Analysis On Fixed Income, Fx & Equity Markets

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... 2012-01-24

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... 2012-01-20

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... 2012-01-19

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... 2012-01-18

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... 2012-01-17

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... 2012-01-16

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... 2012-01-11

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

Emerging European equities are off to a tough start in the New Year, as investor risk aversion remains prevalent. We believe that overarching concerns over the state of the global economy... 2012-01-06

The Croatian National Bank (HNB) seems to be bracing itself for a banking sector credit crunch, in line with our view. After having raised reserve requirements in October to 14.0% from... 2011-11-29