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Reuters: [2008-05-26 13:15:00]
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DATE GMT/LOCAL INDICATOR PERIOD F/CAST PREVIOUS
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MAY26 1330/1030 BR current account Apr -$4.4 bln
MAY26 1900/1600 AR trade balance Apr $801 mln
MAY28 1200/0900 BR mid-month inflation May 0.59 pct
MAY28 1330/1030 BR budget surplus (reais) Apr 15.4 bln
MAY29 1100/0800 BR IGP-M inflation May 0.69 pct
MAY29 1300/0900 CL Unemployment Apr 7.6 pct
MAY29 1300/0900 CL Industrial production Apr -1.0 pct
MAY29 1300/0900 CL Copper production Apr -8.4 pct
MAY29 1930/1430 MX economic activ (IGAE) Mar 3.15 pct 5.8 pct
MAY30 1930/1430 MX fiscal balance (pesos) Apr 50.7 bln
JUN 3 1200/0900 BR industrial output Apr 0.40 pct
JUN 4 1000/0700 BR FIPE inflation index May 0.54 pct
JUN 4 2200/1900 BR Selic interest rate Jun 11.75 pct
JUN 4 1930/1430 MX consumer confidence May 97.8 pct
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EVENTS
TUESDAY, MAY 27
MEXICO CITY - Central bank announces results of weekly T-bill
auction 1130 (1630 GMT)
FRIDAY, MAY 30
MEXICO CITY - Mexico releases March metals production data 1430
(1930 GMT)
TUESDAY, JUNE 3
BRASILIA - The central bank's monetary policy committee, or
Copom, begins two-day meeting on interest rates.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4
BRASILIA - The central bank's monetary policy committee, or
Copom, announces decision on interest rates after the market
closes.
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DIARY - Major Emerging Market Central Bank Events 2008
Reuters: [2008-05-26 11:11:00]
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DIARY - Political and General news [POL/DIARY]
DIARY - Index of all Diaries [IND/DIARY]
DIARY - G7 Economic Indicators <ECON>
Please find below a list of dates of interest rate and other
major announcements in 2008 from emerging markets central banks
around the world.
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LATIN AMERICA
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Brazil
Jun 3-4 - Central bank interest rate meeting.
Jul 22-23 - Central bank interest rate meeting.
Sep 9-10 - Central bank interest rate meeting.
Oct 28-29 - Central bank interest rate meeting.
Dec 9-10 - Central bank interest rate meeting.
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Mexico
Jun 20 - Central Bank of Mexico - MPC
Jul 18 - Central Bank of Mexico - MPC
Aug 15 - Central Bank of Mexico - MPC
Sep 19 - Central Bank of Mexico - MPC
Oct 17 - Central Bank of Mexico - MPC
Nov 28 - Central Bank of Mexico - MPC
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EUROPE
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Czech Republic
Jun 26 - Central bank board monetary policy meeting.
Aug 7 - Central bank board monetary policy meeting.
Sep 25 - Central bank board monetary policy meeting.
Nov 6 - Central bank board monetary policy meeting.
Dec 17 - Central bank board monetary policy meeting.
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Slovakia
May 27 - Central bank's policy-making board meeting.
Jun 24 - Central bank's policy-making board meeting.
Jul 29 - Central bank's policy-making board meeting.
Aug 26 - Central bank's policy-making board meeting.
Sep 30 - Central bank's policy-making board meeting.
Oct 28 - Central bank's policy-making board meeting.
Nov 25 - Central bank's policy-making board meeting.
Dec 30 - Central bank's policy-making board meeting.
The Slovak central bank's (NBS) monetary policy making Bank
Board usually holds a policy meeting on the last Tuesday of
every month. The board may change the date of its policy
meetings.
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Hungary
May 26 - Monetary Council meeting on interest rates.
Jun 23 - Monetary Council meeting on interest rates.
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Poland
May 27-28 - Two-day Monetary Policy Council meeting, with
interest rate decision to be announced on final day.
Jun 24-25 - Two-day Monetary Policy Council meeting, with
interest rate decision to be announced on final day.
Jul 29-30 - Two-day Monetary Policy Council meeting, with
interest rate decision to be announced on final day.
Aug 26-27 - Two-day Monetary Policy Council meeting, with
interest rate decision to be announced on final day.
Sep 23-24 - Two-day Monetary Policy Council meeting, with
interest rate decision to be announced on final day.
Oct 28-29 - Two-day Monetary Policy Council meeting, with
interest rate decision to be announced on final day.
Nov 25-26 - Two-day Monetary Policy Council meeting, with
interest rate decision to be announced on final day.
Dec 22-23 - Two-day Monetary Policy Council meeting, with
interest rate decision to be announced on final day.
