Bulgaria Schedule of Events - Nov 18 - Dec 19

* Tuesday, November 18 – Sofia: Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin meets Estonian counterpart Urmas Paet.

* Tuesday, November 18 – Sofia: Bulgarian Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski and World Bank Director for Central European and Baltic Countries, Orsalia Kalantzoupolos, sign two loan agreements. (0900 GMT)

* Tuesday, November 18 – Sofia: Sofia-based think-tank Industry Watch to present a report on the wealth of Bulgarian households in the third quarter of 2008. (1100 GMT)

Tuesday, November 18 – Sofia: Bulgaria’s Economic and Investment Bank (EIBank) holds extraordinary shareholders meeting. (1400 GMT).

* Tuesday, November 18 – Sofia: Blue-chip car battery manufacturer MonBat starts buyback of up to 0.57% of its equity capital.

Wednesday, November 19 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release forecast for investments in manufacturing for 2009, compared to 2008.

Thursday, November 20 – Sofia: Drug maker Sopharma holds a shareholders' meeting (0900 GMT)

Friday, November 21 – Sofia: Central bank expected to release weekly foreign exchange reserves data.

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Bulgaria’s central bank to issue end-September gross foreign debt data (1100 GMT).

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Financial and industrial group Eurohold Bulgaria to release consolidated financial results for the third quarter.

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Blue-chip car battery manufacturer MonBat to issue revenue and profit forecast for the last quarter of 2008.

Thursday, November 27 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release business sentiment data.

Friday, November 28 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release October producer price data.

Friday, November 28 - Sofia: Deadline by which the Finance Ministry is to release October budget balance data expires.

* Friday, December 19 - Sofia: Bulgarian road construction group Holding Roads holds an extraordinary general shareholders' meeting to vote on paying a bonus of 3.84 million levs ($2.5 million/2.0 million euro) to its supervisory board chairman Vassil Bozhkov.