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
04/03 0800/0900 GDP Q4/07, FY/07 N/A +9.4,+8.5 pct
07/03 0800/0900 construction output Jan N/F -1.2 pct
07/03 0800/0900 industrial output Jan N/A +6.4 pct
10/03 0800/0900 retail sales Jan N/A +5.1 pct
10/03 0800/0900 real ind wages Jan N/F -0.6 pct
13/03 0800/0900 headline inflation Feb N/A +1.3,+3.8 pct
13/03 0800/0900 core inflation Feb N/A +1.1,+4.1 pct
13/03 0800/0900 foreing trade Jan N/F -9.5 bln SKK
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MONDAY, March 3
BRATISLAVA - Central Bank Governor Ivan Sramko and Deputy Finance Minister
Frantisek Palko to address a conference on euro adoption.
TUESDAY, March 4
*BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico to address Bratislava university
students on euro adoption process.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish detailed data of 2007 gross
domestic product (GDP).
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish forecasts of GDP growth and
inflation for 2008.
WEDNESDAY, March 5
BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting.
FRIDAY, March 7
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January industrial output
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January construction output
data.
BRATSLAVA - The central bank to publish its weekly foreign currency reserves
data.
MONDAY, March 10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January retail sales data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January industrial wages data.
WEDNESDAY, March 12
BRATISLAVA - Regular government meeting.
WEDNESDAY, March 19
HUMENNE - The government to hold its weekly meeting in the eastern Slovak
town of Humenne.
TUESDAY, March 25
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
WEDNESDAY, March 26
BRATISLAVA - The regular government meeting.
TUESDAY, April 29
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish updated quarterly medium-term
forecast.
FRIDAY, March 7
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January construction output
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January industrial output
data.
MONDAY, March 10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January retail sales data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January industrial wage data.
WEDNESDAY, March 13
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February headline inflation
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February core inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January foreign trade data.
TUESDAY, March 25
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
TUESDAY, April 29
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish updated quarterly medium-term
forecast.
TUESDAY, May 20
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish report on Slovakia's 2007 monetary
development.
TUESDAY, May 27
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
TUESDAY, June 24
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
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The Slovak central bank's (NBS) monetary policy making Bank Board usually
holds a policy meeting on the last Tuesday of every month. The board may change
the date of its policy meetings.
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The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the
15th of each month.
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TREASURY BONDS:
The following is a schedule of treasury bond auctions for 2006:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
Feb 25 11-year 5.3 pct May 12, 2019
March 10 6-year 4.9 pct Feb 11, 2014
March 31 3-year zero-coupon March 31, 2011
April 14 11-year 5.3 pct May 12, 2019
April 28 to be announced
May 12 3-year zero-coupon March 31, 2011
May 26 18-year 4.5 pct May 10, 2026
June 9 9-year 4.2 pct April 4, 2017
June 23 3-year zero-coupon March 31, 2011
July 7 to be announced
Aug 25 9-year 4.2 pct April 4, 2017
Sept 8 10-year float-coupon Sept 8, 2018
Sept 22 18-year 4.5 pct May 10, 2026
Oct 6 3-year zero-coupon March 31, 2011
Oct 20 to be announced
Nov 3 10-year float-coupon Sept 8, 2018
Nov 14 18-year 4.5 pct May 10, 2026
Dec 1 3-year zero-coupon March 31, 2011
Dec 15 9-year 4.2 pct April 4, 2017
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