Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Oct 22

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Wednesday.
                                
 
                                
 GOVERNMENT MEETING
                                
 Government will hold its regular weekly meeting, cabinet is
expected to debate an analysis on Slovakia's bank sector drafted
by the finance ministry and the central bank, 0800 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 GOVT MEETS TOP EXPORTERS
                                
 Prime Minister Robert Fico, Finance Minister Jan Pociatek
and central bank Governor Ivan Sramko will meet heads of
country's six largest exporters, 1230 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 PARLIAMENT SESSION
                                
 Parliament will continue its regular monthly session. The
agenda will include fast track procedures on government
legislation boosting bank deposit guarantees.
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 C.BANK DRAINS SKK 173.2 BLN IN REPO TENDER
                                
 The Slovak central bank (NBS) accepted all bids in a regular
two-week repo tender on Tuesday, draining 173.152 billion crowns
($7.53 billion) from the market, NBS data showed.
                                
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 RWE MULLS TO BOOST MARKET SHARE
                                
 German utility RWE <RWEG.DE>, holding a 49 percent stake in
Slovak power utility VSE, said aims to boost its market share in
gas-deliveries for large companies to 5 percent by 2011. RWE has
started to sell gas in Slovakia in August.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
                                
 JOB CUTS
                                
 Slovakia's association of job agencies said it expects some
1,000 Slovaks, mainly in the car and electronics sectors, to
loose jobs due to impacts of global financial crisis. German car
group Volkswagen <VOWG.DE> already cut 400 of leased workers.
                                
 Pravda, page 1
                                
 
                                
 BANK DEPOSITS
                                
 Parliament has approved a fast-track proceeding for the
government's proposal to expand insurance to the full amount of
bank deposits after the global financial crisis pushed other
European Union members to broadened their guarantees.
                                
 Pravda, page 17
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAKS PULL OUT FROM OPEN SHARE FUNDS
                                
 Slovaks withdrew 6.8 billion crowns ($294.4 million) from
open shares funds, Slovakia's Association of Trustee Companies
said.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 1
                                
 
                                
 SPP INVESTMENT
                                
 Gas monopoly Slovensky Plynarensky Priemysel (SPP), managed
by a consortium of GDF Suez SA <GSZ.PA> and E.ON Ruhrgas
<EONGn.DE>, said plans to invest 2 billion crowns into
reconstruction and modernisation of the pipeline network.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 15
                                
 
                                
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