Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Feb 15

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Monday.
                                
 
                                
 DEC NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDERS
                                
 The Statistics Office will publish new industrial orders
data for December, 0800 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 147-DAY T-BILL AUCTION
                                
 The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) will auction 147-day treasury-bills.
                                
 
                                
 PM FICO TO MEET ECONMIN ON PRIORITIES
                                
 Prime Minister Robert Fico will meet Economy Minister
Lubomir Jahnatek to debate ministry's future priorities.
                                
 
                                
 EASTERN EU RECOVERY HITS SPEED BUMP, ROCKY ROAD AHEAD
                                
 The economic recovery shuddered to a halt in the Czech
Republic at the end of 2009, while Hungary and Romania remained
mired in recession as the European Union's emerging east ended
the year deep in the red.
                                
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 RECOVERY CONTINUES, CPI AT RECORD LOWS
                                
 The Slovak economy rose by a less than expected 2 percent in
the last quarter of 2009, from the previous three months, but
growth accelerated from 1.6 percent in the third quarter.
                                
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 BIATHLON-KUZMINA STRIKES GOLD FOR FIRST WIN
                                
 Slovakia's Anastazia Kuzmina saved her first major victory
for the sport's biggest stage by winning the Olympic 7.5 km
biathlon sprint on Saturday.
                                
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 PM FICO WANTS FINMIN TO SERVE SECOND TERM
                                
 Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Monday he
would like nonpartisan Finance Minister Jan Pociatek to remain
in his post, if Fico's Smer party is part of a government after
a June general election.
                                
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 VOLKSWAGEN SLOVAKIA TO BOOST PRODUCTION
                                
 Volkswagen Slovakia, unit of Germany's car group Volkswagen
<VOWG_p.DE>, plans to boost its annual production to 400,000
cars in 2011, the Head of Slovak unit said, confirming they will
stop production of Skoda Octavia in May.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 17
                                
 
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