Slovakia - Factors To Watch on June 18

                                
 BRATISLAVA, June 18 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Wednesday.
                                
 
                                
 GOVERNMENT MEETING
                                
 Government will hold its regular weekly meeting, 0800 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 PARLIAMENT SESSION
                                
 Parliament will continues its regular monthly session, 0700
 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 PM FICO TO ATTEND EMPLOYERS CONGRESS
                                
 Prime Minister Robert Fico will attend an annual congress of
country's Employers' Association (AZZZ).
                                
 
                                
 C.BANK PROBES PRE-REVALUATION FX TRADES
                                
 The Slovak central bank (NBS) is investigating what it said
were unusually high trading volumes before Slovakia revalued the
crown's euro parity peg last month, Governor Ivan Sramko said on
Tuesday.
                                
 [ID:nL17112550] [RTRS-CEN-MMT-FRX-EUR-SK]
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAKIA MULLS FREEZE ON FOOD PRICES ON EURO ENTRY
                                
 Slovakia may freeze the prices of 20 basic food items to
shield consumers from unjustified price jumps after the planned
euro adoption in January, the Agriculture Ministry said on
Tuesday.
                                
 [ID:nL17704323] [RTRS-GVD-RET-FOD-SK]
                                
 
                                
 EU PARLIAMENT BACKS SLOVAKIA'S EURO ENTRY FROM 2009
                                
 The European Parliament backed on Tuesday Slovakia's bid to
join the euro zone from the start of next year, urging the
country to tighten fiscal policies to ward off inflationary
risks.
                                
 [ID:nL17327091] [RTRS-EU-EUR-ECB-SK]
                                
 
                                
 C.BANK DRAINS SKK 194.5 BLN IN REPO TENDER
                                
 The Slovak central bank (NBS) accepted all bids in its
regular two-week repo tender on Tuesday, draining 194.512
billion Slovak crowns ($9.96 billion) from the market, NBS data
showed.
                                
 [ID:nL17120148] [RTRS-MMT-CEN-INT-SK]
                                
 
                                
 PRESS DIGEST
                                
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 PRE-CONVERSION TRADES
                                
 Former Finance Minister Ivan Miklos said private equity
groups J&T and Istrokapital were aware about the planned
revaluation of the central parity on May 28 and based on that
information massively buying crowns on the market.
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 SECOND PILLAR
                                
 The leaders of the ruling coalition rejected an option to
prolong time-frame allowing Slovaks to leave the private-pension
scheme "second pillar", and close the process by end-June as
projected.
                                
 Sme, page 2
                                
 
                                
 PUBLIC SATISFACTION
                                
 Slovaks are more comfortable, putting more trust into the
government of Robert Fico, two years after the general election,
better than the previous government of Mikulas Dzurinda scored
at the half-time of its governing period, MVK agency poll
showed.
                                
 Sme, page 2
                                
 
                                
 OCTAVIA PRODUCTION
                                
 Production volume of Skoda Oktavia model at Slovakia's
Volkswagen's <VOWG.DE> plant in Bratislava should rise to 25,000
units this year, with the company saying it plan to double the
volume, at least.
                                
 Sme, page 3
                                
 
                                
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