Kazakhstan

Just after midnight on November 10, ratings agency Fitch downgraded its sovereign ratings for Bulgaria ('BBB-'), Hungary ('BBB'), Kazakhstan ('BBB-') and Romania ('BB+'), while... 2008-11-10

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

On a technical basis the Kazakh tenge is still looking good. The unit has broken though resistance at KZT120.90/US$, with the next key level coming in at KZT119.80/US$. While this... 2007-10-12

Since mid-May the tenge has broken through its short-term appreciating trend channel, stopping just short of

In line with our year-end target of KZT118.00/US$, lower unemployment figures, a widening trade surplus and rising commodity exports in Q1 2007, have underpinned tenge strength against... 2007-04-16

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

When most investors are appraising the prospects of an investment, profit warnings, high volatility, negative sentiment and analyst neglect are not on their list of criteria. However,... 2007-02-23

We continue to forecast exchange rate stability for the East Caribbean (EC) dollar, as there are few major external threats to the currency's 30-year-old peg to the US

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