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Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Wednesday, October 10, 2018)

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GLOBAL MARKETS: Italian government bonds remained under pressure early yesterday but market sentiment improved somewhat around lunchtime following Economy Minister Giovanni Tria’s pledge that he will do whatever is necessary to restore calm if market turbulence turns into a financial crisis. However, a number of risks lie ahead. In FX markets, the GBP was firmer across the board on press reports conveying that the EU and the UK have narrowed their...

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Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Monday, October 8, 2018)

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WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: In a letter sent to the Italian government late on Friday in response to the release of the Update to the Economic and Financial Document 2018 published one day before, the European Commission expressed concern that the budget deficit targets for 2019-2021 appear to point to a significant deviation from the EU fiscal rules. In other news, 10-yr US yields rose to a fresh seven-year high close to 3.25% on Friday in reaction to non-farm...

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Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Wednesday, October 3, 2018)

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WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: According to Italian press reports, following budget talks late yesterday between Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte, the two Deputy Prime Ministers, Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini, and Finance Minister Giovanni Tria, the government might decide to lower the budget deficit target for 2020 and 2021 to 2.2% of GDP and 2.0% of GDP, respectively, compared to the initial announcement of a 2.4% of GDP deficit target for each year. In reaction...

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Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Tuesday, October 2, 2018)

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WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: Market concerns about escalating tensions between the Italian government and the EU are mounting. 10-yr Italian government bond yields rose further in early European trade on Tuesday hitting a 4½  year high of 3.44% while the EUR remained under pressure marking an intraday low of 1.1523 against the USD earlier today, the lowest since 21 August. No major data releases are due for release today with market focus turning to a speech by...

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Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Monday, October 1, 2018)

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WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: Market concerns about Italy’s public finances stability prevail. Against this background, investors continued to demand a higher credit risk premium on Italian government bonds while the EUR/USD was hovering in early European trade within distance from Friday’s two-week intraday low of 1.1566. Elsewhere, the CAD was among the main outperformers in FX markets on news that Canada was to join the US and Mexico to form a revised NAFTA...

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Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Friday, September 28, 2018)

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WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: The Italian government issued a statement yesterday to announce that the new budget deficit target for 2019 has been set at the upper range of market expectations at 2.4%-of-GDP. Tensions with the European Commission are likely to escalate and major rating agencies may downgrade Italy’s sovereign credit. Not surprisingly, market reaction was negative. The EUR/USD dropped to a two week low of 1.1614 earlier today and Italy’s 10-yr...

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Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Monday, September 24, 2018)

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WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: Developments over the last few sessions have increased worries over a hard Brexit scenario. EU leaders rejected the “Chequers plan” at last week’s summit while UK PM Theresa May acknowledged that Brexit talks have hit “an impasse”. In reaction to the above, the GBP came under pressure while the USD was firmer across the board favored by intensified trade woes on news that China cancelled trade talks with the US that were scheduled to...

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Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Friday, September 21, 2018)

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WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: Risk assets retained a positive tone in early trade on Friday supported by the prevailing market view that the direct impact of the US/China trade dispute on the world economy will likely be limited. In spite of global equity markets’ positive performance, USTs and German Bunds gained some ground today, partially supported by renewed Brexit jitters. In FX markets, the USD extended recent losses amid receding trade war concerns with...

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