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
03/03 0800/0900 GDP growth final Q4/10-FY/10 N/A +3.8,-4.8 pct
03/03 0800/0900 real average wage Q4/10-FY/10 N/F +2.6,+1.4 pct
08/03 0800/0900 industrial output Jan N/A N/A pct
11/03 0800/0900 headline inflation Feb N/A N/A pct
11/03 0800/0900 core inflation Feb N/A N/A pct
11/03 0800/0900 foreign trade blance Jan N/A N/A mln euro
14/03 0800/0900 new industrial orders Jan N/F N/A pct
16/03 0800/0900 EU-norm inflation Feb N/A +2.1,+3.2 pct
by20/03 0900/1000 jobless rate Feb N/A 12.98 pct
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TUESDAY, March 1
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish January-February central state
budget data.
WEDNESDAY, March 2
BRATISLAVA - Government to hold a weekly meeting.
THURSDAY, March 3
*BRATISLAVA - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Germany's foreign
minister Guido Westerwelle to meet their Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak
counterparts.
MONDAY, March 7
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, two-year, floating-coupon state bonds.
by MONDAY, March 21
BRATISLAVA - The labour office expected to publish February jobless rate
data.
MONDAY, April 4
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, three-year, zero-coupon state bonds.
byWEDNESDAY, April 20
BRATISLAVA - The labour office expected to publish March jobless rate data.
THURSDAY, April 21
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, 9-year, 4.0 percent-coupon state bonds.
MONDAY, May 2
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, 14-year, 4.35 percent-coupon state bonds.
MONDAY, May 30
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, 15-year, 4.5 percent-coupon state bonds.
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The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the 20th
of each month.
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TREASURY BONDS: The following is a schedule of treasury bond and treasury
bill auctions for 2011:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
March 7 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
March 21 TO BE DECIDED
April 4 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
April 21 9-year 4.0 percent April 27, 2020
May 2 14-year 4.35 percent Oct 14, 2025
May 15 TO BE DECIDED
May 30 15-year 4.5 percent May 10, 2026
June 13 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
June 27 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
July 17 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
Aug 22 9-year 4.0 percent April 27, 2020
Sept 5 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
Sept 19 TO BE DECIDED
Oct 3 15-year 4.5 percent May 10, 2026
Oct 17 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
Oct 31 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
Nov 14 TO BE DECIDED
Nov 28 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
Dec 12 14-year 4.35 percent Oct 14, 2025
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NOTE:
- The debt agency will open two new issues next year.
- Three-year zero coupon state bonds -- issue size of 1.5 billion euro.
- Seven or ten-year bonds, carrying a fix-rate, issue size 3.0 billion euro.
- ARDAL has yet to set the fixed-coupon rate for the bonds as well as its
maturity date.
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TREASURY BILLS:
- The debt agency will auction two new treasury bills, both with an initial
maturity of 364-days and both of total nominal value of 2.0 billion euros.
- The first t-bill line will be placed on January 19. The second line will be
open on July 13.
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- Auction dates are binding, however, in case of any contingencies the Debt and
Liquidity Management Agency reserves the right of a change that will be
announced early in advance.
