Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Feb 1

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Tuesday.
                                
 
                                
 JANUARY CENTRAL STATE BUDGET DATA
                                
 The finance ministry will publish January central state
budget data.
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAK AND GERMAN MINISTERS OF AGRICULTURE TO MEET
                                
 Slovak Agriculture Minister Zsolt Simon will meet his German
counterpart Ilse Aigner, press conference 1300 GMT
                                
 
                                
 PARLIAMENT SESSION
                                
 The parliament will start its February session, 1200 GMT
                                
 
                                
 UNIONS TO PROTEST AGAINST LABOUR CODE CHANGES
                                
 Unions will hold a protest meeting against government's
labour code changes in the eastern Slovak town of Michalovce,
1255 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAKS SELL EUR 153 MLN WORTH OF 161-DAY T-BILLS
                                
 Slovakia sold 152.9 million euros ($208.2 million) worth of
161-day treasury bills at an auction on Monday, the finance
ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency (ARDAL) said.
                                
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 SLOVAK AMENDED LABOUR CODE EYES MORE FLEXIBLE MKT
                                
 Slovakia plans to amend its labour code to boost job market 
flexibility and job creation and help bring down the euro zone
country's unemployment rate, the government said on Monday. 
                                
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 BANKS' PROFIT DOUBLES
                                
 Net profit of Slovakia-based banks jumped by more than 100
percent to 541 million euros ($742.9 million) last year, as
economic recovery lifted loans take-up and cut volume of
non-performing loans, the central bank data showed.
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 CSOB SELLS SLOVAK PENSION FUND
                                
 Czech bank CSOB said had agreed a sale of its Slovak private
pension fund, managing around 210 million euro worth of clients'
savings, to Slovak Postova Banka. The sale requires an approval
of the central bank and the anti-monopoly office.
                                
 Sme, page 7
                                
 
                                
 AT&T TO CREATE 200 NEW JOBS
                                
 Slovak unit of the U.S telecommunication company AT&T <T.N>
will add 200 new jobs to already existing 1,000, in capital
Bratislava and eastern Slovak town Kosice.
                                
 Hospodarske noviny, page 1 
                                
 
                                
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 (Compiled by Petra Kovacova in Bratislava)