DIARY - Slovakia - to June 24, 2008

Wed Apr 9, 2008 10:53pm IST

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 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
 11/04    0700/0900  headline inflation        March    +0.2,+4.1  +0.4,+4.0 pct
 11/04    0700/0900  core inflation            March    +0.1,+4.4  +0.5,+4.3 pct
 11/04    0700/0900  foreing trade              Feb        +1.6     +6.6 bln SKK
 16/04    0700/0900  EU-norm inflation         March    +0.2,+3.5  +0.3,+3.4 pct
 28/04    0700/0900  producer prices           March    +0.2,+5.3  +2.4,+5.1 pct
 29/04 by 1400/1600  current account          end-Feb       N/F     -0.3 bln SKK
 29/04 by 1400/1600  gross foreign debt        Jan          N/F    -44.3 mln $
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 THURSDAY, April 10

*BRATISLAVA - Meeting of parliamentary parties to discuss vote on the
European Union's reform treaty. Deputies may vote on the treaty on Thursday or
Friday.

*BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico to address a seminar of pension
system.

 BRATISLAVA - Central bank Vice-governor Martin Barto to attend a conference
on healthcare financing.

 FRIDAY, April 11

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March headline inflation data.

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March core inflation data.

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February foreign trade balance
data.

 TUESDAY, April 15

 BRATISLAVA - Central Bank (NBS) Governor Ivan Sramko to attend a conference
on euro adoption.

 WEDNESDAY, April 16

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March EU-norm inflation data.

 BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting.

 MONDAY, April 28

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March producer prices data.

 TUESDAY, April 29

 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.

 BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish updated quarterly medium-term
forecast.

 FRIDAY, March 7

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January construction output
data.

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January industrial output
data.

 MONDAY, March 10

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January retail sales data.

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January industrial wage data.

 WEDNESDAY, March 13

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February headline inflation
data.

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February core inflation data.

 BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January foreign trade data.

 TUESDAY, March 25

 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.

 TUESDAY, April 29

 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.

 BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish updated quarterly medium-term
forecast.

 TUESDAY, May 20

 BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish report on Slovakia's 2007 monetary
development.

 TUESDAY, May 27

 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.

 TUESDAY, June 24

 BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.

 
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 The Slovak central bank's (NBS) monetary policy making Bank Board usually
holds a policy meeting on the last Tuesday of every month. The board may change
the date of its policy meetings.
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 The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the
15th of each month.

 
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  TREASURY BONDS:
  The following is a schedule of treasury bond auctions for 2006:
 AUCTION DATE           MATURITY           COUPON           MATURITY DATE
  April 14             11-year            5.3 pct           May 12,  2019
  April 28                            to be announced
  May 12                3-year          zero-coupon        March 31, 2011
  May 26               18-year            4.5 pct            May 10, 2026
  June 9                9-year            4.2 pct          April 4,  2017
  June 23               3-year          zero-coupon        March 31, 2011
  July 7                              to be announced
  Aug 25                9-year            4.2 pct          April 4,  2017
  Sept 8               10-year         float-coupon         Sept 8,  2018
  Sept 22              18-year            4.5 pct           May 10,  2026
  Oct 6                 3-year          zero-coupon       March 31,  2011
  Oct 20                              to be announced
  Nov 3                10-year          float-coupon        Sept 8,  2018
  Nov 14               18-year            4.5 pct           May 10,  2026
  Dec 1                 3-year          zero-coupon       March 31,  2011
  Dec 15                9-year            4.2 pct          April 4,  2017
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