Economy

According to the most recent data, real GDP growth in Russia sped up in the third quarter, posting a 4.8% annualised outturn, with relatively healthy labour market dynamics, the ongoing... 2011-11-22

According to the most recent data released by the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, the base refinancing rate was hiked to 40.0% as of November 11, up from 10.5% at the start... 2011-11-15

Inflation has been dropping steadily in Ukraine, declining from double digits of 12% to reach 4.2% in September, prompting us to cut our year-end forecast to 9%, down from 11.5% previously.... 2011-10-26

With liquidity conditions in the Russian banking system recently seizing up, the Bank of Russia sought to ease interbank liquidity tightness by lowering the repo rate by 25 basis points... 2011-10-26

GDP growth eased somewhat in Q211, coming in at a still-impressive 7.5% y-o-y, compared to 8.2% in the first quarter of the year. According to data from the national statistics office,... 2011-10-26

Latest data released by the State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan show that the volume of exports in the first nine months of 2011 fell by 6.4% compared to the same period a year... 2011-10-26

We have lowered our end-2011 consumer price inflation forecast to 3.0% from 8.0% previously, as headline inflation has started to decline rapidly in recent months. Our revised global... 2011-10-26

While record growth in Q311 has seen us raise our 2011 real GDP growth forecast to 15.8%, we have lowered our 2012 growth forecast amid growing prospects of a hard landing for the Chinese... 2011-10-25

Kazakhstan's consumer price inflation slowed to 8.0% y-o-y in October, down from 8.7% y-o-y in September, and this is the first reading in 2011 to be within the monetary authorities... 2011-10-18

Latest data from the Mongolian National Statistical Office show that despite impressive export growth, which came in at 61.1% year-on-year (y-o-y) in the first eight month of 2011,... 2011-09-27