This diary is updated every weekday and new listings or amendments are
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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
10/01 0800/0900 foreign trade Nov N/A +145.3 mln euro
10/01 0800/0900 industrial output Nov N/A +13,4 pct
14/01 0800/0900 headline inflation Dec N/A +0.3,+1.0 pct
14/01 0800/0900 core inflation Dec N/A +0.3,+1.5 pct
17/01 0800/0900 new industrial orders Nov N/A +2.1,+23.7 pct
14/01 0800/0900 EU-norm inflation Dec N/A +0.3,+1.0 pvt
by20/01 0800/0900 jobless rate Dec N/A +12.22 pct
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FRIDAY, Dec 24
BRATISLAVA - Christmas Eve - Banks and markets to be closed.
MONDAY, Jan 3
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish end-2010 central state budget
data.
FRIDAY, Jan 7
BRATISLAVA - National holiday - Banks and markets to be closed.
MONDAY, Jan,10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish November foreign trade data
and November industrial production data.
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction nine-year, 4 percent coupon state bonds.
FRIDAY, Jan,14
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish December headline inflation,
core inflation and EU-norm inflation data.
MONDAY, Jan, 17
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish November new industrial orders
data.
THURSDAY, Jan, 20
BRATISLAVA - The Labour Office expected to publish Decemberjobless rate data.
MONDAY, Jan 24
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, tow-year, floating 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
Jan 10 9-year 4.0 percent April 27, 2020
Jan 24 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
Feb 7 14-year 4.35 percent Oct 14, 2025
Feb 21 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
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.
