Romania Schedule of Events - Oct 5 - Dec 4

* Monday, October 5 - Bucharest: Trade unions in the public sector, including policemen, medical doctors, teachers and civil servants, hold a general strike.

* Monday, October 5 - Bucharest: Romanian President Traian Basescu attends the Romanian Economic Forum.

Monday, October 5 - Bucharest: Romania's Finance Ministry to auction 1.1 billion lei in six-month T-bills.

Monday, October 5 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release August average net salary data. (0700 GMT)

Tuesday, October 6 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release August energy output data. (0700 GMT)

Tuesday, October 6 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release August industrial sales data. (0700 GMT)

* Wednesday, October 7 - Bucharest: Romanian trade unions to stage a protest rally.

Wednesday, October 7 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release August retail sales data. (0700 GMT)

Wednesday, October 7 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release industrial output data for August. (0700 GMT)

Wednesday, October 7 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release August construction works figures. (0700 GMT)

* Thursday, October 8 - Bucharest: Finance and Business magazine organises a seminar 'The economic crises – a predictable end?'

Thursday, October 8 - Bucharest: Romania's Finance Ministry to auction 950 million lei in five-year T-notes.

Saturday, October 10 - Bucharest: Romanian and Hungarian governments to hold a joint meeting with focus on joint projects stemming from the two countries' EU and NATO membership.

Monday, October 12 - Bucharest: Romania's Finance Ministry to auction 1.0 billion lei in six-month T-bills.

Monday, October 12 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release September consumer price index data. (0700 GMT)

Monday, October 12 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release foreign trade balance data for August. (0700 GMT)

Wednesday, October 15 – Bucharest: Romanian plastics maker Prodplast holds a shareholders' meeting.

Monday, October 19 - Bucharest: Romania's Finance Ministry to auction 1.0 billion lei in one-year T-bills.

Monday, October 19 - Bucharest: Global Forum, a telecommunications and information technology conference, to take place (through October 20).

Tuesday, October 20 - Bucharest: Romanian oil and gas group Petrom holds an extraordinary shareholders' meeting.

Thursday, October 22 - Bucharest: Romania's Finance Ministry to auction 950 million lei in three-year T-notes.

Friday, October 23 - Bucharest: The Romanian central bank is expected to release September money supply data.

Monday, October 26 - Bucharest: Romania's Finance Ministry to auction 1.0 billion lei in one-year T-bills.

Tuesday, October 27 - Bucharest: Romanian aircraft maker Aerostar to release its third-quarter financial results.

Wednesday, October 28 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release data on building permits issued in September. (0700 GMT)

Wednesday, October 28 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release business sentiment data for the three months to December. (0700 GMT)

Monday, November 2 - Bucharest: Central bank is expected to release October foreign exchange reserves data.

Monday, November 2 - Bucharest: Romanian blue-chip bank BRD, majority-owned by French banking group Societe Generale, to release nine-month financial results.

* Tuesday, November 3 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release September producer price index. (0700 GMT)

Tuesday, November 3 - Bucharest: Romania's central bank board holds monetary policy meeting.

* Wednesday, November 4 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release September tourist numbers. (0700 GMT)

Thursday, November 12 - Bucharest: The 12th CEI Summit Economic Forum takes place.

Sunday, November 22 - Bucharest: Romania to hold presidential elections.

Friday, December 4 - Bucharest: The National Statistics Institute to release data on investments in Romania's economy in the third quarter. (0700 GMT)