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
05/11 0700/0900 retail sales Sept N/A +6.9 pct
07/11 0700/0900 industrial output Sept N/A +0.9 pct
07/11 0700/0900 construction output Sept N/F +7.7 pct
10/11 0700/0900 real industrial wages Sept N/F N/A pct
11/11 0700/0900 foreign trade Sept N/A +0.622 bln SKK
12/11 0700/0900 headline inflation Oct N/A +0.7,+5.4 pct
12/11 0700/0900 core inflation Oct N/A +0.4,+5.5 pct
14/11 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation Oct N/A N/A pct
28/11 0700/0900 producer prices Oct N/A N/A pct
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FRIDAY, Oct 31
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish weekly foreign currency reserves
data.
MONDAY, Nov 3
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish central state budget data for
January-October.
BRATISLAVA - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Czech Prime Minister
Mirek Topolanek to attend a conference on nuclear energy.
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to
auction 10-year, floating-coupon state bonds.
TUESDAY, Nov 4
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to hold a regular two-week repo tender to
drain market liquidity.
WEDNESDAY, Nov 5
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September retail sales data.
BRATISLAVA - Regular weekly government meeting.
FRIDAY, Nov 7
BRATISLAVA - The Statistcis Office to publish September industrial output
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September construction output
data.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish the weekly foreign curency reserves
data
MONDAY, Nov 10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September real industrial wage
data.
TUESDAY, Nov 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September foreign trade data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October headline inflation
data
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October core inflation data.
WEDNESDAY, Nov 12
BRATISLAVA - Regular weekly government meeting.
FRIDAY, Nov 14
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October EU-norm inflation
data.
BRATISLAVA - The centarl bank to publish weekly foreign currency reserves
data.
MONDAY, Nov 17
National holiday, all financial markets closed.
TUESDAY, Nov 25
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish January-Sept current account data.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish gross foreign debt data as of
end-Aug.
FRIDAY, Nov 28
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October producer price data.
TUESDAY, Dec 19
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish January-Oct current account data.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish gross foreign debt data as of
end-Sept.
WEDNESDAY, Dec 24
Christmas holiday, all financial markets closed.
THURSDAY, Dec 25
Christmas holiday, all financial markets closed.
FRIDAY, Dec 26
Christmas holiday, all financial markets closed.
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The Slovak central bank's (NBS) monetary policy making Bank Board usually
holds a policy meeting on the last Tuesday of every month. The board may change
the date of its policy meetings.
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The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the
15th of each month.
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TREASURY BONDS:
The following is a schedule of treasury bond auctions for 2008:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
Nov 3 10-year floating-coupon Sept 8, 2018
Nov 14 18-year 4.5 pct May 10, 2026
Dec 1 3-year zero-coupon March 31, 2011
Dec 15 9-year 4.2 pct April 4, 2017
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