BRATISLAVA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Monday.
16-YR BOND ACUTION
The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) will auction 16-year, 4.5 percent-coupon state bonds.
DECEMBER INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT DATA
The Statistics Office will publish December industrial
output data. Analysts saw industrial output up by 5.6 percent,
after a 1.5 percent rise in November, 0800 GMT.
ESTONIA'S ANSIP VISIT
Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip to visit Slovakia,
scheduled to meet Prime Minister Robert Fico, Finance Minister
Jan Pociatek and central bank Governor Jozef Makuch.
SLOVAKS PLAN EUR 300 MLN IN BONDS ON FEB 22
Slovakia plans to sell government bonds worth around 300
million euros ($411.4 million) in an auction scheduled for
February 22, the country's debt agency said on Friday.
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SAMSUNG PLANS 100 MLN EURO UPGRADE TO SLOVAK PLANT
Samsung Electronics plans to invest 100 million euro ($137
million)in the next three years to modernise one of its
assembly plants in Slovakia, the company's Slovak unit said on
Friday.
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SLOVAK, CZECH RECOVERY ON TRACK IN Q4
The Czech and Slovak economies continued a gradual but
fragile recovery at the end of last year as activity picked up
in the euro zone, the countries' key trading partner, Reuters
polls showed on Friday.
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DEXIA GETS EU APPROVAL FOR RESTRUCTURING
European financial services group Dexia SA <DEXI.BR> got the
green light from the European Commission for its state-led
rescue and said it would divest assets across Europe as part of
the plan.
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DEPUTY FINMIN'S RUN FOR C.BANK VICE-GOVERNOR POST
Deputy Finance Minister Frantisek Palko is seen as a
frontrunner for the post of the central bank's vice-governor.
Junior government party HZDS, led by former Prime Minister
Vladimir Meciar, opposed his nomination.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 4
LABOUR MARKET SEEN STAYING STRESSED
Employers expected jobless rate would continue to rise in
the coming months, return to pre-crisis levels of as of
production volumes not to come soon, adding large investments
would not come sooner than 2013.
Hospodarske Noviny, page 19
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