Posts Tagged ‘Default’
Fri Feb 19, 2010 17:11 UTC |
The fixed income investment community has been shaken up by growing concerns over Greece’s creditworthiness, which appear to be spreading like a bush fire across eurozone peripheral states. While concerns over significant sovereign credit risk are currently limited to the euro area and Dubai, my colleagues at BMI believe that Latin American government credit, too, [Read more...]
Tags: Argentina, CDS, Creditworthiness, Current Account, Default, Government Debt, Greece, IMF, Jamaica, Nicaragua, sovereign debt, sovereign risk ratings, Venezuela
Posted in: Eurozone, General, Latin America, Political Risk
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
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
Fri Dec 11, 2009 15:36 UTC |
Sovereign risk roared back on to the agenda this week after Fitch Ratings agency downgraded Greece’s sovereign issuer default rating to ‘BBB+’ on December 9. We discuss the tactical market implications for the eurozone and the strategic risks posed by further downgrades in the region going forward.

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Tags: Default, deficit, Downgrade, emerging markets, Eurozone, fiscal, Fitch, Government Debt, Greece, Ratings, sovereign
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Eurozone, Financials, General, Podcast, Political Risk
Thu Dec 10, 2009 18:42 UTC |
One of the things that has been troubling me more and more lately is Japan’s colossal debt burden, which is heading towards 200% of GDP. At the moment, the debt burden is existing in an equilibrium of sorts, with Japanese financial institutions seemingly content to keep buying Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs). In a climate of [Read more...]
Tags: Bonds, budget deficit, Debt, Default, expenditure, Japan, JGBs, revenue
Posted in: Asia, General, Inflation/Deflation
Fri Dec 4, 2009 15:09 UTC |
With the international investment community shaken by suggestions of a potential Dubai World default, this week we turn our attention to the troubled Kazakh banking sector. Bruce Jeffery, Business Monitor’s Kazakhstan analyst, provides some insight into the industry and shares his views on the key themes, which will likely dominate next year.

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Tags: Alliance Bank, banking sector, BTA, Debt Restructuring, Default, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Financials, General, Podcast
Fri Nov 27, 2009 15:54 UTC |
Suggestions of a technical default on November 26 by UAE-based Dubai World have sent shockwaves through the financial world. Not only are creditworthiness concerns reaching boiling point, but global equity markets, too, seem to initially have gone into panic mode. Business Monitor’s Liz Martins and Terry Alexander discuss the implications of a debt default by [Read more...]

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Tags: Abu Dhabi, Default, developed markets, Dubai, Dubai World, GCC, global equities, Gulf, Investor Sentiment, Islamic Finance, Market Rally, Nakheel, Property, sukuk, Technical Default
Posted in: Currencies, Equities, Financials, General, Middle East, Podcast