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How China’s Balkan Silk Road Can Resurrect The South Stream – OpEd
By Andrew Korybko Oriental Review China is extending its Silk Road into the Balkans, with a planned project to construct a railroad from the Greek port of Piraeus all the way to Budapest. This would...
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A Soros “Trojan Horse” Inside The New Greek Government?
By Wayne Madsen As Greece celebrates the inauguration of its anti-austerity government, the euphoria should be tempered with a bit of realism. Although new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who named his...
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Disinflation In EU Countries Outside The Eurozone – IMF
By Plamen Iossifov and Jiri Podpiera Inflation has been falling sharply across Europe since 2012 (see Charts 1 and 2). Across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), inflation expectations have also drifted...
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Hungary: We Have Strengthened Our Cooperation With Russia
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President Vladimir Putin agreed that Hungary can use the amount of gas which has not been consumed so far, within long-term gas contracts due to expire this year. Also,...
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EU May Block Russia-Hungary Nuclear Deal On Concerns Budapest Won’t Ramp Up...
A deal by Hungary to award nuclear power contracts to a Russian state-owned company is facing “a growing threat” from EU regulators amid concerns that Budapest may resist attempts to ramp up sanctions...
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EU Considering “Reframing” Russian Energy Ties
The European Commission is reportedly looking to create a single energy market which is based on cross-border connections to improve security of supply and to cut its dependence on Russia, which...
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New EU Energy Union Looks To Break Dependence On Russia
By Alina Yablokova and Global Risk Insights On February 25, the European Commission presented its Energy Union package of proposals, a first major step made by the European legislators to realise the...
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Oil Geopolitics: South Stream Has Been Resurrected Through Balkan Stream – OpEd
As Russia begins to build a pipeline through Macedonia that could form the basis of a revised South Stream route, the Hungarian President is in talks with Erdogan over financing this enormous project....
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Hungary Becomes First European Country To Join China’s New Silk Road Initiative
Hungary has officially become the first European country to ink a cooperation agreement for China’s New Silk Road initiative, a package of strategic initiatives to build the Silk Road Economic Belt and...
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NATO’s Black Sea Bloc: Spreading The “New Cold War” Beyond Eastern Europe...
By Andrew Korybko NATO’s Black Sea bloc gets busy (I), Via Oriental Review The shaky truce in Ukraine has given NATO ample opportunities to spread the New Cold War beyond Eastern Europe and into new...
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Introducing An Emerging Market ETF That Excludes China
By James Eugene Looking to gain exposure to emerging markets while simultaneously avoiding China? Well you’re in luck. Emerging Global Advisors have launched a new emerging market exchange traded fund...
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Emerging Markets: Preview Of The Week Ahead
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog (from my colleagues Dr. Win Thin and Ilan Solot) EM starts the week on a mixed footing. Turkey is the star performer from the surprise result of the elections...
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Divergence Update: Global Monetary Policy Cycles
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog (from my colleagues Dr. Win Thin and Ilan Solot) The global investment environment continues to be driven largely by divergences in central bank policies. This...
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Emerging Markets: Week Ahead Preview
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog (from my colleagues Dr. Win Thin and Ilan Solot) EM starts the week off on softer footing, as Friday’s jobs report supports the notion of December Fed lift-off....
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Emerging Markets: Preview Of The Week Ahead
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog (from my colleagues Dr. Win Thin and Ilan Solot) EM starts the week on a soft footing. The repercussions of the attacks in Paris are still unclear, but the...
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Emerging Market Preview: The Week Ahead
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog We think that it’s still too early to say whether Friday’s price action was simply profit-taking ahead of the weekend, or the resumption of overall negative market...
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Emerging Markets: What Has Changed This Week?
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog 1) PBOC appears to have confirmed a somewhat easier monetary stance 2) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib is consolidating his grip on power 3) Hungarian central bank...
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Making Sense Of China’s Gold Fix And Hungary’s Dim Sum Offering
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog Yesterday, China launched its first gold fix. It will offer a fixing twice a day going forward yuan. The Shanghai Gold Exchange established the fix the same way...
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