Welcome to the latest issue of D&B's Country Risk Update.
The debt problems on both sides of the Atlantic continue to weigh heavily on the outlook for the global economy: the authorities in the EU and US have not yet come up with convincing longer-term solutions to their respective crises, and the current high levels of debt threaten to exacerbate the global economic slowdown. Meanwhile, the possibility of more quantitative easing in the US and the ECB’s purchase of Italy’s and Spain’s sovereign bonds could fuel new asset-price bubbles and inflationary risks.
These developments also reflect elevated political risk on both sides of the Atlantic. More broadly, companies will need to closely monitor political risk if they are to maintain an informed view of potential risks in the countries where they do business.
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