Economy

We have revised upward our forecast for official unemployment in Croatia to end 2012 at 18.8% and over the course of the year average 18.6% from our previous forecast for end-2012 of... 2011-12-23

Albania's relatively low level of trade and financial integration with Western Europe will not protect its economy from the marked deterioration that has occurred in eurozone macroeconomic... 2011-12-22

Having surged up to 4.0% y-o-y in September, consumer price inflation in Bosnia subsequently dipped to 3.7% y-o-y in October. With the global commodity prices cooling and economic activity... 2011-12-22

The Bank of Albania's November 30 interest rate cut, which takes the monetary authority's policy rate to 4.75%, came sooner than we had anticipated - we had forecast rates to remain... 2011-12-22

Data from the Ministry of Finance revealed on December 17 that public debt in Serbia totalled EUR14.5bn in November. This brings the total public debt load to 44.8% of GDP, just a... 2011-12-21

Romania's consumer price inflation slowed to 3.4% y-o-y in November, down from 3.5% y-o-y in October. In month-on-month terms price growth slowed to 0.4% in the same period, down from... 2011-12-20

We have revised Bulgaria's 2012 fiscal deficit forecast to 2.1% of GDP, from 1.9% previously. We expect the deficit to narrow from our 2011 budget deficit forecast of 2.3% as the government... 2011-12-20

Albania's relatively low level of trade and financial integration with Western Europe will not protect its economy from the marked deterioration that has occurred in eurozone macroeconomic... 2011-11-21

Slovenia's current account balance registered a surplus of EUR38.6mn in September, from a deficit of EUR90.1mn in August. This has brought the year-to-date current account balance... 2011-11-21

According to the most recent data released by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, growth in consumer loans has been falling only modestly as of late. Indeed, growth in aggregated... 2011-11-18