DIARY-Japan-Dec 2 -BOJ's Suda to speak, Reuters Tankan

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Wednesday, Dec. 2

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Laszlo Solyom, President of Hungary, begins five-day visit
to Japan.

2330* -- Reuters Tankan for November [JPRTAN=ECI] ECONJP

2350* -- Monetary base for November [JPMONB=ECI]

0100 -- Bank of Japan board member Miyako Suda meets local
business leaders in Kofu, central Japan

0430 -- Suda news conference

0500 -- Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, a U.N. special envoy on
Somalia to speak at Japan National Press Club

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Thursday, Dec. 3

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Laszlo Solyom, President of Hungary, to meet Prime
Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

2350* -- Ministry of Finance capital expenditure survey for
July-September

0130 -- Liquidity enhancing JGB auction

0415 -- Liquidity enhancing JGB auction result

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Friday, Dec. 4

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.

-- Asian Development Bank Institute to hold a conference on
"Effects of Social Policy on Domestic Demand".

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Monday, Dec. 7

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

*0030 -- Economist magazine's "9th Business Roundtable with
the Government of Japan". Senior vice minister for the economy,
Motohisa Furukawa and senior vice financial services minister
Kohei Otsuka to attend.

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Tuesday, Dec. 8

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Bank lending, money stock data for November
[JPBNK=ECI] ECONJP

2350* -- Current account for October [JPCURA=ECI]

-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.

0130 -- 30-year JGB auction

0345 -- 30-year JGB auction result

0500 -- November economy watchers' survey [JPEWDI=ECI]

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Wednesday, Dec. 9

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Revised July-September GDP data [JPGDR1=ECI]
ECONJP

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Thursday, Dec. 10

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- November corporate goods price index [JPCGP=ECI]
[JPCGPY=ECI] ECONJP

2350* -- October machinery orders data [JPMORD=ECI]

0130 -- 5-year JGB auction

0345 -- 5-year JGB auction result

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Friday, Dec. 11

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.

0500 -- November consumer confidence index [JPCONI=ECI]
ECONJP

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Monday, Dec. 14

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Bank of Japan December tankan corporate sentiment
survey [JPBCLG=ECI] [JPBCLN=ECI] ECONJP

0430* -- Revised industrial output for October [JPIP4=ECI]

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Tuesday, Dec. 15

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

0130 -- 20-year JGB auction

0345 -- 20-year JGB auction result

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