Analysis On Fixed Income, Fx & Equity Markets
Bulgaria
Our outlook for Western Balkan equities remains firmly negative despite Croatia's CROBEX, Serbia's BELEX15 and Bulgaria's SOFIX equity indices all having experienced short-term bounces...
2012-01-24Latvia
We expect moves by the Latvian central bank to shore up growth will have little real impact on forestalling a slowdown in economic growth in 2012. The Bank of Latvia's decision on Thursday...
2012-01-20Hungary
The major factors underlying our current market strategy across emerging European asset classes are perhaps, more than ever, policy driven. With the ongoing eurozone sovereign debt...
2012-01-19Hungary
We expect the Hungarian forint to outperform its emerging European peers in terms of total return performance against the euro in 2012. Conversely, we expect mounting headwinds to the...
2012-01-18Russia
Our core views for Russia's political risk and credit profile remain in place on the back of credit ratings agency Fitch's move to downgrade the outlook on the country's BBB credit...
2012-01-17Czech Republic
On the back of a wave of eurozone credit rating downgrades by ratings agency Standard & Poor's we maintain our largely bearish view on Central European equity markets and expect...
2012-01-16Belarus
Beset by hyperinflation, Belarus remains in need of tighter domestic policy to help avert second-round inflationary pressures and a further sell-off in the currency. However, while...
2012-01-11Romania
The National Bank of Romania (NBR)'s decision to cut its policy rate by 25 basis points (bp), to 5.75%, on January 2, is in line with our end-2012 benchmark policy rate forecast of...
2012-01-10
