This diary is updated every weekday and new listings or amendments are
marked *.
Reuters will not always produce a news item on each event listed.
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UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR-------------PERIOD-----FORECAST---------PRIOR
02/05 0800/1000 central state budget Jan-April N/F -655.2 mln euro
* 09/05 0700/0900 industrial output March N/A +10.8 pct
* 09/05 0700/0900 foreign trade March N/A +36.8 mln
12/05 0700/0900 new industrial orders March N/F -1.2, +21.3 pct
12/05 0700/0900 headline inflation April N/A +0.4,+3.6 pct
12/05 0700/0900 core inflation April N/A +0.5,+2.2 pct
13/05 0700/0900 GDP flash estimate Q1/11 N/A +0.9,+3.5 pct
by21/05 1000/1200 jobless rate April N/A 13.13 pct
01/06 0800/1000 central state budget Jan-May N/A N/A mln euro
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MONDAY, May 2
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 14-year, 4.35 percent-coupon state bonds.
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish January-April central state
budget data.
BRATISLAVA - Leaders of the ruling coalition to meet and debate current
political issues.
MONDAY, May 9
*BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March industrial and
construction output data.
*BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March foreign trade data.
THURSDAY, May 12
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March new industrial orders.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April headline and core
inflation data.
FRIDAY, May 13
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish the gross domestic product
(GDP) growth flash estimate for the first quarter of the year.
MONDAY, May 16
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April EU-norm inflation data.
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 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 April 7, 2014
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 April 7, 2014
Oct 31 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
Nov 14 TO BE DECIDED
Nov 28 3-year zero-coupon April 7, 2014
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.
