Central Europe & Baltic States
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Czech Republic / Economy
Czech industrial output rose 5.4% y-o-y in November, compared with a 1.7% increase in October, according to figures revealed by the statistical office. The growth was largely unexpected by analysts. The value of new orders increased by 4.0% y-o-y, while domestic new orders declined by 6.8% with non-domestic orders growing 10.6%. Seasonally adjusted industrial production expanded...
2012-01-30Czech Republic / Economy
he centre-right coalition government has come together and tentatively approved a proposal from Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek, also the leader of the coalition party Top 09, to...
2012-01-30Lithuania / Economy
High levels of unemployment have prevented a meaningful recovery in our short-term political risk ratings for Lithuania. Indeed, although unemployment reportedly fell to 14.8% in Q311,...
2012-01-30Country Risk Rating
Czech Republic
he centre-right coalition government has come together and tentatively approved a proposal from Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek, also the leader of the coalition party Top 09, to...
2012-01-30Lithuania
High levels of unemployment have prevented a meaningful recovery in our short-term political risk ratings for Lithuania. Indeed, although unemployment reportedly fell to 14.8% in Q311,...
2012-01-30Hungary
Hungary's capital Budapest was rocked by protests once again on January 21, except unlike those in early January against changes to the country's constitution, these were in support...
2012-01-26Latvia
Agencies within the Latvian government are deeming the coalition's decision to support EU sanctions against Belarus as short-sighted. The Employment Confederation of Latvia in particular...
2012-01-26Czech Republic
Czech industrial output rose 5.4% y-o-y in November, compared with a 1.7% increase in October, according to figures revealed by the statistical office. The growth was largely unexpected...
2012-01-30Lithuania
Despite overshooting our 2011 estimate of 4.9% real GDP growth - with the economy expanding by 5.8% last year - we believe that the sharp slowdown in economic activity in Q411 highlights...
2012-01-30Lithuania
Growth in exports throughout the majority of 2011 was almost evenly matched by growth in imports, which has seen a continued widening of Lithuania's trade in goods gap to EUR1.45bn...
2012-01-30Hungary
The most recent economic data released by the Hungarian central bank showed a slight narrowing of the current account surplus in the third quarter of 2011, to EUR380.6mn, down from...
2012-01-26Latvia
We do not expect proposed changes to the Latvian constitution which would make Russian an official second language to pass either a parliamentary vote or the national referendum. It...
2011-12-20Estonia
We expect tensions in the Baltic region to remain elevated in 2012 against the backdrop of an increasingly assertive Russian state. However, while we do not expect outright Russian...
2011-12-15Czech Republic
We hold to our view that ructions within the Czech Republic's centre-right coalition will continue to challenge the government's cohesion. However, as a result of the common goal of...
2011-09-12Slovakia
We hold to our view that Slovakia is unlikely to block either an expansion of the EFSF or the ESM on its own, but expect this issue to test the cohesion of the centre-right coalition...
2011-08-08
