Entries for the ‘Emerging Europe’ Category
Thu Mar 4, 2010 17:39 UTC |
Having just returned from my latest business trip to Dubai, I have to report that confidence in general remains very subdued. For sheer tragic parade-raining, bubble-bursting symbolism, you can’t beat the Burj Khalifa tower (renamed at the last minute to appease the neighbours and then closed soon after opening for ‘technical reasons’ – for three [Read more...]
Tags: Burj Khalifa, Dubai, Dubai World, Economy, Gulfood, population
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Equities, Financials, General, Middle East
Wed Mar 3, 2010 17:23 UTC |
With bad news out of Greece and other southern eurozone states casting a long shadow over much of Europe in recent months, finding relative value has become more difficult. Certainly, equities and currencies do not offer the same buying opportunities that they did during the Q209-Q309 rally.
However, a weak growth outlook on the back of [Read more...]
Tags: Czech Republic, Greece, interest rates, treasuries
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Financials, Inflation/Deflation
Thu Feb 25, 2010 15:45 UTC |
In an era where a global financial crisis has been caused not by developments in Russia, South-East Asia or Argentina, but by banking insolvency in the United States and sovereign default risks in a eurozone member state, namely Greece, our panel of senior commentators discusses what it means to be an ‘emerging market’. Justin Patrie, [Read more...]

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Tags: Asia, Brazil, China, developed markets, economic stability, Emerging Europe, emerging markets, Euro-zone, Europe, Eurozone, Greece, Investment Strategy, Latin America, Risk, risk perceptions, Russia, sovereign default, Turkey
Posted in: China, Emerging Europe, Eurozone, General, Latin America, Podcast
Mon Feb 22, 2010 16:51 UTC |
For all the doom and gloom surrounding European markets on the back of the Greek sovereign crisis and concomitant sell-off in euro and sterling, emerging market currencies in the region still look bid. Traditionally, when EUR/US$ has weakened, so too have benchmark central European cross rates such as PLN/EUR and CZK/EUR. However, this correlation has [Read more...]
Tags: CEE, Currencies, Czech koruna, Emerging Europe, euro, Greece, Polish zloty, Russian rouble
Posted in: Currencies, Emerging Europe, Eurozone, Financials, General, Inflation/Deflation, UK
Thu Feb 11, 2010 13:53 UTC |
On this week’s podcast, Business Monitor Chief Economist Tim Cooper, Head of Europe Analysis Justin Patrie and Senior Europe Analyst Bruce Jeffery discuss European investment strategy on the back of the Greek fiscal crisis and news of an EU support package for Athens. In addition to providing analysis on the most recent market developments in [Read more...]

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Tags: bail out, Default, EU, Eurozone, financial markets, Greece, sovereign
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Equities, Eurozone, Financials, General, Geopolitics, Inflation/Deflation, Podcast
Mon Feb 8, 2010 15:36 UTC |
Russia is currently in the midst of a political transition that has already seen or will soon see several veteran regional leaders retire. Until 2004, Russia’s regions had direct elections for presidents and governors, as is the case in the US. However, after the Beslan school siege in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, [Read more...]
Tags: Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Mintimer Shaimiyev, Mukhu Aliyev, Murtaza Rakhimov, power struggle, regional leaders, Russia, Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan
Posted in: Emerging Europe, General, Political Risk
Tue Feb 2, 2010 16:55 UTC |
We have previously highlighted on Risk Watchdog how the aftermath of the global financial crisis has exposed the structural imbalances in many developed economies, while also singling out those emerging markets which are in a fundamentally sound position to exploit the global economic recovery. Poland and Greece are certainly two prime examples at opposite ends [Read more...]
Tags: CDS, Default, ECB, Eurozone, fiscal, fiscal crisis, fiscal policy, Greece, Poland, sovereign debt, sovereign default
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Eurozone, Financials