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		<title><![CDATA[Russia's Economy Slows in November]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  As doubts grow that in the post Dubai World Russia's central bank will be able to sustain a great deal of momentum in its ongoing programme of interest rate reductions, we learn this week that the pace of expansion in Russia's economy slowed back in November,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:09:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[As Hungary's "Correction" Heads For A Dead End, Time For A Change Of Course?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  Hungary's economic correction still fails to convince. Indeed I am not the only one who remains unconvined by the viability of what is currently taking place it seems, since according to the opposition supporting local daily newspaper Magyar Hírlap, none other than the Hungarian Prime Minister...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:40:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Banks of Turkey]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  The Top 10 Banks of Turkey based on Assets as of December 2008 are shown below:   Source: Banking in CEE: Challenging Times but Recovery on the Horizon by UNICREDIT TIRIAC BANK S.A. by Edward Hugh]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:32:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global Economic Crisis Far from Over - Especially in Europe's Periphery]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  As far as I am concerned, this is ... the most complex crisis we've ever seen due to the number of factors in play.-Spanish Economy Minister Pedro Solbes speaking to the Spanish radio station Punto Radio September 2008The global imbalances have to add up to zero...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:48:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[South Africa's Recession Continues Even as the Rand Surges]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  "The banking sector in South Africa has insubstantial leverage and did not enter in to excessively risky lending practices that were the hallmarks of the credit-boom days. However, South Africa&#8217;s Current Account Deficit remains wide and its ability to service its short-term debt is on the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:49:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lessons from Central Europe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  The non-biblical concept of original sin, as Claus Vistesen notes in this post, when propounded in its standard Obstfeld & Krugman textbook version refers to the situation where many developing economies who are not able to borrow in their own currencies feel forced to denominate large...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:20:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The IMF/EU Commission Rift on Latvia Seems to Be Deepening]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  Two weeks ago I drew attention to a revealing press conference given by IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky and European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer, where it seemed a rather different posture was being taken on the Latvian question than that which...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:11:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cliff Hanging in Bulgaria]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  click to enlarge   The International Monetary Fund this week forecast that the recession in Bulgaria would be deeper than it previously predicted. Such a decision should come as no surprise to anyone, since the country's economic dynamics in both the short and long term...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:17:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are the IMF and ECB Lining Up Against the EU Commission over Latvia?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  There was a very interesting and revealing press conference given by IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky and European Central Bank governing council member Christian Noyer in Paris on Thursday. Christian Noyer said that, in his opinion, Baltic countries like Latvia would not be helped...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:23:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Green Shoots in Germany and Estonia?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  Well, I am busying myself this morning scratching around looking for green shoots in Turkey. But as I was digging, I couldn't help notice this coming in over the radar from Germany, courtesy of Bloomberg:   German exports fell more than economists forecast in April...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:37:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Trouble with Latvia: What It Is and Why It Matters]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F141370-the-trouble-with-latvia-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  As I pointed out recently in the context of Latvia and the impending potential for a devaluation, there is a distinct risk of falling victim to the sin of crying wolf. Yet, as the plot inevitable thickens I am maintaining, as it were, my cry. There...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:47:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ZEW Central and Eastern Europe Sentiment Index Shows First Positive Reading in 20 Months]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  Investor confidence in central and eastern Europe entered positive territory for the first time in 20 months in May according to Sentiment Indicator published by ZEW Center for European Economic Research and Erste Bank. May marked the first positive reading on the index since September 2007....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 11:10:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Hungary Set to Become the Next Iceland?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F138771-is-hungary-set-to-become-the-next-iceland%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  Iceland, why on earth Iceland? Well, the issue I have in mind concerns the independence and viability of central bank monetary policy (especially in a small open economy like Hungary's) and the role interest rates, and investor sentiment, and yield differentials, and oh yes, I almost...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 10:32:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Russia Forecasts Possible 8% GDP Contraction for 2009]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  Of course, with all these large negative numbers going the rounds at the moment, we are all in danger of going rapidly dizzy, but some pieces of data still have the power to shock, like yesterday's announcement from Russia's Economy Minister Elvira Nabiullina that the economy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 02:53:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Not All Eastern European Economies Are the Same]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  This was Angela Merkel's point wasn't it, if you remember, as she came out of the April EU summit she argued: Saying that the situation is the same for all central and eastern European states, I don&#8217;t see that&#8230;&#8230;you cannot compare the dire situation in Hungary...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 09:05:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Russia's Economy Contracts by 7% in Q1: Will 2010 Be Even Worse?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F129967-russia-s-economy-contracts-by-7-in-q1-will-2010-be-even-worse%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  According to Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach last week, Russia's economy shrank by 7 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2009, a staggering turnaround for an economy which has just enjoyed eight years of solid oil-fueled growth. "These figures are worse than...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:16:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Eastern Europe's Forecasts Keep Getting Revised Downwards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F127510-eastern-europe-s-forecasts-keep-getting-revised-downwards%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  According to a study out Monday by Capital Economics, Eastern Europe&#8217;s gross domestic product will shrink by 6 percent on average this year, with every single economy in the region posting a contraction. The biggest declines (15 percent) will be in Latvia and Lithuania. Poland is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:57:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do They Sell Parachutes in Bulgaria?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F127332-do-they-sell-parachutes-in-bulgaria%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  Someone was asking in comments recently about whether there was much in the way of hard data out there to confirm the general impression many of us have that the Bulgarian economy is tanking. Well, by accident I came across this little detail today: retail sales...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:58:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Last Weekend's EU Summit Did and Did Not Achieve]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  Well reading the press on Monday morning it would have been fairly easy to reach the conclusion that nothing really happened yesterday in Brussels, and that a great opportunity was lost. The latter may finally be true, but the former most certainly is not. Let's look...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:50:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why the EU Must Let Eastern European Nations in Now]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hugh submits:  &#8220;It&#8217;s 20 years after Europe was united in 1989 &#8211; what a tragedy if you allow Europe to split again.&#8221;Robert Zoellick, World Bank p resident, in an interview with the Financial Times Click On Image To View Video by Edward Hugh]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:01:16 -0800</pubDate>
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