Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Jan 13

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Wednesday.
                                
 
                                
 DECEMBER HEADLINE, CORE INFLATION
                                
 The Statistics Office will publish December headline and
core inflation data, 0800 GMT. Analysts saw inflation up by 0.2
percent on the month, putting the annual inflation at 0.8
percent.
                                
 Core inflation was seen by 0.2 month-on-month and 0.1
percent on the year.
                                
 
                                
 GOVERNMENT MEETING
                                
 The government will hold its regular weekly meeting, its
first since early December, 0900 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 OPPOSITION MEETING
                                
 Leaders of the three opposition parties will meet and debate
current political issues.
                                
 
                                
 MAKUCH APPOINTED NEW SLOVAK C.BANK GOVERNOR
                                
 The Slovak president Ivan Gasparovic appointed Jozef Makuch
as new central bank governor on Tuesday, a position that gives
him a seat on the European Central Bank's governing council.
                                
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 FIVE FACTS ON SLOVAK CBANK GOVERNOR MAKUCH
                                
 Jozef Makuch was appointed governor of the Slovak National
Bank on Tuesday and will join the policy-making governing
council of the European Central Bank. 
                                
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 PSA ADDS WORKING HOURS DUE HIGHER DEMAND
                                
 PSA Peugeot Citroen Slovakia was boosting working hours
until April 9, adding four new production days over the
weekends, due to a high demand for its Citroen C3 Picasso and
Peugeot 207 models.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 13.
                                
 
                                
 SHADY EMISSION DEALS
                                
 Environment ministry informed that the U.S.-based Interblue
Group, holding option rights for Slovak carbon credits (AAU),
does not exist anymore. The new company Interblue Europe, based
in Switzerland, holds now all outstanding contracts.
                                
 Slovak police has started an investigation of the contract.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 1
                                
 
                                
 JUNIOR GOVT PARTY WANTS POLICE CHIEF GONE
                                
 Junior government party HZDS said the Head of police Jan
Packa should leave, following a botched airport security
exercise in which a Slovak man flew to Dublin unknowingly
carrying explosives in his luggage.
                                
 Hospodarske Noviny, page 4 
                                
 
                                
 C.BANK EX-GOVERNOR ON HIGHER TAXES
                                
 The ex-central bank governor Ivan Sramko said higher taxes,
designed to boost state budget revenue, would worsen the
business environment, adding the government's plan to cut
spending was a better way toward fiscal consolidation.
                                
 Sramko, who had rejected to serve for a second term,
declined to comment on his future job.
                                
 Pravda, page 10-11
                                
 
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