BRATISLAVA, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Wednesday.
GOVERNMENT MEETING
Government will hold its regular weekly meeting. Finance
Ministry is expected to present its report on economy's
development in the first half of the year, including forecast
for 2009
DALAI LAMA VISIT
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama will receive an
honourable award for human rights, meet with public.
CARS DRAG SLOVAK OUTPUT SURPRISINGLY LOW IN JULY
Slovakia's industrial output fell for the 10th consecutive
month and more deeply than expected in July, data showed on
Tuesday, hurt by a decline in car production due partly to
summer holidays.
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E.EUROPEAN GDP, OUTPUT DATA SIGNAL RECOVERY FRAGILE
A steep downward revision in Czech second-quarter GDP and
weakness in output across central Europe showed the fragility of
the region's recovery on Tuesday.
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COALITION MEETING
Leaders of the ruling coalition met on Tuesday but did not
open the coalition pact as intended by the junior government
party, the rightist Slovak National Party (SNS) which lost the
environment ministry due to questionable tenders.
Sme, page 1
REPORT ON CO2 EMISSIONS DEAL
Parliament will not debate the environment ministry's report
on the sale carbon emissions to U.S.-based Interblue Group,
after the ruling Smer party's deputy initiated a withdrawal of
the paper. Opposition claims Slovakia lost some 60 million euro
in the deal.
Sme, page 7
CHEAPER FUEL PRICES
Prices of gasoline fuels will fall by one euro-cent per
litre as of Wednesday, putting the average price per litre below
1.18 euro. Diesel fuels' prices remain flat, at around 1.11 euro
per litre.
Sme, page 10
SLOVAKIA LOSE ATTRACTIVENESS FOR INVESTORS
Slovakia hangs back behind its neighbour Poland and Czech
republic in terms of attractiveness for investors, World Economy
Forum report showed. Slovakia was the region's top spot
investors over the past eight years.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 1
PENTA EYES HUNAGRY'S HERTZ
Slovakia's private equity group Penta said was interested in
a stake in Hungary's meat-products producer Hertz.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 13
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