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
08/04 0700/0900 industrial output Feb +15.0 17.1 pct
08/04 0700/0900 foreign trade blance Feb +80.0 +136.0 mln euro
12/04 0700/0900 new industrial orders Feb N/F -3.1,+28.4 pct
13/04 0700/0900 headline inflation March +0.2,+3.4 +0.3,+3.3 pct
13/04 0700/0900 core inflation March +0.2,+2.1 +0.4,+1.8 pct
15/04 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation March +0.2,+3.6 +0.3,+3.5 pct
by21/04 0800/1000 jobless rate March 13.07 13.16 pct
01/05 0800/1000 central state budget Jan-April N/A -655.2 mln euro
05/05 0700/0900 industrial output March N/A N/A pct
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WEDNESDAY, April 6
STRBA - Government meeting.
FRIDAY, April 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February industrial output
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February foreign trade balance
data.
TUESDAY, April 12
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish February new industrial
orders.
WEDNESDAY, April 13
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March headline and core
inflation data.
FRIDAY, April 15
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March EU-norm inflation data.
MONDAY, April 18
*BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish its updated stress tests of Slovak
financial system.
byWEDNESDAY, April 20
BRATISLAVA - The labour office expected to publish March jobless rate data.
BRATISLAVA - Government meeting.
THURSDAY, April 21
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 9-year, 4.0 percent-coupon state bonds.
FRIDAY, April 22
Easter Friday, all banks and financial markets are closed.
MONDAY, April 25
Easter Monday, all banks and financial markets are closed.
MONDAY, May 2
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 14-year, 4.35 percent-coupon state bonds.
MONDAY, May 30
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 15-year, 4.5 percent-coupon state bonds.
MONDAY, June 13
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction two-year, floating-coupon state bonds.
MONDAY, June 27
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction five-year, 3.5 percent-coupon state bonds.
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The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the 20th
of each month.
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TREASURY BONDS: The following is a schedule of treasury bond and treasury
bill auctions for 2011:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
April 21 9-year 4.0 percent April 27, 2020
May 2 14-year 4.35 percent Oct 14, 2025
May 15 TO BE DECIDED
May 30 15-year 4.5 percent May 10, 2026
June 13 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
June 27 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
July 17 3-year zero-coupon April 7, 2014
Aug 22 9-year 4.0 percent April 27, 2020
Sept 5 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
Sept 19 TO BE DECIDED
Oct 3 15-year 4.5 percent May 10, 2026
Oct 17 3-year zero-coupon April 7, 2014
Oct 31 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
Nov 14 TO BE DECIDED
Nov 28 3-year zero-coupon April 7, 2014
Dec 12 14-year 4.35 percent Oct 14, 2025
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NOTE:
- The debt agency will open two new issues next year.
- Three-year zero coupon state bonds -- issue size of 1.5 billion euro.
- Seven or ten-year bonds, carrying a fix-rate, issue size 3.0 billion euro.
- ARDAL has yet to set the fixed-coupon rate for the bonds as well as its
maturity date.
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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 19. The second line will be
open on July 13.
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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.
