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...

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...
Australia's real sales in line with long-term trend, low inflation weighs on retail turnover
Dec 03, 2015 08:49 am UTC| Commentary Economy
Australias retail sales are expected by market consensus to be 0.4% month on month on a seasonally adjusted basis, being unchanged from that of its previous month. Retail sales in October stood at 3.7 yoy. If there...