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The more dovish-than-expected press conference following today’s MPC meeting confirmed that the Polish central bank is placing more weight on concerns about the weak external environment than domestic inflationary pressures. While we think that inflation …
11th September 2019
We doubt that Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies will be able to regain any of the ground they have lost against the euro over the next year or so. The Hungarian forint is likely to be the worst performing currency in the region, while the …
9th September 2019
Russian central bank governor, Elvira Nabiullina, used the post-meeting press conference to hint at a possible further rate cut by year-end, supporting our view that the easing cycle has further to run. For our part, we think slow growth and weak …
6th September 2019
The recovery in Hungarian private sector credit has been an important driver of GDP growth in recent years, but we think that the credit boom doesn’t have much further to run . One of the most impressive aspects of Hungary’s recent expansion – GDP grew by …
21st August 2019
The rise in Polish inflation to a seven-year high in July and likelihood that it will stay above target over the next 18 months will keep the focus of the MPC on tightening. But we don’t think this will tip the balance and are sticking with our view that …
14th August 2019
The recent pace of Russian household lending looks frothy, but the central bank already appears to have taken some of the steam out of the credit boom. Even if household loans start turning sour further down the line, the impact on the banking sector …
8th August 2019
The Turkish lira has held up remarkably well in the face of the escalation of the US-China trade war and the recent rise in global investor risk aversion. But with the threat of US sanctions lingering, concerns about Turkey’s external vulnerabilities …
6th August 2019
The communications following today’s meeting suggest that Czech policymakers are trying to temper the market’s view that interest rates will be cut in the coming months. Nonetheless, the Bank’s projections have moved closer to our view that rate cuts will …
1st August 2019
The relatively dovish statement accompanying the Russian central bank’s decision to cut the policy rate today supports our view that the easing cycle has a lot further to go. We expect an additional 75bp of cuts over the next 9-12 months, whereas the …
26th July 2019
A raft of survey data suggests that last month’s fall in Hungarian core inflation is unlikely to mark the start of a downward trend – as the central bank anticipates. We expect that underlying price pressures will build over the coming quarters, prompting …
The Turkish central bank’s new governor, Murat Uysal, delivered a sharp 425bp interest rate cut at today’s MPC meeting and pressure from President Erdogan means that further aggressive easing lies in store over the coming months. But this is likely to …
25th July 2019
Manufacturing surveys across Central Europe have overstated the weakness of industry recently, but the strength of production growth looks unsustainable. As prolonged weakness in the euro-zone takes an increasing toll on activity in the region, a slowdown …
24th July 2019
An initial round of US sanctions on Turkey, if approved by President Trump, would probably generate some financial market turbulence and this could ultimately cause major strains on banks’ balance sheets. US officials have reportedly prepared a list of …
16th July 2019
A further sharp rise in EU structural fund inflows will support strong Polish fixed investment growth over the next couple of years. But that won’t be enough to prevent overall GDP growth from slowing. Since the start of 2018, fixed investment growth has …
Strong domestic demand means that Romania’s current account deficit, which is already among the largest of any major EM, is likely to widen further. This makes the leu increasingly vulnerable to a deterioration in investor sentiment and is likely to …
15th July 2019
The Czech economy has underperformed its regional peers in recent years due to its larger exposure to the euro-zone and weaker household spending. However, the Czech slowdown is close to bottoming out. In contrast, slowdowns elsewhere in Central Europe …
10th July 2019
The dismissal of Turkey’s central bank governor over the weekend increases the chances of aggressive cuts in interest rates in the near-term. But it has also raised the risk of larger currency falls and is likely to make the country’s high inflation …
8th July 2019
The relatively dovish stance adopted by Poland’s MPC in the communications accompanying today’s interest rate meeting supports our view that monetary policy settings will be left unchanged until the end of the Council’s term in early-2022. The decision by …
3rd July 2019
A rise in inflation has led five of the ten Polish MPC members to suggest that interest rates may soon need to be raised. But we doubt that any of the five more dovish members, including Governor Glapinski (who has the deciding vote in the event of a …
2nd July 2019
The direct economic impact of an initial round of US sanctions on Turkey related to the purchase of Russian defence equipment would probably be limited, but past experience suggests that the threat of further sanctions would weigh on the lira and cause …
27th June 2019
The Czech National Bank’s post-meeting communications offered the strongest hint yet that the monetary tightening cycle is over. With underlying inflationary pressures likely to ease and the global economy set to slow further, we think that easing will …
26th June 2019
We still think that further monetary tightening lies in store in Hungary over the next eighteen months. But dovish communications accompanying today’s monetary policy meeting, and the reluctance to hike interest rates in the face of rising inflation, …
25th June 2019
The opposition candidate secured victory in the rerun of Istanbul’s mayoral election, but this is unlikely to result in a favourable shift in the direction of economic policymaking in Turkey as a whole. And major risks still lie ahead for the economy, …
24th June 2019