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
16/09 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation August -0.1,+0.6 -0.1,+0.6 pct
16/09 0900/1100 jobless rate August +12.30 +12.07 pct
08/10 0700/0900 industrial output August N/A -21.6 pct
12/10 0700/0900 foreign trade August N/A +49.4 mln euro
12/10 0700/0900 headline inflation Sept N/A -0.1,+1.3 pct
12/10 0700/0900 core inflation Sept N/A -0.2,-0.2 pct
15/10 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation Sept N/A N/A pct
by20/10 N/A jobless rate Sept N/A N/A pct
09/11 0700/0900 industrial output Aug N/A N/A pct
11/11 0700/0900 foreign trade Aug N/A N/A mln euro
11/11 0700/0900 headline inflation Sept N/A N/A pct
11/11 0700/0900 core inflation Sept N/A N/A pct
16/11 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation Sept N/A N/A pct
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TUESDAY, Sept 15
National holiday, all banks, financial markets closed.
WEDNESDAY, Sept 16
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish August EU-norm inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The Labour Office will publish jobless rate data for August.
MONDAY, Sept 21
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 2-year, zero-coupon, state bonds.
WEDNESDAY, Sept 30
BRATISLAVA - Official deadline for the finance ministry to submit the 2010
state budget draft to the government.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish preliminary July current account
balance data.
THURSDAY, Oct 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish August industrial output data.
MONDAY, Oct 12
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September headline and core
inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish August foreign trade balance
data.
THURSDAY, Oct 15
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September EU-norm inflation
data.
*BRATISLAVA - Official deadline for the government to submit the 2010 state
budget draft to the parliament.
WEDNESDAY, Nov 4
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish retail sales data for
September.
MONDAY, Nov 9
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September industrial output
data.
WEDNESDAY, Nov 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October headline and core
inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Officw to publish September foreign trade data.
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The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the
19th of each month.
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TREASURY BONDS:
The following is a schedule of treasury bond and treasury bill auctions for
2009:
STATE BONDS:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
Sept 21 2-year zero-coupon April 1, 2011
Oct 5 8-year 4.2 pct April 4, 2017
Oct 19 to be decided
Nov 2 4-year fixed-coupon N/A
Nov 13 6-year floating-coupon Jan 21, 2015
Nov 30 2-year zero-coupon April 1, 2011
Dec 14 8-year 4.2 pct April 4, 2017
NOTE:The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency said it had
cancelled an auction of 4-year bonds planned for May 11. It said it would
auction the paper at a later date by the end of June.
- The debt agency will open two new issues in 2009, both with nominal
value of up to 1.5 billion euros. The new 6-year, floating-coupon bond will
mature on Jan. 21, 2015.
- The agency has yet to set the fixed-coupon rate for the new 4-year bond, and
it did not specify its maurity date as the date of its first auction may change.
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TREASURY BILLS: The debt agency will auction new treasury bills with an
initial maturity of 364-days and a total nominal value of up to 1.5 billion
euros on Jan. 12, 2009. The agency will also auction these new bills on Feb. 9
and March 9. The debt agency will also continue offering treasury bills maturing
on Oct. 14, 2009, with auctions set for Jan. 26 and March 23.
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