This diary is updated every weekday and new listings or amendments are
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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
15/04 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation March +0.2,+3.6 +0.3,+3.5 pct
by20/04 1000/1200 jobless rate March 13.07 13.16 pct
27/04 0800/1000 current account Feb N/F -54.0 mln euro
02/05 0800/1000 central state budget Jan-April N/F -655.2 mln euro
05/05 0700/0900 industrial output March N/A +10.8 pct
10/05 0700/0900 foreign trade March N/A +36.8 mln
12/05 0700/0900 new industrial orders March N/F -1.2, +21.3 pct
12/05 0700/0900 headline inflation April N/A +0.4,+3.6 pct
12/05 0700/0900 core inflation April N/A +0.5,+2.2 pct
13/05 0700/0900 GDP flash estimate Q1/11 N/A +0.9,+3.5 pct
by21/05 1000/1200 jobless rate April N/A N/A pct
01/06 0800/1000 central state budget Jan-May N/A N/A mln euro
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FRIDAY, April 15
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March EU-norm inflation data.
BRATISLAVA - Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano to start a one-day visit
to Slovakia.
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.
WEDNESDAY, April 27
BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish preliminary February current
account balance data, revised January.
MONDAY, May 2
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction 14-year, 4.35 percent-coupon state bonds.
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry to publish January-April central state
budget data.
THURSDAY, May 5
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March industrial and
construction output data.
TUESDAY, May 10
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March foreign trade data.
THURSDAY, May 12
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish March new industrial orders.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April headline and core
inflation data.
FRIDAY, May 13
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish the gross domestic product
(GDP) growth flash estimate for the first quarter of the year.
MONDAY, May 16
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish April EU-norm inflation data.
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.