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Turkey
Jun 16 - MPC monthly interest rate-setting meeting
Jul 17 - MPC monthly interest rate-setting meeting
Aug 14 - MPC monthly interest rate-setting meeting
Sep 18 - MPC monthly interest rate-setting meeting
Oct 22 - MPC monthly interest rate-setting meeting
Nov 19 - MPC monthly interest rate-setting meeting
Dec 18 - MPC monthly interest rate-setting meeting
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Latvia
Jul 17 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Sep 11 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Nov 13 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
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Serbia
May 29 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Jun 12 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Jun 30 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Jul 17 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Jul 31 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Aug 14 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Aug 28 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Sep 16 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Sep 30 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Oct 16 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Oct 30 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Nov 14 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Nov 28 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Dec 16 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
Dec 30 - Monetary Policy Council meeting.
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ROMANIA
Jun 26 - Board Meeting on interest rates.
Jul 31 - Board Meeting on interest rates.
Sep 25 - Board Meeting on interest rates.
Oct 30 - Board Meeting on interest rates.
2009
Jan 6 - Board Meeting on interest rates.
Feb 4 - Board Meeting on interest rates.
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MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
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Israel
May 26 - Monetary Policy meeting - announcement effective
from May 29.
Jun 23 - Monetary Policy meeting - announcement effective
from June 26.
Jul 28 - Monetary Policy meeting - announcement effective
from July 31.
Aug 25 - Monetary Policy meeting - announcement effective
from Aug 28.
Sep 22 - Monetary Policy meeting - announcement effective
from Sep 25.
Oct 27 - Monetary Policy meeting - announcement effective
from Oct. 30.
Nov 24 - Monetary Policy meeting - announcement effective
from Nov 27.
Dec 29 - Monetary Policy meeting - announcement effective
from Jan. 1, 2009
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South Africa
Jun 11/12 Two-day monetary policy meeting, with results of
the meeting to be announced on final day.
Aug 13/14 Two-day monetary policy meeting, with results of
the meeting to be announced on final day.
Oct 8-9 Two-day monetary policy meeting, with results of
the meeting to be announced on final day.
Dec 10/11 Two-day monetary policy meeting, with results of
the meeting to be announced on final day.
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Nigeria
Jun 3 - Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.
Aug 5 - Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.
Oct 7 - Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.
Dec 2 - Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.
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Egypt
Jun 26-27 - Central bank's monetary policy committee meets
Aug 7-8 - Central bank's monetary policy committee meets
Sep 18-19 - Central bank's monetary policy committee meets
Nov 6-7 - Central bank's monetary policy committee meets
Dec 25-26 - Central bank's monetary policy committee meets
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ASIA
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India
Jul 29 - Reserve Bank of India (RBI) First Quarter Monetary
Policy Review.
Oct 24 - Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Mid-term Monetary
Policy Review.
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Philippines
Jun 5 - Central Bank of the Philippines - Monetary Board
meeting on monetary policy.
Jul 17 - Central Bank of the Philippines - Monetary Board
meeting on monetary policy.
Aug 28 - Central Bank of the Philippines - Monetary Board
meeting on monetary policy.
Oct 9 - Central Bank of the Philippines - Monetary Board
meeting on monetary policy.
Nov 20 - Central Bank of the Philippines - Monetary Board
meeting on monetary policy.
Dec 18 - Central Bank of the Philippines - Monetary Board
meeting on monetary policy.
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South Korea
Jun 12 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Jul 10 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Aug 7 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Sep 11 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Oct 9 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Nov 7 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Dec 11 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
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Taiwan
The Taiwan central bank holds its quarterly board meeting to
determine interest rates in the last week of each quarter.
The date is announced a few days beforehand.
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Thailand
Jul 16 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Aug 27 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Oct 8 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Dec 3 - Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
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Malaysia
May 26 - Monetary policy statement.
Jul 25 - Monetary policy statement.
Oct 24 - Monetary policy statement.
Nov 24 - Monetary policy statement.
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INDONESIA
Jun 5 - Board of Governors meeting.
Jul 3 - Board of Governors meeting.
Aug 5 - Board of Governors meeting.
Sep 4 - Board of Governors meeting.
Oct 8 - Board of Governors meeting.
Nov 6 - Board of Governors meeting.
Dec 4 - Board of Governors meeting.
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UPDATE 2-Mexico lifts import tariffs on staple foods
Reuters: [2008-05-25 22:23:00]
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By Adriana Barrera
MEXICO CITY, May 25 (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Sunday he would eliminate import tariffs on corn, rice, wheat, sorghum and other products to prevent shortages amid pressure in global food markets.
Calderon also announced a tariff-free import quota for beans and said he would seek agreements with the food industry to avoid sharp price rises in basic products.
Tariffs and quotas in farm trade between Mexico, the United States and Canada were eliminated at the start of 2008 under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, but the new measures would cheapen farm imports from elsewhere.
