Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Sept 2

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Tuesday.
                                
 
                                
 STATE BUDGET
                                
 Finance ministry will publish state budget data for
January-August period.
                                
 
                                
 COALITION MEETING
                                
 Three leaders of the ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister
Robert Fico, will meet to debate finance ministry's 2009 state
budget draft.
                                
 
                                
 REPO TENDER
                                
 The central bank will hold its regular liquidity-draining
two-week repo tender.
                                
 
                                
 JULY PPI ABOVE FORECASTS
                                
 Slovak producer prices rose by 0.5 percent on the month in
July, more than doubling forecasts, putting annual growth of
factory-gate costs at 6.3 percent.
                                
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 C.BANK FOREX RESERVES EDGE UP TO $18.8 BLN
                                
 The Slovak central bank's (NBS) foreign currency reserves
edged up to $18.815 billion as of Aug. 26, from $18.717 billion
on Aug. 20, the bank said on Friday.
                                
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 PRESS DIGEST
                                
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 PRICE WATCH
                                
 The Statistics Office price watch, conducted on a 10-day
basis since the beginning of August, showed prices of some items
edged down. The Office gave no reasons for the drop. Analysts,
however, prefer market and consumer as control tools.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
                                
 GYURCSANY RULES OUT SLOVAK VISIT
                                
 Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany told his Slovak
counterpart Robert Fico he will not visit Slovakia, despite
Fico's several invitations, due to Fico's coalition partner, the
far-right Slovak nationalists, anti-Hungarian rhetoric.
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 PRIVATE SCHOOLS' PROFITS
                                
 Education Minister Jan Mikolaj said he considers to ban
private schools from making profits from school fees. Mikolaj
added he will decide after an ongoing analysis.
                                
 Sme, page 2
                                
 
                                
 BUSINESS SENTIMENT
                                
 Business sentiment edged up by 0.6 percentage point to 97.1
points on the month in August, but it's 11.5 points down on the
year and down by 3.9 percentage points compared with a long-term
average.
                                
 Sme, page 5
                                
 
                                
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vouch for their accuracy
                                
 
                                
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