Posts Tagged ‘gdp growth’

Three Reasons I’m VERY Concerned About Russia

Tue Feb 10, 2009 16:57 GMT  | 1 Comment

Readers of Risk Watchdog will know of my long-held bearish outlook on Russia and I thought I’d take the opportunity to reassert my position seeing as Business Monitor International just revised down its 2009 Russian economic growth forecast to -4.0% (yes, that’s a minus sign). Without going into a 1,500 word expose on all things… [Read more]

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Posted in: Emerging Europe, Financials, General 1 Comment

Thank You, World (And Washington)

Thu Aug 28, 2008 16:07 GMT  | 4 Comments

The revised preliminary US GDP figure for Q2, released today, was something of a stunner: 3.3% annualised growth, compared with the initial 1.9% estimate. And when put alongside the eurozone’s dismal 0.2% contraction over the same period, at first glance, a transatlantic reversal of fortune appears to be in play. But not all is as… [Read more]

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Posted in: Eurozone, General, US 4 Comments

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