Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Jan 17

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Monday.
                                
 
                                
 NOV NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDERS
                                
 The Statistics Office will publish November new industrial
orders data, 0800 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 364-DAY TREASURY BILLS AUCTION
                                
 The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) will auction 364-day treasury bills. ARDAL expected to
auction 200 million euros worth of the bills, according to its
December report.
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAKS BID FOR HOME-GROWN RATE-SETTER AT ECB
                                
 Euro zone minnow Slovakia put its hat in the ring on Friday
for a greater say in the region's monetary policy decisions,
presenting its own candidate to replace outgoing ECB rate-setter
Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell.
                                
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 SLOVAKS FAVOUR ECB CAPITAL HIKE OVER EFSF BOOST-WEBSITE
                                
 Slovakia prefers boosting the ECB's capital to expanding the
bloc's rescue fund to tackle the euro area's debt crisis, Slovak
Prime Minister Iveta Radicova told a Czech news website on
Friday.
                                
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 GREECE SHOULD RESTRUCTURE ITS DEBT--SLOVAK FINMIN
                                
 Granting Greece a multi-billion euro bailout was a mistake
and the Mediterranean country would be better off restructuring
its debt, Slovakia's finance minister said in a Greek newspaper
interview.
                                
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 DEC INFLATION IN LINE WITH FORECASTS
                                
 Slovakia's consumer prices, calculated under the EU
methodology, rose as expected by 0.2 percent on the month in
December, putting the annual inflation rate at 1.3 percent, the
Statistics Office data showed on Friday.
                                
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 ERSTE SAYS WORST E. EUROPE LOAN LOSSES OVER-PAPER
                                
 The worst of Erste Group Bank's <ERST.VI> loan losses in
eastern Europe are over, the head of emerging Europe's
third-biggest bank was quoted as saying, adding it was on the
lookout for acquisitions in the region.
                                
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 CHANGES IN LABOUR CODE NECESSARY
                                
 Changes in country's labour code are inevitable as current
labour market is not flexible enough and the government should
yield to the unions' pressure, a senior member of junior
government party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) said.
                                
 Hospodarske noviny, page 4
                                
 
                                
 FREIGHT COMPANIES ON STRIKE ALERT
                                
 Road freight companies declared strike alert on Saturday in
reaction to bugs in Slovak road-toll system, asking the
government for an audit of the system.
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 BOOSTING EFSF CAPACITY NOT A SOLUTION
                                
 Finance Minister Ivan Miklos said an eventual increase in
the capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)
was no a sole solution to the euro zone's ongoing debt crisis.
                                
 Hospodarske noviny, page 9
                                
 
                                
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 (Compiled by Petra Kovacova and  Martin Santa in Bratislava)