Latvia

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

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... 2011-06-17

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... 2010-09-30

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... 2010-05-27

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... 2010-03-17

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... 2009-10-01

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