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
28/11 0800/0900 producer prices Oct +0.1,+6.4 +0.6,+6.8 pct
03/12 0800/0900 retail sales Oct N/A +4.6 pct
04/12 0800/0900 final GDP Q3/08 +7.1 +7.6 pct
04/12 0800/0900 economy real wage Q3/08 N/F +4.8 pct
08/12 0800/0900 construction output Oct N/F +17.2 pct
08/12 0800/0900 industrial output Oct N/A +5.5 pct
10/12 0800/0900 real industrial wages Oct N/F +4.0 pct
11/12 0800/0900 headline inflation Nov N/A +0.4,+5.1 pct
11/12 0800/0900 core inflation Nov N/A +0.2,+4.9 pct
12/12 0800/0900 foreign trade Oct N/A +2.578 bln SKK
17/12 0800/0900 EU-norm inflation Nov N/A +0.3,+4.2 pct
23/12 0800/0900 producer prices Nov N/A N/A pct
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TUESDAY, Nov 25
*BRATISLAVA - The policy-making board of Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer
party to meet.
*BRATISLAVA - Parliament to start a regular session. The agenda includes
debate on the 2009 state budget draft. No date for vote on the budget bill set.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish January-Sept current account data.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish gross foreign debt data as of
end-Aug.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to hold regular two-week repo tender.
WEDNESDAY, Nov 26
BRATISLAVA - Weekly government meeting
THURSDAY, Nov 27
*BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico and government ministers to answer
queries from MPs during a question hour in parliament.
*BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico to address an economic conference on
euro adoption.
FRIDAY, Nov 28
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October producer price data.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish weekly foreign currency reserves
data.
MONDAY, Dec 1
*BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to
auction 3-year, zero-coupon state bonds.
WEDNESDAY, Dec 3
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October retail sales data.
THURSDAY, Dec 4
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish final GDP data for the third
quarter.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish real average wage data for the
third quarter.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish its updated quarterly
macro-prognosis.
*BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Robert Fico and government ministers to answer
queries from MPs during a question hour in parliament.
MONDAY, Dec 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October construction output
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October industrial output
data.
WEDNESDAY, Dec 10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October real industrial wage
data.
THURSDAY, Dec 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish November inflation data
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish November inflation data.
FRIDAY, Dec 12
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish October foreign trade data.
MONDAY, Dec 15
*BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency to
auction 9-year , 4.2 percent state bonds.
WEDNESDAY, Dec 17
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish November EU-norm inflation
data.
FRIDAY, Dec 19
BRATISLAVA - The central bank's policy-making board to hold its monthly
monetary policy meeting.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish January-Oct current account data.
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish gross foreign debt data as of
end-Sept.
TUESDAY, Dec 23
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish November producer prices data.
WEDNESDAY, Dec 24
Christmas holiday, all financial markets closed.
THURSDAY, Dec 25
Christmas holiday, all financial markets closed.
FRIDAY, Dec 26
Christmas holiday, all financial markets closed.
THURSDAY, Jan 1
Slovakia to become the 16th member of the euro zone.
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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 2008:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
Dec 1 3-year zero-coupon March 31, 2011
Dec 15 9-year 4.2 pct April 4, 2017
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