Slovakia - Factors To Watch on April 14

                                
 BRATISLAVA, April 14 (Reuters) - Here are news stories,
press reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak
financial markets on Monday.
                                
 
                                
 STATE BOND AUCTION
                                
 The Finance Ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
will auction 11-year, 5.3 percent state bonds, 0900 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 CPI AT 15-MONTH PEAK, EURO BID SEEN SAFE
                                
 Slovak inflation accelerated to a 15-month high in March,
data showed on Friday, but analysts said price growth should
remain well under the limit for planned euro adoption in 2009.
                                
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 PAPERS RUN BLANK FRONT PAGES TO PROTEST LAW
                                
 Slovakia's leading daily newspapers came out with blank
front pages on Friday in protest at a two-day-old media law they
say undermines press freedom.
                                
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 FEB TRADE TRADE SURPLUS ABOVE FORECASTS
                                
 Slovakia's foreign trade balance showed a surplus of 8.3
billion Slovak crowns ($406.1 million) in February compared with
a revised surplus of 7.2 billion crowns in January, the
Statistics Office said on Friday.
                                
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 CBANK FOREX RESERVES RISE TO $20 BLN
                                
 The Slovak central bank's (NBS) foreign currency reserves
rose to $20.010 billion as of April 9, from $19.879 billion on
April 2, the bank said on Friday.
                                
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 PRESS DIGEST
                                
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 MEDIA BILL
                                
 The Party of European Socialists (PES), the umbrella
organisation for left-wing parties in the European Union, will
analyse the new Slovak media law. 
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 PRIVATE PENSIONS
                                
 The head of the state-run pension insurer, Ivan Bernatek,
said inherited funds from the private-pension scheme should be
taxed.
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 OPPOSITION ROW
                                
 The SDKU-DS party of former Prime Minister Dzurinda and the
Christian Democrats, repeatedly criticised the ethnic Hungarian
SMK party for voting with the government on the EU treaty. The
two opposition factions said SMK was no longer a reliable
partner.
                                
 Pravda, page 4
                                
 
                                
 POWER GRID PROFIT
                                
 The Slovak Electricity Transmission System (SEPS), the
national power grid, said its 2007 profit jumped by 25 percent
on the year to 1.41 billion crowns ($69.05 million). Revenues
fell to 14.42 billion crowns from 15.27 billion in 2006.
                                
 Pravda, page 27
                                
 
                                
 ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION
                                
 Slovakia's electricity consumption is expected to continue
rising, driven by fast economic growth and increasing living
standards, said Konrad Kreuzer, the Chairman of power
distributor ZSE. ZSE is managed by Germany's E.ON <EONG.DE>.
                                
 Pravda, page 29
                                
 
                                
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