DIARY - Slovakia - to October 15, 2012

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. ===============================================================================

UPCOMING ECONOMIC INDICATORS DATE-----GMT/LOCAL-----INDICATOR-------------PERIOD---FORECAST-----------PRIOR- 03/10 0800/1000 current account July n/f +364.0 mln eur 09/10 0700/0900 foreign trade Aug n/a +399.0 mln eur 09/10 0700/0900 industrial output Aug n/a +18.5 pct 12/10 0700/0900 new industrial orders July n/f +5.4,+37.9 pct 12/10 0700/0900 headline inflation Aug n/a +0.1,+3.7 pct 12/10 0700/0900 core inflation Aug n/a 0.0,+2.9 pct 16/10 0700/0900 EU-norm inflation Aug n/a 0.0,+3.8 pct

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TUESDAY, Oct 2

BRATISLAVA - The central bank to comment on preliminary July current account data.

WEDNESDAY, Oct 3

BRATISLAVA - The central bank to publish preliminary July and revised June current account data.

BRATISLAVA - The government to hold regular weekly meeting. The cabinet to debate state aid for foreign investors with businesses in Slovakia, including Samsung Electronics.

FRIDAY, Oct 5

BRATISLAVA - European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and heads of 15 EU member countries, including Spain, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus to attend a summit of EU Friends of Cohesion.

TUESDAY, Oct 9

BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish August foreign trade data.

BRATISLAVA - The Statistics Office to publish August industrial output data.

WEDNESAY, Oct 10

BRATISLAVA - The government to hold its meeting, 2013 state budget draft on agenda.

MONDAY, Oct 15

BRATISLAVA - The legal deadline for the government to submit the 2013 state budget draft to the parliament.

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The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the 20th of each month. ===============================================================================

TREASURY BONDS: The following is a schedule of treasury bond and treasury bill auctions for 2012: AUCTION DATE MATURITY COUPON MATURITY DATE Oct 15 to be announced Nov 12 to be announced Dec 10 to be announced

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NOTE:

- The debt agency will open two new issues next year. - Three-year zero coupon state bonds -- issue size of 1.5 billion euro. - Seven or ten-year bonds, carrying a fix-rate, issue size 3.0 billion euro. - ARDAL has yet to set the fixed-coupon rate for the bonds as well as its maturity date. =========================================================================== TREASURY BILLS: =========================================================================== - 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. (Created by Martin Santa)

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