Moody's: Australian infrastructure sector broadly resilient to softening macro-environment

Dec 07, 2015 01:14 am UTC| Research & Analysis Economy

Moodys Investors Service says that most of the Australian infrastructure issuers it rates are more resilient to the softening macro-environment than general corporate issuers, supporting its stable outlook for the sector,...

Mexico's inflation and industrial production data on sight

Dec 07, 2015 00:50 am UTC| Commentary Economy

MXN is expected to weaken further this week as the USD gains ground after the NFP and EUR squeezing higher. This week looks relatively quiet as we only get the inflation print for November on Wednesday and Industrial...

Russia's inflation begins its descent

Dec 04, 2015 18:08 pm UTC| Commentary Economy

Russia inflation decelerated to 15.0% y/y in November, from 15.6% y/y the previous month. This was slightly less than the forecast and the consensus. While inflation has declined, the monthly level at 0.8% m/m is still...

Finnish economy still struggling

Dec 04, 2015 17:54 pm UTC| Commentary Economy

Finlands third-quarter GDP decreased by 0.5% from the previous quarter, according to Statistics Finlands preliminary estimate. Compared with the third quarter of 2014, GDP adjusted for working days contracted by 0.2%....

What Africa can learn from China's special economic zones

Dec 04, 2015 11:31 am UTC| Research & Analysis Economy

China and its African partners want to scale up industrialisation on the continent in addition to Chinas infrastructure development projects - the Three Major Network of railway, road and regional aviation. Chinas own...

Review of decoupling of oil and inflation expectations in Euro area

Dec 04, 2015 10:50 am UTC| Commentary Economy

European Central Banks (ECB) president Mario Draghi, at yesterdays conference cited one of the key argument that stand out against providing larger stimulus has been arguments of hawks that lower oil price has been behind...

Weak exports remain a source of worry in South Korea

Dec 04, 2015 01:43 am UTC| Commentary Economy

GDP growth has been revised to 5.3% (QoQ saar) for 3Q, compared to 5.0% in the preliminary figures. The upward revision mainly came from domestic demand, including both private consumption (5.0% vs. 4.7%) and investment...