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UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR-------------PERIOD-----FORECAST----------PRIOR
01/02 0900/1000 state budget Jan N/F +800.3 mln euro
08/02 0800/0900 industrial output Dec N/A +17.3 pct
09/02 0800/0900 foreign trade Dec/FY-10 N/A +67.0 mln euro
11/02 0800/0900 headline inflation Jan N/A +0.3,+1.3 pct
11/02 0800/0900 core inflation Jan N/A +0.3,+1.9 pct
15/02 0080/0900 GDP flesh estimate Q4/10 N/A +3.8 pct
15/02 0800/0900 new industrial orders Dec N/A N/A pct
28/02 0800/0900 EU-norm inflation Jan N/A +0.2,+1.3 pct
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TUESDAY, Feb 1
BRATISLAVA - Germany's Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner to meet her Slovak
counterpart Zsolt Simon.
WEDNESDAY, Feb 2
BRATISLAVA - Government meeting.
MONDAY, Feb 7
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, 14-year, 4.35 percent-coupon state bonds.
TUESDAY, Feb 8
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish December industrial output
data.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish December construction output
data.
WEDNESDAY, Feb 9
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish December foreign trade balance
data.
BRATISLAVA - Government meeting.
FRIDAY, Feb 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish January headline and core
inflation data.
TUESDAY, Feb 15
BRATISLAVA - Slovakia to host a summit of Visegrad Group countries on the
occasion of its 20th anniversary. Prime ministers of Germany, Austria and
Ukraine will also be present. Leaders will discuss energy, as well as regional
and European neighbourhood policy issues.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish Q4/10 GDP growth flash
estimate.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish December new industrial orders
data.
MONDAY, Feb 21
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, 5-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
Feb 7 14-year 4.35 percent Oct 14, 2025
Feb 21 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
March 7 2-year floating-coupon Oct 14, 2013
March 21 TO BE DECIDED
April 4 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
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 date to be set
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 date to be set
Oct 31 5-year 3.5 percent Feb 24, 2016
Nov 14 TO BE DECIDED
Nov 28 3-year zero-coupon date to be set
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.
