Economy
Azerbaijan
BMI View: Azerbaijan’s state budget recorded a surplus of 0.3% of GDP in 2012, with our forecast for this surplus to narrow marginally in 2013, to 0.2% of GDP as year-on-year...
2013-05-01Russia
BMI View: Consumer price inflation dropped from 7.3% y-o-y in February to 7.0% in March, in line with our view that inflation will fall over the next few months. The main reason for...
2013-05-01Russia
BMI View: We are revising down our 2013 real GDP forecast for Russia to 2.6% from 3.6% previously, on the back of signals that President Vladimir Putin is willing to let headline growth...
2013-05-01Georgia
BMI View: Georgian real GDP growth came in at 6.4% in 2012, below our previous forecast of 7.5%. This is largely due to an unexpectedly fast slowdown in the growth of gross fixed capital...
2013-05-01Turkmenistan
BMI View: We forecast Turkmen real GDP growth to slow to 10.5% in 2013, from an estimated 11.1% in 2012 as a result of our Commodities and Oil & Gas teams' view that global...
2013-05-01Mongolia
BMI View: Headline consumer price inflation (CPI) in Mongolia fell to 9.8% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March, the slowest pace recorded since August 2011. The deceleration in CPI - from...
2013-05-01Ukraine
Ukraine's international reserves arrived at US$24.8bn in March, below consensus expectations of US$25.0bn and representing no growth from the previous month. While the seasonal Q1 easing...
2013-05-01Uzbekistan
While real GDP growth came in at a robust 8.2% in 2012, we reiterate our view that Uzbekistan's economic growth will slow slightly in 2013, on the back of lower commodity prices and...
2013-04-30
