Europe

Ukraine’s Chafed Chocolate Taste Buds

Ukrainian stocks led the MSCI frontier charge with a near 20 percent gain through end-May as local bond yields reverted ...

Europe’s Inescapable Smaller Economy Grind

The EBRD halved this year’s regional growth forecast to 1.5 percent on “unusually high” uncertainty from Russia-Ukraine fallout, which could ...

The EBRD’s Convoluted Conversion Convocation

The EBRD annual meeting in Poland approached its 25th anniversary under the cloud of the Ukraine crisis eroding post-Soviet Union regional ...

Ukraine’s Value Valley Validations

Ukrainian stocks and bonds were abandoned by the hardiest investors as the industrial East contributing half of output continued to ...

Turkey’s Untoward Twittering Classes

Turkish officials who have been favored headliners scrambled to reassure investors in a series of meetings and seminars at the ...

The Baltics’ Allied Antipathy Allowance

Baltic stock markets in the EU and NATO revisited their post-War and communist Russian legacies as Western sanctions were triggered ...

Europe’s Crimean Crevice Canvassing

Russia’s Crimea incursion met with immediate US and EU sanctions as troops massed elsewhere in Ukraine, as its 15 percent ...

Greece’s Perverse Port Call

Greek shares were ahead 25 percent at the top of the MSCI core universe as a compromise was finally struck ...

The Balkans’ Balky Bloc Blemish

Balkan markets were further battered by East-West tensions over Ukraine after early-year slippage on pesky economic and political plights rekindled ...

Central Europe’s Pension Pyramid Schemes

Following controversial private pension fund takeovers in Hungary and Poland the World Bank has issued a regional report on the ...

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