Credit ratings: Baltics and Balkans in Fitch firing line

Central and eastern Europe is by no means immune to financial woes, strong economic growth levels notwithstanding.

Edward Parker, Fitch

“The negative outlooks reflect the heightened downside risk of an abrupt slowdown in capital inflows and a costly macroeconomic adjustment”
Edward Parker, Fitch

That’s the conclusion of Fitch Ratings, which is warning that widening current account deficits in several countries in the region pose a threat to their economic stability. The London-based ratings agency recently slashed the outlooks on its ratings for Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Romania from stable to negative, principally as a result of growing trade imbalances.

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