"We want to be able to bring these basic products to Mexico from any part of the world at the best price for Mexican consumers," Calderon said after announcing the measures. "For my government, food security is an issue for the state."
He did not say when the tariffs would be lifted nor whether the measures would be temporary or permanent.
Mexico, like many countries, has felt steep price rises in basic foods in recent months due to rising demand from fast-developing nations like China and India, soaring oil prices and the diversion of grain to make biofuels.
A jump in tortilla prices sparked street protests last year, and price hikes this year in rice, tortillas and chicken have driven Mexican inflation at its fastest clip in more than three years.
Corn, used in tortillas, and rice are staples in Mexico.
Mexico is the world's No. 4 corn producer, but still imports about half of what it consumes. It grows mostly white corn and imports mainly yellow corn from the United States for animal feed.
It has relatively low corn import tariffs with various countries it has trade agreements with, but for other suppliers the tariff stands at 194 percent for corn, up to 125 percent for beans, 67 percent for wheat and 20 percent for rice.
Mexico imports most of its rice from the United States, but earlier this month the government opened a tariff-free 250,000 tonne rice import quota to open the door to other producers.
Calderon, who has pledged to both protect poor families from higher food costs and support the country's farmers, also announced measures to facilitate more fertilizer imports. (Editing by Leslie Gevirtz) ((catherine.bremer@thomsonreuters.com; +52 55 5282 7147; Reuters Messaging: catherine.bremer.reuters.com@reuters.net)) Keywords: MEXICO FOOD/
RPT-UPDATE 1-Mexico lifts import tariffs on staple foods
Reuters: [2008-05-25 19:52:00]
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MEXICO CITY, May 25 (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Sunday he would eliminate import tariffs on corn, rice, wheat, sorghum and other products to prevent shortages amid pressure in global food markets.
Calderon also announced an import quota for beans and said he would seek agreements with the food industry to avoid sharp price rises in basic products.
"We want to be able to bring these basic products to Mexico from any part of the world at the best price for Mexican consumers," Calderon said after announcing the measures.
Mexico, like many countries, has felt steep price rises in basic foods in recent months due to rising demand from fast-developing nations like China and India, soaring oil prices and the diversion of grain to make biofuels.
Corn, used in tortillas, and rice are staples in Mexico.
A jump in tortilla prices sparked street protests last year, and price hikes this year in rice, tortillas and chicken have driven Mexican inflation at its fastest clip in more than three years.
Calderon, who has pledged to both protect poor families from higher food costs and support the country's farmers, also announced measures to facilitate more fertilizer imports. (Reporting by Adriana Barrera, editing by Leslie Gevirtz) ((catherine.bremer@thomsonreuters.com; +52 55 5282 7147; Reuters Messaging: catherine.bremer.reuters.com@reuters.net)) Keywords: MEXICO FOOD/
Shark attack kills Mexican surfer on Pacific beach
Reuters: [2008-05-24 20:44:00]
By Gerardo Torres
ACAPULCO, Mexico, May 24 (Reuters) - A shark killed a 21-year-old surfer off a Mexican Pacific coast beach, police said on Saturday, the second fatal shark attack in the area in less than a month.
Mexican Osvaldo Mata, a student at a nearby university, was surfing with friends near the resort town of Zihuatanejo on Friday when a shark grabbed him, bit off one of his hands and took two bites out of his thigh, a police spokeswoman said.
His friends paddled him back to shore, a few yards (meters) away, but he lost consciousness and died before medics arrived.
"Two witnesses, his friends who were swimming with him, told us they saw a 2-meter (6-foot) shark attack him and pull him underwater," a police spokeswoman for the state of Guerrero said.
The attack, at a beach called Pantla around 12 miles (20 km) from Zihuatanejo, happened less than a month after American tourist Adrian Ruiz, 24, died from a shark bite while surfing at Troncones beach, a few miles away.
Zihuatanejo's civil protection director, Jaime Vazquez, said surfers at Pantla beach saw fins in the sea shortly before the attack, which he said broke Mata's femur and left a 12-inch (30-cm) wound in his thigh, causing him to bleed to death.
Pantla and Troncones beaches are around 150 miles (240 km) from Acapulco, Mexico's best-known Pacific resort and a magnet for some 6 million Mexican and foreign tourists each year.
The attacks have alarmed residents of coastal resorts in Mexico, where fatal shark attacks are rare. The last shark death in Mexico was in the Caribbean in 1997, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File.
No one had been killed by a shark on Mexico's Pacific coast in over 30 years, according to the museum's records. (Additional reporting by Catherine Bremer and Adriana Barrera; Writing by Catherine Bremer; Editing by Eric Beech) ((catherine.bremer@thomsonreuters.com; +52 55 5282 7147; Reuters Messaging: catherine.bremer.reuters.com@reuters.net)) Keywords: MEXICO SHARK/
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