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  • Country Risk: ECR survey highlights shortcomings of ratings agencies

    Credit ratings agencies have endured criticism for failing to anticipate sovereign risk in the wake of the global crisis. A poor track record raises questions about their usefulness as a predictor of changing risk perceptions. Evidence suggests that subjective assessments by country experts based on a broad set of factors are more useful in quantifying risk trends.

    31 Oct 2012
  • ECR Q3 Results: Estonia the safest economy in CEE; Poland and Czech Republic deteriorate

    The latest results from the Euromoney Country Risk survey show that the Baltic States continue to climb the ECR global rankings. Estonia’s risk outlook has improved significantly since the global financial crisis, with the country now considered the safest in CEE.

    30 Oct 2012
  • South Africa’s mining risk increase traced to June 2011

    Political instability and deteriorating labour-market conditions were among factors that played into analysts’ heightened perceptions of South Africa’s risk outlook in Euromoney’s Country Risk survey, before the violence at Marikana and the rating agency downgrades.

    22 Oct 2012
  • ECR Forum: What Hugo Chavez’s recent election victory means for Venezuela’s economy

    Two experts give their views on the implications of another round of Chávismo on Latin America’s biggest oil producer

    22 Oct 2012
  • Sanctions tumble down on cornered Iran

    Iran’s overall ECR score fell by 2.6 points since Q1 2012 to 24.2 in Q3 2012, resulting in a four-place fall on ECR’s global rankings to 143.

    17 Oct 2012
  • Greece’s risk perception set to rise as Coca-Cola pulls plug on Athens Stock Exchange

    11 Oct 2012
  • Brics hold steady, but increased anxiety over China now makes Brazil safer bet

    Some of the world’s emerging powerhouses have seen their scores rise in Q3 2012, and China has now lost its safest-Brics status.

    04 Oct 2012
  • Eurozone predicament worsens in spite of latest plan to stem crisis

    Spain and Slovenia on the verge of a bailout; cohesiveness still at stake, according to Euromoney Country Risk Q3 2012 results.

    04 Oct 2012
  • China and Japan enter red zone

    The slowing of China’s growth miracle, coupled with concerns over leadership transition, has caused the world’s most populous nation to lose its status as the safest of the Brics, in the latest results of Euromoney’s country risk rankings. Elsewhere, Japan, once the world’s safest sovereign, has now fallen to its lowest level, and Spain plunged 14 places with a sovereign bailout now seemingly inevitable.

    04 Oct 2012
  • G10 risk perceptions increase dramatically in Q3 2012

    G10 has become riskier during the third quarter; Sweden is safer, according to Euromoney Country Risk Q3 results.

    04 Oct 2012
  • Eurozone’s problems still troubling eastern neighbours

    Eleven of the 18 sovereigns in Central and Eastern Europe became riskier in Q3 2012; notable exceptions are the Baltic climbers.

    04 Oct 2012
  • Conflict aside, the MENA region is holding up well to global risk aversion

    Iran, Yemen and Syria are the most concerning; without those, the region is safer than Brics, Euromoney Country Risk Q3 results.

    04 Oct 2012
  • Country risk ratchets up worldwide

    Country risk increased across the G10 and some of the other main regions of the world in Q3 2012, according to the survey. North America, the eurozone, and Central and Eastern Europe are among those areas where risk perceptions have increased the most.

    04 Oct 2012
  • LatAm treads water as gap to Asia narrows

    Although resilient to the increased risks elsewhere, some of Latin America’s lowest scoring sovereigns have been downgraded the most, according to Euromoney Country Risk Q3 results.

    04 Oct 2012
  • Stabilization across Africa masks divergent trends

    The region’s high risks are still evident - despite the attractions of recent bond issues - according to Euromoney Country Risk Q3 results.

    04 Oct 2012
  • Asian resilience masks contrasting trends

    Eleven of Asia’s 27 sovereigns see risks ease in Q3, but eight are perceived to be more risky, according to Euromoney Country Risk Q3 results.

    04 Oct 2012
  • Euromoney Country Risk Q3 2012 results: Methodology

    04 Oct 2012
  • Vietnam’s risk score falls as nation’s government-bond rating downgraded

    The sorry state of the Vietnamese banking sector contrasts with elsewhere in the region.

    02 Oct 2012
  • India re-opens for business after unravelling a new set of market reforms

    India’s new market reforms and privatization drive have started a debate about whether Asia’s third-largest economy is poised for a rebound.

    01 Oct 2012
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