This diary is updated every weekday and new listings or amendments are
marked *.
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
09/08 0700/0900 industrial output June N/A +31.0 pct
11/08 0700/0900 foreign trade balance June N/A +83.4 mln euro
13/08 0700/0900 headline inflation July N/A 0.0,+1.0 pct
13/08 0700/0900 core inflation July N/A 0.0,+1.2 pct
13/08 0700/0900 GDP flash estimate Q2/10 N/A +4.8 y/y pct
16/08 0700/0900 new industrial orders June N/F n/a pct
16/08 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation July N/A 0.0,+0.7 pct
by20/08 n/a jobless rate July N/A +12.34 pct
02/09 0700/0900 GDP final data Q2/10 N/A +4.8 y/y pct
02/09 0700/0900 real average wage Q2/10 N/F +1.6 pct
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THURSDAY, Aug 5
*BRATISLAVA - The parliament will continue its session to vote on the
government programme, a confidence vote, of Prime Minister Iveta Radicova's
cabinet.
MONDAY, Aug 9
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish June industrial output data.
WEDNESDAY, Aug 11
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish June foreign trade balance
data.
FRIDAY, Aug 13
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish the gross domestic product
(GDP) growth flash estimate for the second quarter.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish July headline and core
inflation data.
MONDAY, Aug 16
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, six-year, fixed-coupon state bonds.
BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish June new industrial orders
data.
MONDAY, Sept 13
BRATISLAVA - The finance ministry's Debt and Liquidity Management Agency
(ARDAL) to auction, two-year, zero-coupon state bonds.
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The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the 19th
of each month.
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TREASURY BONDS: The following is a schedule of treasury bond and treasury
bill auctions for 2010:
AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE
Aug 16 6-year fixed-coupon N/A
Aug 30 to be decided
Sept 13 2-year zero-coupon Jan 27, 2012
Sept 27 6-year fixed-coupon N/A
Oct 11 to be decided
Oct 25 2-year zero-coupon Jan 27, 2012
Nov 8 6-year fixed-coupon N/A
Nov 22 16-year 4.5 pct May 10, 2026
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NOTE:
- The debt agency will open four new issues next year.
- Three bonds -- 6-year, 10-year and 15-year -- each of them with nominal value
of 3.0 billion euros, all carrying a fixed-rate coupon.
- The two-year bond will carry a zero coupon, issue size 1.0 billion euro,
maturity date set for January 27, 2012.
- ARDAL has yet to set the fixed-coupon rate for the remaining bonds as well as
its maturity date.
- The Agency said market conditions and investors' sentiment will decide when
the new 10 and 15-year bonds will be placed.
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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 20. The second line will be
open on July 21.
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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.
