Новости за 16.04.2018

Iran recorded non-black market mobile phone imports numbering 3.2mn handsets in the last Persian year (ended March 20), marking a 112% y/y gain, ...

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on April 16 he is rejecting a request from the justice minister to dismiss the head of the National ...

The upgrade was driven by an improvement in the bank’s financial profile, and the rating agency says another upgrade is on the cards in the next 12-24 months if its business position improves.

Latest data also shows Turkish auto production edged up 1% y/y to 159,464 units in March.

Latvia’s state security service, the Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB), plans to scrutinise a tender to deliver trams to the country’s ...

Higher loan-loss charges will reduce banks’ profitability and capital ratios, raising the the probability that foreign funding availability will fall, ratings agency says, noting 33% of Turkey’s bank loans are in foreign currency.

Ukrainian-American acting health minister Dr Ulana Suprun is leading a revolution in health care reforms that began on April 1st, but she has an uphill battle as she needs to tackle the corruption in the system first.

Ukrainian-American acting health minister Dr Ulana Suprun is leading a revolution in health care reforms that began on April 1st, but she has an uphill battle as she needs to tackle the corruption in the system first.

The Trump administration postponed imposing yet another round of sanctions to the “near future” in the wake of this weekends airstrikes on Syria.

The chronic weakness of the Turkish lira (TRY) is credit negative for Turkey’s sovereign debt rating and poses ...

Across Q1, the deficit widened by 37% y/y to TRY20.4bn while the primary surplus declined by 51% y/y to TRY1.9bn.

Output growth slowed for the second consecutive month but industrial production has now been in growth territory for an uninterrupted 16 months.

Year on year, however, the figure is a clear improvement on January 2017's 13%.

Increased transit container traffic through the Eurasian Economic Union will depend on trade between China and the EU, but transit states will need to expand their transport infrastructure and remove a number of barriers, EDB report says.

Russians spent €1.1bn on international real estate in 2017, up by a quarter y/y, as the middle class hunts for a safe haven for for their life savings.

Automakers argue strict limitation of emissions levels could cause a significant drop in production of cars in the V4 where the economies of Czechia and Slovakia in particular depend heavily on the car industry.

First round victory hailed by Djukanovic as an endorsement of Montenegro’s pro-Western orientation, but opposition blames state capture by politician who has been in power for nearly three decades.

Slovenian's President Borut Pahor has dismissed the parliament and called early parliamentary elections for June 3, according to a ...

A US investor backed by Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) might replace troubled China Energy Company Limited (CEFC) and take over 51% ...

4.1% growth in first two months of 2018 indicates the economy has returned to the strong growth cycle started at the end of 2016, which seemed to have stalled at the end of last year.

Some $20bn erased from value of Turkish equities since start of April amid country's litany of economic and political woes.