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Business Forecast Reports
- $765
Read More Albania Business Forecast Report
54 pages    Pub date: February 4 2010    Quarterly   
Avoiding Recession, But Caution Still Warranted With limited trade and capital market integration with Western Europe, Albania has managed to weather the global recession relatively well, and is estimated to have been one of only a handful of states in emerging Europe to avoid a recession in 2009. That said, with a host of le...
- $765
Read More Austria Business Forecast Report
39 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6371    Pub date: March 10 2010    Quarterly   
The Austria Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Austria.
- $765
Read More Belarus Business Forecast Report
47 pages    ISSN: ISSN 1759-8257    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
Impact Of The Breakdown With Russia While we have revised up our forecast for Belarusian growth in 2009 following better than expected H1 real GDP data, we caution that the post Soviet economy is expected to remain in the doldrums through the medium term. Indeed, the Q409 Belarus Business Forecast...
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Read More Belgium Business Forecast Report
39 pages    ISSN: ISSN 1745-0721    Pub date: February 11 2010    Quarterly   
The Belgium Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Belgium.
- $765
Read More Bosnia-Herzegovina Business Forecast Report
64 pages    ISSN: 1748-2380    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
Political Tensions To Remain Elevated Bosnia looks set to post weak 1.5% real GDP growth in 2010, as the sluggish recovery in the western Balkans and the eurozone gradually kicks in, prompting a slight return of foreign investment and a pick-up in demand for Bosnia’s exports. That said, w...
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Read More Bulgaria Business Forecast Report
74 pages    ISSN: 1479-6023    Pub date: February 4 2010    Quarterly   
Internal Devaluation Exacerbating Recession Bulgaria’s economic downturn accelerated during the third quarter of 2009, with the government’s internal devaluation strategy exacerbating the deepening recession. Though certainly not as severe as some of the more precarious economies in emerging Europe, Bulgaria’s downturn will l...
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Read More Caucasus Business Forecast Report
78 pages    ISSN: 1750-2144    Pub date: February 4 2010    Quarterly   
Growth Across The Region In 2010 We continue to expect sharp differentiations in economic growth between the three Caucasus economies over the medium term. We now see the Azerbaijani economy growing 11.0% in 2010, up from an estimated 9.0% in 2009, given an expected uptick in oil production and higher oil prices. At the ot...
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Read More Croatia Business Forecast Report
68 pages    ISSN: 1743-8411    Pub date: February 4 2010    Quarterly   
Slow Recovery Ahead The Croatian economy contracted by 5.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) during Q309. This represents a slight improvement from the 6.3% y-o-y and 6.7% declines posted in Q2 and Q1, respectively. While the main driver of the improved headline figure came from consumer spending, which accounts for more than 50% of GDP,...
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Read More Cyprus Business Forecast Report
58 pages    ISSN: 1746-5761    Pub date: February 4 2010    Quarterly   
Make Or Break Time For Reunification Talks The window of opportunity to reach a settlement on reunification will soon close, as elections in the Turkish Cypriot North are likely to bring hardliner Dervis Eroglu, whose Party of National Unity favours partition, to the negotiating table. Incumbent leaders Dimitris Christofias (...
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Read More Czech Republic Business Forecast Report
59 pages    ISSN: 1479-6104    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
Worst Has Passed But Recovery Will Be Weak The Czech Republic looks set to post weak growth in 2010 (we forecast real GDP to expand by 1.8%), buoyed only by a slight pick-up in private consumption and continued government spending. Gross fixed capital formation looks set to return to po...
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Read More Denmark Business Forecast Report
28 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6452    Pub date: January 11 2010    Quarterly   
The Denmark Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Denmark.
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Read More Estonia Business Forecast Report
66 pages    ISSN: 1750-211X    Pub date: February 4 2010    Quarterly   
Early Euro Adoption On Track Despite the regional financial market rally since early 2009 and tentative signals of a global macroeconomic recovery, we hold to our broadly negative long-term outlook for the Estonian economy. Estonia is facing a structural economic contraction as it unwinds an asset and credit bubble built t...
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Read More Finland Business Forecast Report
33 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6304    Pub date: February 11 2010    Quarterly   
The Finland Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Finland.
- $765
Read More France Business Forecast Report
37 pages    ISSN: 1479-618X    Pub date: February 11 2010    Quarterly   
The France Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in France.
- $765
Read More Germany Business Forecast Report
58 pages    ISSN: 1479-6198    Pub date: February 4 2010    Quarterly   
German Economy Finds Its Feet Germany’s economy is set to bounce back from the 5.0% contraction in real GDP witnessed in 2009 to see growth of 1.7% in 2010 according to BMI’s latest forecasts. We expect to see a more balanced growth profile over the forecast period, with a stronger consumer and a weaker export sector. Support...
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Read More Greece Business Forecast Report
53 pages    ISSN: 1479-6163    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
Economic Crisis To Direct New Government’s Policy The new PASO K government issued a shock revision to fiscal data, arguing that its predecessor had been manipulating the figures to hide the extent of Greece’s fiscal problems. The 2009 budget shortfall is now estimated to be 12.7% of GDP...
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Read More Hungary Business Forecast Report
70 pages    ISSN: 1474-1431    Pub date: February 4 2010    Quarterly   
Recovery Stuck In Second Gear Hungary’s medium-term outlook remains weak, and we hold to our forecast for real GDP to expand by only 0.1% in 2010 accordingly. Indeed, the Q210 Hungary Business Forecast Report paints a relatively bleak picture on the health of the Hungarian economy going forward, which we expect to underperfor...
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Read More Iceland Business Forecast Report
22 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6282    Pub date: September 25 2009    Quarterly   
The Iceland Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Iceland.
