DIARY - Slovakia - to August 16, 2010

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

11/08 0700/0900 foreign trade balance June +36.0 +83.4 mln euro

13/08 0700/0900 headline inflation July 0.0,+1.0 0.0,+1.0 pct
13/08 0700/0900 core inflation July
0.1,+1.2 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 0.0,+0.8 0.0,+0.7 pct by20/08 n/a jobless rate July +12.3 +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 =================================================================================

TUESDAY, Aug 10

*BRATISLAVA - The parliament will continue its session to vote on the government programme, a confidence vote, of Prime Minister Iveta Radicova's cabinet.



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 6-year, 3.5 percent-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.

=============================================================================== The Slovak Labour Office releases monthly unemployment figures around the 19th of each month. ===============================================================================

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
=========================================================================== 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. =========================================================================== 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. =========================================================================== - 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.

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