Latvia
Economy
BMI View: A better external environment has improved emerging Europe's sovereign outlook for 2013, but we see greater potential for relative value plays in regional credit default swap...
2013-01-31Economy
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...
2012-01-20Economy
Sovereign risk in emerging Europe has improved marginally since our last Sovereign Risk Rating update in March. The mean Sovereign Risk Rating (SRR) score for the 17 rated countries...
2011-06-17Economy
The rebound in Emerging Europe's sovereign risk rating continues to lose its momentum as a challenging external economic climate and major fiscal shortfalls keep 'ability to pay' scores...
2010-09-30Economy
Emerging Europe's Sovereign Risk Ratings saw only a modest uptick this quarter, as growing concerns surrounding a possible slowdown in H210 and 2011 weigh on the region's aggregate...
2010-05-27Economy
Since the beginning of March, our European market views have played out well. Long-end treasury yields have fallen in line with declining interest rate expectations, yield curves...
2010-03-17Economy
Baltic credit default swap (CDS) markets have surged through the latter half of September, with the Latvian 5-year CDS leading the way. We highlighted the break of resistance at...
2009-10-01Economy
Key Latvian financial market indicators have deteriorated significantly since June 2 with the benchmark 5-year CDS spread rising by 65bps in two days (to trade at 675bps) while interbank...
2009-06-04




