Slovakia

On the back of the EUR20bn IMF-led bail-out package for Hungary, announced on October 28, the European Union has significantly stepped up its level of support for member-states... 2008-10-29

The National Bank of Slovakia (NBS) kept its benchmark 2-week repo rate at 4.25% for the 15th consecutive month on July 29. This was despite an acceleration in inflation (as measured... 2008-07-29

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

The Slovak economy is expected to continue outperforming its central European neighbours in 2008, with real GDP growth forecast to come in at 7.3%. We retain our core view that an... 2008-06-18

With fixed income markets increasingly pricing in a 25bps hike in the European Central Bank 's (ECB) refinancing rate, German treasury yields have soared. The benchmark 5-year bobl... 2008-06-10

The Czech koruna has bounced off the support level at CZK25.10/EUR we highlighted on May 28 (see Watch Trendline Support for Short-Term Direction in our online service) and is now... 2008-06-06

Our short-term positive view on central European external debt has played out with Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak benchmark 5-year credit default swap (CDS) spreads all narrowing... 2008-06-05