Expert economic research and news

Czech Republic

Czech Republic - Resilient to old risks, vulnerable to new

7 Feb 2012 | Anders Svendsen

The Czech economy has been seen as the safe haven or the Switzerland of Central and Eastern Europe. However it is very vulnerable to new risks!

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Oil Market monthly - January 2012

1 Feb 2012 | Thina Margrethe Saltvedt

We expect oil prices will trade around the current level at USD 110/barrel if the verbal war between the West and Iran continues.

EuropeanUnion

EU summit is mostly work in progress

31 Jan 2012 | Anders Matzen

Three topics are worth mentioning about the EU summit Monday

Paper

Deal announcement - UPM EUR 130 million divestment of packaging paper assets

1 Feb 2012
UPM-Kymmene Corporation ("UPM") has announced the signing of the sale of packaging paper assets to Swedish Billerud.
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Deal Announcement - Sale of Mita-Teknik to Axcel

1 Feb 2012
Mita-Teknik and the Andersen family has announced the sale of a majority stake in Mita-Teknik to Axcel, a Danish private equity sponsor.
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A Greek haircut could go all the way

31 Jan 2012 | Anders Matzen
Greece seems to be very close to a deal on a voluntary debt rescheduling, which could be announced later this week.
Metals

Deal announcement - EUR 2.7bn acquisition of Inoxum by Outokumpu and EUR 1bn rights issue

31 Jan 2012
Outokumpu Oyj ("Outokumpu") has announced the combination of Outokumpu with Inoxum Group ("Inoxum"), the stainless steel unit of ThyssenKrupp AG, to create a new global leader in stainless steel.
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Expect rising unemployment

27 Jan 2012 | Mikael Sarwe
Recent weak Swedish data motivates a downward revision in our Q4 GDP forecast. In turn, this will lead to lower employment and higher unemployment in 2012.
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Moderate inflationary pressure in 2012

25 Jan 2012 | Mikael Sarwe
Inflationary pressure is deemed moderate this year, which opens up for further rate cuts from the Riksbank. The year starts with a 0.6% m/m dip in CPI in January.
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The Riksbank’s simple rule of thumb

24 Jan 2012 | Mikael Sarwe
The Swedish Riksbank follows labour market trends closely and has adjusted its repo rate in correlation to the unemployment rate in no less than 95% of cases over the last 10 years. Based on this, we have formulated a simple rule of thumb for the Riksbank.
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Euro PMI's point to stable ECB rates

24 Jan 2012 | Anders Matzen
Euro area PMI's surprised on the upside - driven by Germany.
EuropeanUnion

Euro sovereign downgrades - a crisis accelerator

16 Jan 2012 | Niels From
France and Austria’s top AAA ratings fell victim of the sovereign debt crisis Friday night, when S&P downgraded nine of 16 Euro countries.
Emerging Markets

Emerging Markets Outlook 2012

13 Jan 2012 | Anders Svendsen
Many interesting and globally important stories in easily digestable format.
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