DIARY - Turkey - to Jan 21, 2010
(All times are provisional and in GMT. For local time, add two hours. This diary is updated every day, and new listings or amendments are marked "*".) KEY INDICATORS DATE GMT/LOCAL INDICATOR PERIOD PRIOR 9/11 0800/1000 Industrial production Sept -6.3% 9/11 1430/1630 CPI forecast Nov +5.40 9/11 1500/1700 Treasury cash balance Oct -12.87b 10/11 1500/1700 Current account Sept +0.127b 12/11 0800/1000 Capacity utilisation Oct 70.1% 16/11 0800/1000 Unemployment Aug 12.8% 16/11 0800/1000 Consumer confidence Oct 81.92 16-20/11 N/A Budget balance Oct -9.48b 19/11 1700/1900 Interest rate decision Oct 6.75% 20/11 1530/1730 Govt debt stock Oct 431.1b 20/10 1430/1630 CPI forecast Nov N/A 23/11 0800/1000 Foreign arrivals Oct 5.2% 24/11 1500/1700 Manufacturing conf Nov 94.0 1/12 N/A TIM export figures Nov $9.945b 4/12 1500/1700 Trade balance Oct -$3.95b *3/12 1500/1700 CPI m/m Nov +2.41% *3/12 1500/1700 CPI y/y Nov +5.08% *3/12 1500/1700 PPI m/m Nov +0.28% *3/12 1500/1700 PPI y/y Nov +0.19%
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
ISTANBUL - Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) holds its Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation meeting. Until Nov 8.
PARIS - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visits France.
*ANKARA - Privatisation Administration to hold tender for three electricity distribution grids (0800, 1100 and 1330)
*ELAZIG - President Abdullah Gul visits the eastern province of Elazig.
*ANKARA - Economy Minister Ali Babacan to travel to Scotland for the G-20 meeting.
*ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to meet Armenian cleric Aram Atesyan (1330).
*BERLIN - Turkey's chief European Union negotiator Egemen Bagis to visit Germany.
*ANKARA - Military headquarters to hold weekly media briefing (0900).
*ISTANBUL - Ceremony to be held at Istanbul Stock Exchange to mark the start of trade in Ran Lojistik (0720)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7
ISTANBUL - Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) holds its Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation meeting. Until Nov 8.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8
ISTANBUL - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expected to arrive to attend OIC summit. Until Nov 9.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
*ISTANBUL - OIC holds economic summit.
*ISTANBUL - Lender Garanti Bank (GARAN.IS) expected to
release its third-quarter earnings.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
*ANKARA - Parliament to debate the government's initiative to boost democratic rights, particularly aimed at the country's Kurdish minority.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
ISTANBUL - Tupras (TUPRS.IS), Turkey's sole refiner, may
release third-quarter earnings statement.
ISTANBUL - Builder Tekfen TEKFN.IS is expected to release third-quarter earnings statement.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
ISTANBUL - Brewer Anadolu Efes (AEFES.IS) may release
third-quarter earnings statement.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
ISTANBUL - Deadline for non-financial companies to report consolidated third-quarter earnings and for banks to report unconsolidated earnings.
*NEW YORK - Mobile-phone operator Turkcell (TCELL.IS) (TKC.N) to release third-quarter financial results after postponing from Nov 4.
ISTANBUL - State lender Vakifbank (VAKBN.IS) expected to
report third-quarter earnings.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16
ANKARA - Treasury to sell 13-month lira-denominated zero-coupon bond at auction.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
ANKARA - Treasury to sell 21-month lira-denominated zero-coupon bond and five-year CPI-indexed government bond at auctions.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
ISTANBUL - Turkish shipping and finance conference.
ISTANBUL - Power & Electricity World Eurasia 2009 focusing on renewable energy.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19
ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee meets.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24
ANKARA - Treasury to sell seven-year lira-denominated floating-rate note at auction.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26
ISTANBUL - Deadline for banks to report consolidated third-quarter earnings.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27
NATIONWIDE - Financial markets close at mid-day to mark Islamic holidy of Eid al-Adha.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30
NATIONWIDE - Financial markets closed to mark Eid al-Adha. Until Dec 1.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7
WASHINGTON - Erdogan on state visit to United States.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17
ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee meets.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29
ANKARA - Next hearing in trial against pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) co-chairmen Ahmet Turk and Emine Ayna and deputy Selahattin Demirtas on charges they disseminated propaganda on behalf of Kurdish separatists.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 1
NATIONWIDE - Financial markets closed to mark national holiday.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21
ISTANBUL - Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association, or Tusiad, holds general assembly to elect new chairperson.
ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee meets.
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