Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Oct 19

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Oct 19 (Reuters)  - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Monday.
                                
 
                                
 BOND AUCTION
                                
 Finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) will auction 17-year, 4.5 percent coupon, state bonds.
                                
 
                                
 PM FICO MEETS PSA SLOVAKIA CEO
                                
 Prime Minister Robert Fico will meet outgoing CEO of PSA
Peugeot Citroen Slovakia Jean Mouro and his successor Lucien
Bionde.
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAK PM SAYS MIGHT ALSO ASK FOR LISBON EXCEPTION
                                
 Slovakia may try to negotiate an opt out clause in the
European Union's Lisbon treaty to protect itself from potential
post-war property claims if the Czechs manage to do so first,
its prime minister said on Sunday.
                                
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 C.BANK GOV IN RUNNING FOR ANOTHER TERM-PAPER
                                
 Slovakia's outgoing central bank governor Ivan Sramko, who
is also a European Central Bank governing board member, is among
the government's top candidates to be the bank's chief in the
upcoming period, daily Sme reported on Saturday.
                                
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 OMV SAYS AUSTRIAN-SLOVAK PIPELINE DONE BY 2012
                                
 Austrian refiner OMV <OMVV.VI> said on Friday it expected a
link to bring Russian crude to its refinery near Vienna to be
ready by 2012.
                                
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 CSAKY, ORBAN ON FELVIDEK
                                
 Slovak coalition and two opposition parties criticised
Hungary's centre-right opposition leader Viktor Orban speech on
Felvidek, an ancient Hungarian name for Slovakia, while
attending gathering of opposition party the ethnic Hungarians
(SMK).
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 SCRAP-SCHEME BOOST SALES OF NEW CARS
                                
 Scrapping-scheme boosted sales of new cars in Slovakia by
1.6 percent to 72,803 vehicles in the first nine months of the
year, while number of purchased used cars fell almost by 20
percent to 61,327 units.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
                                
 SDKU STRESSES COOPERATION WITH KDH
                                
 Mikulas Dzurinda, leader of the biggest opposition party
SDKU, stressed need to boost ties with its opposition partner
the Christian Democrats (KDH) ahead on June 2010 general
election, to compete with Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer
party.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 6
                                
 
                                
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