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
05/11 0800/0900 retail sales Sept N/F -1.8 pct
09/11 0800/0900 industrial output Sept N/A 16.3 pct
11/11 0800/0900 foreign trade Sept N/A -200.0mln euro
12/11 0800/0900 headline inflation Oct N/A 0.0, 1.1 pct
12/11 0800/0900 core inflation Oct N/A 0.0, 1.3 pct
12/11 0800/0900 GDP flash estimate Q3/10 N/A +4.7 pct
16/11 0800/0900 EU-norm inflation Oct N/A 0.0, 1.1 pct
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TUESDAY, Oct 19
*BRATISLAVA - The Labour Office to publish September jobless rate data.
BRATISLAVA - Parliament continues its monthly session.
WEDNESDAY, Oct 20
BRATISLAVA - The government to hold a weekly meeting.
FRIDAY, Oct 22
BRATISLAVA - Slovak, Czech, Hungarian and Polish foreign ministers to meet
with their Western Balkan counterparts to debate future enlaragement of the
European Union.
FRIDAY, Nov 5
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September retail sales data.
TUESDAY, Nov 9
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September industrial output
data.
THURSDAY, Nov 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish September foreign trade data.
FRIDAY, Nov 12
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October headline and core
inflation data.
TUESDAY, Nov 16
* BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October EU-norm inflation
data.
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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
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.
