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
16/08 0700/0900 new industrial orders June N/F +2.6,+41.8 pct
16/08 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation July 0.0,+0.8 0.0,+0.7 pct
by20/08 n/a jobless rate July +12.3 +12.34 pct
02/09 0700/0900 GDP final data Q2/10 N/A +4.8 y/y pct
02/09 0700/0900 real average wage Q2/10 N/F +1.6 pct
08/09 0700/0900 industrial output July N/A +23.5 pct
10/09 0700/0900 foreign trade balance July N/A +208.2 mln euro
13/08 0700/0900 headline inflation July N/A +0.1,+1.1 pct
13/08 0700/0900 core inflation July N/A +0.1,+1.4 pct
16/08 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation July N/A N/A pct
16/08 0700/0900 new industrial orders June N/F N/A pct
08/10 0700/0900 industrial output Aug N/A N/A pct
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MONDAY, Aug 16
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 6-year, 3.5 percent-coupon state bonds.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish June new industrial orders
data.
*BRATISLAVA - Finance Minister Ivan Miklos and Labour, Social-Affairs
Minister Jozef Mihal to hold a news conference on planned saving in the state
budget expenditures.
byFRIDAY, Aug 20
BRATISLAVA - The Labour Office expected to publish July jobless rate data.
WEDNESDAY, Sept 1
National holiday, all banks, financial markets are closed.
THURSDAY, Sept 2
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish final gross domestic product
(GDP) growth data for the second quarter.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish average wage data in the
economy for the second quarter.
WEDNESDAY, Sept 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish July industrial output data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish July construction output data.
FRIDAY, Sept 10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish July foreign trade balance
data.
MONDAY, Sept 13
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, two-year, zero-coupon state bonds.
THURSDAY, Sept 30
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to submit the 2011 state budget draft to
the government.
FRIDAY, Oct 15
BRATISLAVA - The government expected to submit the final version of the 2011
state budget draft to the parliament.
MONDAY, Sept 27
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction six-year, 3.5 percent-coupon state bonds.
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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 2010:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
Aug 16 6-year fixed-coupon N/A
Aug 30 to be decided
Sept 13 2-year zero-coupon Jan 27, 2012
Sept 27 6-year fixed-coupon N/A
Oct 11 to be decided
Oct 25 2-year zero-coupon Jan 27, 2012
Nov 8 6-year fixed-coupon N/A
Nov 22 16-year 4.5 pct May 10, 2026
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NOTE:
- The debt agency will open four new issues next year.
- Three bonds -- 6-year, 10-year and 15-year -- each of them with nominal value
of 3.0 billion euros, all carrying a fixed-rate coupon.
- The two-year bond will carry a zero coupon, issue size 1.0 billion euro,
maturity date set for January 27, 2012.
- ARDAL has yet to set the fixed-coupon rate for the remaining bonds as well as
its maturity date.
- The Agency said market conditions and investors' sentiment will decide when
the new 10 and 15-year bonds will be placed.
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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 20. The second line will be
open on July 21.
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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.
