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
09/11 0700/0900 industrial output Sept N/A -5.7 pct
11/11 0700/0900 foreign trade Sept N/A +267.7 mln euro
11/11 0700/0900 headline inflation Oct N/A 0.0,+0.6 pct
11/11 0700/0900 core inflation Oct N/A -0.1,-0.6 pct
13/11 0700/0900 GDP growth flash estimate Q3/09 N/A -5.3 pct
16/11 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation Oct N/A N/A pct
03/12 0700/0900 final GDP growth Q3/09 N/A -5.3 pct
08/12 0700/0900 industrial output Oct N/A -5.7 pct
11/12 0700/0900 foreign trade Oct N/A N/A mln euro
11/12 0700/0900 headline inflation Sept N/A N/A pct
11/12 0700/0900 core inflation Sept N/A N/A pct
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WEDNESDAY, Oct 21
*BRATISLAVA - Three leaders of the ruling coalition to meet and debate
current political issues.
BRATISLAVA - Weekly government meeting.
*BRATISLAVA - Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak and Defence Minister Jaroslav
Baska to address an accompanying security conference of the NATO defence
minister meeting in Bratislava.
*BRATISLAVA - Parliament will start its October session, the house is
expected to start debate on the finance ministry's 2010 state budget draft.
THURSDAY, Oct 22
*BRATISLAVA - Start of a two-day meeting of NATO defence ministers with NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
*BRATISLAVA - NATO Secretary General - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, U.S. Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs - Alexander Vershbow, U.
S. Permanent Representative to NATO - Ivo Daadler to address an accompanying
security conference of the NATO defence minister meeting in Bratislava.
*BRATISLAVA - Central Bank Governor, and the European Central Bank governing
council member, Ivan Sramko will give a speech on Slovakia economy during the
global downturn.
*BRATISLAVA - Parliament to continue its October session. Prime Minister
Robert Fico and ministers to answer deputies' queries during the regular
"question hour".
FRIDAY, Oct 23
*BRATISLAVA - two-day meeting of NATO defence ministers with NATO Secretary
General Anders Fogh Rasmussen continues. Rasmussen to hold a news conference.
MONDAY, Nov 2
BRATISLAVA - Finance Ministry to publish central state budget data for
January-October period.
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.
FRIDAY, Nov 12
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Officw to publish GDP growth flash estimate for
the third quarter.
MONDAY, Nov 16
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Officw to publish October EU-norm inflation
data.
TUESDAY, Dec 1
BRATISLAVA - Finance Ministry to publish central state budget data for
January-November period.
THURSDAY, Dec 3
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Officw to publish final GDP growth data for the
third quarter.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Officw to publish its updated economy growth and
inflation forecasts.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Officw to publish real average wage data for the
third quarter.
TUESDAY, Dec 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Officw to publish October industrial output
data.
FRIDAY, Dec 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish November headline and core
inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October foreign trade balance
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
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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