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Economy

Online database accessible via internet in real time.

It is produced daily from 6:30 to 18:00, when necessary also longer. On working days it issues more than 100 news items, on Saturdays it only publishes extraordinary events, and on Sundays it issues on average over 30 news items from 9:30 to 15:30.

Archive since 1997 is available.

Structure of the service:

• Topical orientation of stories
  • economic policy and legislation
  • legislative process
  • ministries with economic portfolio and relevant departments
  • company information
  • economic results
  • statistical information
  • social and insurance system
  • social partnership
  • business information
  • privatization
  • internal and foreign trade
  • healthcare
  • energy industry
  • telecommunications and information technologies
  • automotive industry
  • tourism
  • water management and forestry
  • agriculture and food industry
  • stock exchange commentaries
  • financial market commentaries
  • ECB, monetary policy and monetary development
  • foreign companies
  • world financial, commodities, and stock markets
• Basic economic data
  • basic macroeconomic data of the Slovak Republic
  • prices of selected commodities on the world markets
  • information from the Central Depository of Securities
  • interest rates fixing on the interbank deposits market
• Exchange rates
  • exchange rate list of the ECB
  • exchange rates of foreign currencies in selected Slovak banks
  • exchange rates of foreign currencies in selected Slovak banks for the
    following day
  • exchange rates of foreign currencies in commercial payments in selected
    Slovak banks
  • exchange rates of foreign currencies in commercial payments in selected
    Slovak banks for the following day
  • most advantageous exchange rates of foreign currencies
  • forward rates of the Slovak crown in selected Slovak banks
  • cross rates of selected currencies
  • exchange rate of currencies of reforming countries
  • closing rates on the foreign exchange market
• Securities markets
  • BCPB (Bratislava Stock Exchange) - summary (daily and weekly)
  • BCPB - summary of anonymous share trading (daily and weekly)
  • BCPB - summary of direct share trading (daily and weekly)
  • BCPB - summary of anonymous bond trading (daily and weekly)
  • BCPB - summary of direct bond trading (daily and weekly)
  • BCPB - development of indexes (daily and weekly)
  • daily commentary of trading on the BCPB
  • weekly commentary of trading on the on the stock market in Slovakia
• Overview of anticipated events
  • scheduled events in the economy for the current day
  • scheduled events in the economy for the current day for the following day or
    the weekend
  • overview of anticipated events, including general shareholders
    meetings
  • overview of anticipated fairs and exhibitions
  • weekly schedule of anticipated events
  • notification to media news desks about a media event taking place on a given day, after news schedule for the current day was published
• Documents
  • overview of the most important reports from the local and world economy from the previous day
  • last week in the economy of the Slovak Republic (summary of most important events in the economy of the Slovak Republic for the past week)
  • economic points on the agenda of the cabinet session
  • other important documents