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Read More Ireland Business Forecast Report
31 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6290    Pub date: February 11 2010    Quarterly   
The Ireland Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Ireland.
- $765
Read More Italy Business Forecast Report
32 pages    ISSN: 1479-6139    Pub date: January 11 2010    Quarterly   
The Italy Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Italy.
- $765
Read More Kazakhstan & Central Asia Business Forecast Report
59 pages    ISSN: 1746-5743    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
IMF Support Still On The Cards While the economic downturn across Central Asia continues to play out (for the most part), we have revised up our 2009 growth forecasts for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to reflect the less severe deterioration through the first half of the year. We still believe that th...
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Read More Latvia Business Forecast Report
60 pages    ISSN: 1750-2136    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
Depression Takes Hold While the worst of Latvia’s recession is now likely to have passed, we nonetheless stress that the economy is still set to contract in 2010, underscoring our full-year -2.3% forecast for that year. Moreover, beyond then, we expect economic growth to remain...
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Read More Lithuania Business Forecast Report
57 pages    ISSN: 1750-2136    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
Recession To Last Through 2010 Lithuania remains in the midst of a severe macroeconomic and financial crisis. Following the release of Q2 GDP data, which showed the economy contracting by a staggering 20.2% yearon- year (y-o-y), we have revised down our forecast for Lithuanian growth in 2009, and no...
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Read More Macedonia Business Forecast Report
51 pages    ISSN: 1746-577X    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
Longer-Term Growth Prospects Remain Healthy Although the 2009 recession throughout CEE will set the stage for a prolonged period of modest or even stagnant growth in many of the region’s precarious economies, we believe that Macedonia’s growth outlook remains fairly upbeat. For one, the banking se...
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Read More Netherlands Business Forecast Report
35 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6347    Pub date: March 10 2010    Quarterly   
Domestic Politics Employment/Consumer Confidence Dichotomy Dutch consumer confidence is improving: although consumers are still predominantly pessimistic about the economic situation, they are becoming more hopeful about the economy’s prospects for the coming year. While this is the natural reaction to an ...
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Read More Norway Business Forecast Report
22 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6401    Pub date: September 25 2009    Quarterly   
The Norway Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Norway.
- $765
Read More Poland Business Forecast Report
74 pages    ISSN: 1470-7454    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
On Track To Avoid Recession This Year On the back of H109 GDP data, Poland looks to be one of the few economies in emerging Europe to avoid recession this year. Indeed, the robust banking sector and internal demand driven economic model have limited the feed through from the internation...
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Read More Portugal Business Forecast Report
32 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6312    Pub date: December 15 2009    Quarterly   
The Portugal Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Portugal.
- $765
Read More Romania Business Forecast Report
59 pages    ISSN: 1479-6120    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
Political Headwinds Could Threaten Economic Recovery Supporting our view that Romania’s economic downturn has likely found a bottom, a flash estimate released by the National Institute of Statistics shows the economy contracting at a rate of 7.1% year-on-year (y-o-y) during Q309, followi...
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Read More Russia Business Forecast Report
76 pages    ISSN: 1470-7446    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
Improved Macroeconomic Outlook Russian financial market conditions have improved significantly through Q209-Q309 and we expect this to feed through to a marked economic recovery in 2010. Crisis risks have fallen substantially, and the stabilisation of the banking sector through H110 wil...
- $765
Read More Serbia, Montenegro & Kosovo Business Forecast Report
90 pages    ISSN: 1746-5796    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
Risks Shift To The Upside While our core view that trend growth through 2014 will remain well below pre-financial crisis levels, we highlight an increasingly optimistic outlook for 2010 in the Q110 Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo Business Forecast Report. Indeed, in line with g...
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Read More Slovakia Business Forecast Report
68 pages    ISSN: 1479-6236    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
Fiscal Crisis Looming Ahead Of Election? The Q110 Slovakia Business Forecast report portrays an increasingly optimistic outlook on the health of the Slovak economy in 2010. Indeed, while 2009’s recession will certainly be deep, we nevertheless believe that a stable banking sector, broad ...
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Read More Slovenia Business Forecast Report
66 pages    ISSN: 1479-6074    Pub date: February 26 2010    Quarterly   
Recovery Outlook: Slow But Steady We hold to our core scenario for Slovenia, with a tentative macroeconomic recovery expected to begin gaining pace this year. We stress, though, that the improvement in fundamental demand conditions will remain weak through the medium term, limiting pote...
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Read More Spain Business Forecast Report
36 pages    ISSN: 1479-6244    Pub date: December 14 2009    Quarterly   
The Spain Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Spain.
- $765
Read More Sweden Business Forecast Report
30 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6428    Pub date: January 11 2010    Quarterly   
The Sweden Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Sweden.
- $765
Read More Switzerland Business Forecast Report
33 pages    ISSN: ISSN   2040-6339    Pub date: March 10 2010    Quarterly   
The Switzerland Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Switzerland.
- $765
Read More Turkey Business Forecast Report
57 pages    ISSN: 1470-7357    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
A Regional Outperformer In 2010 We hold to our view that Turkey will be a major outperformer in the emerging Europe region in 2010. The country is well positioned to take advantage of a stabilisation in global credit markets and this has already been reflected in a sharp recovery in hea...
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Read More Ukraine Business Forecast Report
63 pages    ISSN: 1479-6090    Pub date: January 12 2010    Quarterly   
Second Wave Crisis Risks Emerging While underlying risks to political and economic stability in Ukraine have been significantly mitigated concomitantly with the broader resurgence in investor risk appetite that has emerged since Q209, our outlook for 2010 remains relatively bleak. Indee...
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Read More United Kingdom Business Forecast Report
33 pages    ISSN: 1479-6260    Pub date: February 11 2010    Quarterly   
The United Kingdom Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in the United Kingdom.