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UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR-------------PERIOD------FORECAST---------PRIOR
08/07 0700/0900 industrial output May N/A -24.8 pct
10/07 0700/0900 foreign trade May N/A +372.4 mln euro
10/07 0700/0900 headline inflation June N/A +0.2,+2.2 pct
10/07 0700/0900 core inflation June N/A +0.2,+1.1 pct
15/07 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation June N/A N/A pct
by19/07 N/A jobless rate June N/A N/A pct
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WEDNESDAY, June 24
BRATISLAVA - Weekly government meeting.
THURSDAY, June 25
BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico and government ministers to answer
queries from MPs during a parliamentary question hour.
TUESDAY, June 30
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish April current account data.
WEDNESDAY, July 1
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish Jan-June central state budget
data.
BRATISLAVA - Weekly government meeting
WEDNESDAY, July 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish May industrial output data.
BRATISLAVA - Weekly government meeting
FRIDAY, July 10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish May foreign trade data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish June headline inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish June core inflation data.
WEDNESDAY, July 15
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish June EU-norm inflation 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
June 22 8-year 4.2 pct April 4, 2017
July 6 to be decided
Aug 24 4-year fixed-coupon N/A
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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