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
03/12 0800/0900 final GDP growth Q3/09 -5.0 -5.3 pct
08/12 0800/0900 industrial output Oct N/A -5.7 pct
11/12 0800/0900 foreign trade Oct N/A +378.4 mln euro
11/12 0800/0900 headline inflation Nov N/A +0.1,+0.4 pct
11/12 0800/0900 core inflation Nov N/A 0.0,-0.8 pct
16/12 0800/0900 EU-norm inflation Nov N/A +0.2,-0.1 pct
11/01 0800/0900 industrial output Nov N/A N/A pct
11/01 0700/0900 foreign trade Nov N/A N/A mln euro
13/01 0700/0900 headline inflation Dec N/A N/A pct
13/01 0700/0900 core inflation Dec N/A N/A pct
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WEDNESDAY, Dec 2
BRATISLAVA - Government to hold its regular weekly meeting.
THURSDAY, Dec 3
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish final GDP growth data for the
third quarter.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish its updated economy growth and
inflation forecasts.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish real average wage data for the
third quarter.
TUESDAY, Dec 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October industrial output
data.
FRIDAY, Dec 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish November headline and core
inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October foreign trade balance
data.
MONDAY, Dec 14
BRATISLAVA - Finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency (ARDAL)
to auction four-year, 3.5 percent-coupon, state bonds.
MONDAY, Dec 15
*BRATISLAVA - Finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency (ARDAL)
expected to publish debt issuance calendar for 2010.
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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
Dec 14 4-year 3.5 pct March 4, 2013
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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