Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Nov 9

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Tuesday.
                                
 
                                
 SEPT INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT
                                
 The Statistics Office will publish September industrial
output data, 0800 GMT. Analysts surveyed by Reuters had expected
a 15.0 percent rise on the year, following a 16.3 percent
increase in the previous month.
                                
 
                                
 SE ON JASLOVSKE BOHUNICE
                                
 Slovenske Elektrarne, Slovak unit of Italy's utility Enel
<ENEI.MI> will comment on future plans on Jaslovske Bohunice
nuclear power plant modernisation.
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAK FINMIN: FED MOVE MAY EXTEND CRISIS -PAPER
                                
 Slovak Finance Minister Ivan Miklos criticised on Monday the
U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to buy $600 billion worth of
government bonds, saying it was a short-term measure that could
extend the economic crisis.
                                
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 SLOVAKIA SELLS 121 MLN EURO WORTH OF 6-YEAR BONDS
                                
 Slovakia sold 121 million euros ($169.9 million) worth of
six-year, 3.5 percent state bonds <SK240216213=> in an auction
on Monday, the finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management
Agency (ARDAL) said.
                                
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 A PROMINENT LAWYER SHOT DEAD
                                
 Ernest Valko, Slovakia's prominent lawyer and former head of
the Constitutional Court of Czech-Slovak Federative Republic
(CSFR) in 1992, was shot dead late on Monday, police reported.
Valko defended Slovakia in various cases.
                                
 www.sme.sk
                                
 
                                
 AUSTRIAN VOLKSBANK EYES SALE OF SLOVAK UNIT
                                
 Austrian Volksbank International considers to sell its
eastern European units, including Slovak unit Volksbank
Slovakia. Volksbank is due to re-pay 700 million euro to the
Austrian government next year.
                                
 Sme, page 8
                                
 
                                
 COALITION RETAINS MAJORITY, SMER DROPS - POLL
                                
 The strongest opposition party SMER, of ex-Prime Minister
Robert Fico, retained its lead in an opinion poll conducted by
Median agency, but its popularity dropped. Parties of the ruling
coalition, led by Prime Minister Iveta Radicova, preserved
majority.
                                
 www.hnoline.sk
                                
 
                                
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