Posts Tagged ‘Default’
Tue Jul 27, 2010 16:00 BST |
On this week’s businesss monitor podcast, we assess the state of the European banking sector on the back of the EU-wide stress test results released on July 23. BMI’s Head of Country Risk and Financial Markets Justin Patrie, along with Head of Europe Analysis Mark Schaltuper and Europe Analyst Chris Graham, dissect the methodology of [Read more...]

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Tags: banking sector, Cajas, Default, Europe, Germany, Greece, Landesbanken, liquidity, NPLs, Restructuring, sovereign debt, Spain, Stress Test
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Eurozone, Financials, Podcast
Wed Jul 14, 2010 16:10 BST |
China’s Dagong Global Credit Rating Co earlier this week released what it described as the first ever assessment of sovereign credit risks by a non-Western ratings agency. Dagong’s report covers 50 countries (20 in Europe, 17 in Asia, 2 in North American, 6 in South American, 3 in Africa, and 2 in Oceania) comprising 90% [Read more...]
Tags: alternative discourse, China, credit, Dagong, Debt, Default, Downgrade, fiscal deficit, ratings agencies, sovereign risks
Posted in: China, Emerging Europe, Eurozone, General, Latin America, Middle East, Political Risk, UK, US
Fri Jul 9, 2010 15:55 BST |
It is now over 9 months since Greece’s sovereign debt crisis brought the Eurozone’s stability to the forefront of investor concerns. With a trillion dollar bailout fund in place, and the recent bounce in the euro (some 5% against the US dollar), can we assume that the worst is now behind us. Justin Patrie, Head [Read more...]

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Tags: 2s-10s, banking sector, bond yields, bunds, Default, EU, euro, Eurozone, Germany, Greece, housing market, internal devaluation, solvency risks, sovereign debt, Spain
Posted in: Eurozone, Financials, General, Inflation/Deflation, Podcast
Thu Apr 22, 2010 16:05 BST |
The outlook for the eurozone is looking steadily worse. Key European economies have thus far failed to capitalise on the bounce in headline growth seen in the US and emerging markets. Concomitantly, a brewing sovereign crisis in Greece has highlighted serious problems of overleverage in Portugal, Spain and Italy. On this week’s podcast, Business Monitor [Read more...]

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Tags: crisis, Default, euro, Eurozone, Germany, Greece, growth, IMF, Italy, Podcast, Poland, Portugal, sovereign, Spain, Turkey, US
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Equities, Eurozone, Financials, General, Podcast
Wed Mar 24, 2010 17:27 GMT |
Rumours are still swirling on the subject of the Dubai World (DW) restructuring, and I am not yet convinced that the time to initiate a long-term bullish position on Dubai stocks has come, in spite of the recent rally. I have heard various theories on DW, and I am inclined to the optimistic side: the [Read more...]
Tags: Bahrain, Debt, Default, Dubai, Dubai World, Equities, GCC, Risk, Yield
Posted in: Equities, Middle East
Fri Feb 19, 2010 17:11 GMT |
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 GMT |
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