South Africa's SARB's vigilance on repo rate ensures inflation contained over long term
Dec 04, 2015 06:30 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
SARB monetary policy indicates that consumer inflation is not expected to make any sustainable changes to the reserve boards 3-6% target band, real interest rates will likely climb up to 2.0%. The BER will publish its...
South Korean economy better despite slowing China and MERS
Dec 03, 2015 09:03 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks
GDP figure for third quarter, released by Bank of Korea (BOK) showed that economy didmuch better in the third quarter than originally anticipated. Korean economy faced heavy headwinds from slowdown in exports to China and...
Brazil's Indstrial Production continues its sharp deceleration
Dec 03, 2015 08:39 am UTC| Commentary Economy
Brazils IP dropped by 9.5% in third quarter. The industrial production for October month on month basis is expected by the market consensus to decline by -0.1%, while year on year basis is expected at -10.4%. Recent...
Emerging Europe Manufacturing PMI: Turkey and Hungary confidence improves
Dec 01, 2015 21:47 pm UTC| Commentary Economy
Emerging Europe weighted average manufacturing PMI improved for the third consecutive month in November to 51.0 from 50.7. Thus, in Q4 PMI is running more than one point higher than the Q3 average, led by Hungary, Russia,...
Brazilian economy – ugly shrinking surprise
Dec 01, 2015 12:28 pm UTC| Commentary
Bad days are just not over for Brazilian economy as it shrinks from crisis to crisis. High corporate debt of the country, couples with lower commodity prices led to a currency and inflation crisis. Brazilian Real is down...
Emerging market crisis series - Weakness to persist in 2016
Nov 26, 2015 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views
According to latest European Central Banks (ECB) forecast in financial stability report, emerging market slowdown is likely to persist next year. BTGs incident from Brazil is a nice example, where the Banks CEO has been...
Slow down in momentum across Emerging Markets tempering global growth outook
Nov 16, 2015 10:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
Emerging market composite Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) contracted in four of the last five months, following almost two consecutive years of expansion. With Russia and Brazil in recession and China poised to deliver its...
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