BMI Sovereign Ratings

Sovereigns in the Emerging Europe region are facing their greatest macroeconomic and financing challenges in over a decade. The risks to stability we highlighted in our last two Emerging... 2008-10-31

The macroeconomic challenges we highlighted in our last quarterly Emerging Europe sovereign risk ratings update have escalated further in the second quarter, with little sign of easing... 2008-07-17

BMI View: Long term, we believe that the external debt fundamentals of emerging Europe will continue to improve. Growth rates, although declining from 2007's highs, will be fair,... 2007-12-10

In our last quarterly sovereign risk appraisal in December, we titled the report 'As Good As It Gets?' and we feel that the events of Q107 have borne out this view. Our view throughout... 2007-03-16

Across our CEE sovereign risk universe one thing is for certain: it is going to be another year of very strong growth in the region. The only notable exception to the 4%+ growth rates... 2006-12-14

The key finding of our September BMI Sovereign Risk Ratings survey for Emerging Europe is that there has been a marginal deterioration in credit quality in emerging Europe over 2006.... 2006-09-19

In the Emerging Europe ratings universe, our two top rated sovereigns offer a series of interesting contrasts. Both are rated in the B category, Russia at B+4 (composite total: 77)... 2006-06-02

The key theme of the first EMEA sovereign risk rating is the strong ratings accorded to countries which have restructured their foreign debt in recent years. Leading the pack is Russia,... 2006-03-10