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
18/08 1100/1300 jobless rate July 12.2 +11.81 pct
02/09 0700/0900 GDP growth final Q2/09 N/A -5.6 pct
02/09 0700/0900 real evarage wage Q2/09 N/A +1.6 pct
08/09 0700/0900 industrial output July N/A N/A pct
10/09 0700/0900 headline inflation August N/A N/A pct
10/09 0700/0900 core inflation August N/A N/A pct
11/09 0700/0900 foreign trade July N/A N/A mln euro
16/09 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation August N/A N/A pct
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*BRATISLAVA - The National Labour Office to publish July unemployment data.
WEDNESDAY, Aug 19
BRATISLAVA - Weekly government meeting.
MONDAY, Aug 24
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to
auction 4-year, fixed-coupon, state bonds.
WEDNESDAY, Sept 2
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish final year-on-year GDP growth
data for the second quarter.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish real average wage for the
second quarter.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish its updated economy growth and
inflation forecasts.
TUESDAY, Sept 1
National holiday, all financial markets and banks are closed.
THURSDAY, Sept 3
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish July retail sales.
TUESDAY, Sept 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish July industrial output data.
WEDNESDAY, Sept 10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish August headline and core
inflation data.
THURSDAY, Sept 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish July foreign trade balance
data.
WEDNESDAY, Sept 16
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish August EU-norm inflation data.
WEDNESDAY, Sept 30
BRATISLAVA - Official deadline for the finance ministry to submit the 2010
state budget draft to the government.
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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
Aug 24 4-year fixed-coupon April 3, 2013
Sept 7 6-year floating-coupon Jan 21, 2015
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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