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Balkan banks will raise Greek contagion fears

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EUROPE

The loan let Greece make a scheduled payment to the ECB and settle arrears to the IMF. It is part of the agreement in principle with Greece's international lenders for a third…

Pressure rises on Hungary’s central bank to hike rates

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CENTRAL EUROPE

The long-anticipated change in ECB policy is contributing to the recent tightening in financial conditions. The credibility of central banks in Central Europe (CE), where…

Hungary is unprepared for normalised monetary policy

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HUNGARY

The MNB is bucking the trend of tighter monetary policy across Central Europe by increasing its range of unconventional tools to keep financial conditions loose. This is despite…

Central Europe external risks still outweigh internal

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CENTRAL EUROPE

Investors are brushing off mounting political risks in Poland despite an erosion of democratic checks and balances under the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government. In…

Reflation trade benefits Central Europe’s currencies

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CENTRAL EUROPE

The outlook for the koruna, forint, zloty and leu.

Monetary tightening will spread through Central Europe

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CENTRAL EUROPE

Central banks’ divergent monetary policy stances in Central Europe.

ECB may spark rate rises in Central-Eastern Europe

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CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE

Inflation rates are rising sharply across Central-Eastern Europe (CEE), mainly thanks to a recovery in commodity prices. A flurry of stronger-than-expected economic data is…

Central bank missteps are Emerging Europe's main risk

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EUROPE

The implications of a sharp rise in foreign holdings of local currency-denominated government bonds in Emerging Europe.

ECB will decide Central Europe’s turn from rate rises

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CENTRAL EUROPE

Pressure is mounting on the ECB to justify its withdrawal of monetary stimulus, following a sharp fall in German industrial activity in November that has increased the risk of…

Central European local investors will hold on to bonds

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CENTRAL EUROPE

The lira’s collapse is fuelling outflows from Turkey’s local currency government debt market, as foreign investors reduce their purchases of emerging market (EM) domestic debt…