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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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TUESDAY, March 29
BRATISLAVA - The European Central Bank Governing Council member and Governor
of Slovak central bank (NBS) to present the NBS' updated forecasts of Slovak
gross domestic growth (GDP), inflation and current account balance.
WEDNESDAY, March 30
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish preliminary January current account
balance data.
BRATISLAVA - The government meeting.
THURSDAY, March 31
BRATISLAVA - The Austrian-Slovak Chamber of Commerce to hold a seminar on
investments.
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.
