 NOV CONSTRUCTION OUTPUT -1.7 PCT Y/Y
                                
 Slovak construction output fell by a real 1.7 percent
year-on-year in November after a 0.3 percent annual rise in
October, the Statistics Office said on Thursday.
                                
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 PRESS DIGEST
                                
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 KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE
                                
 Slovakia will not recognise Kosovo's independence, expected
to be declared in the near future, and will take a wait-and-see
stance, Foreign Minister Jan Kubis said.
                                
 Sme, page 2
                                
 
                                
 EURO SUPPORT
                                
 Confidence in Slovakia's euro adoption, planned for January
2009, rose to 78 percent in December up from 75 percent in
November, an opinion poll by a think-tank INEKO showed.
                                
 Sme, page 8
                                
 
                                
 HIGHWAY LAW 
                                
 The Constitutional Court will debate an opposition motion to
stop the law which allows construction of highways on private
property without agreement with owners.
                                
 Pravda, page 17
                                
 
                                
 2007 TAXES
                                
 Tax collection in 2007 exceeded finance ministry
expectations by 10 billion crowns ($444.4 million), reaching 260
billion crown due, to better-than-expected collection of excise
taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products and corporate income
tax.
                                
 Pravda, page 17
                                
 
                                
 EU TREATY
                                
 The far-right Slovak National Party, a junior member of the
ruling coalition, demands a wider debate on the Treaty of
Lisbon, designed to reform European Union's institutions. Slovak
Parliament is expected to debate the Treaty in January.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 2
                                
 
                                
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