Rapid growth in Finnish-Russian trade
Rapid growth in Finnish-Russian trade In the first quarter of this year, the value of goods exported to Russia increased by nearly 30 % y-o-y. Russia's total goods imports grew at roughly the sam...
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Russian imports on the rise; modest capital flows
Russia Russian imports on the rise; modest capital flows Preliminary balance-of-payments figures from the Central Bank of Russia show that the value of Russian imports of goods and services in dolla...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
China’s current account surplus grew slightly last year
China’s current account surplus grew slightly last year The goods trade surplus ballooned last year, driven in particular by lower world commodity prices that made imports cheaper. Even so, the soari...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2015
IMF lowers its forecast for Russian GDP
IMF lowers its forecast for Russian GDP The IMF’s newest World Economic Outlook projects a nearly one-percentage point deeper contraction in Russian GDP in 2016 than in its January forecast. The IMF ...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2016
Russia’s foreign goods trade recovered; corporate capital outflow rose
Russia Russia’s foreign goods trade recovered; corporate capital outflow rose As expected, preliminary balance-of-payments figures from the Central Bank of Russia show that export revenues and impor...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2021
Partial release of balance-of-payments data gives general picture of Russia’s import decline and large capital outflows
Russia Partial release of balance-of-payments data gives general picture of Russia’s import decline and large capital outflows After a several months’ pause, the Bank of Russia released balance-of-p...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2022
Russian foreign trade further on path to recovery, capital flows dwindle
Russia Russian foreign trade further on path to recovery, capital flows dwindle Preliminary balance-of-payments figures released by the Central Bank of Russia for the first quarter show that export ...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2021
Russia bans travel to Turkey and restricts imports
Russia bans travel to Turkey and restricts imports In reaction to Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian military jet on November 24, Russia’s foreign minister immediately declared a terrorist threat in...
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FIFA World Cup provides small boost to Russian economic growth
Russia FIFA World Cup provides small boost to Russian economic growth Russia's FIFA World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC) reports that the soccer tournament drew nearly 600,000 foreign spec...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2018
China relaxes monetary policy
China relaxes monetary policy China this week lowered by a half percentage point the reserve requirement on bank deposits. Since March 1, large banks must place 17 % of their deposits with the People...
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Chinese economy shows slight signs of slowdown in August
China,economy,BOFIT Weekly Review Chinese economy shows slight signs of slowdown in August Economic figures suggest that economic growth slowed a bit in August. China’s National Bureau of Statistics...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2025
No signs of improvement for the Russian economy
#Russia No signs of improvement for the Russian economy Rosstat reports that industrial output contracted by 2 % y-o-y in January-February. Mining & quarrying production fell by 3.1 %,...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2023
Russia has a large, but relatively poor, middle class
Russia Russia has a large, but relatively poor, middle class Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest private commercial bank, has released a study claiming that 30 % of the Russian population, about 43 mil...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
Relaxation of capital controls and increased foreign trade help boost international use of the yuan
China Relaxation of capital controls and increased foreign trade help boost international use of the yuan SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, reports that in Janu...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2022
China makes targeted relaxes to capital outflows
China China makes targeted relaxes to capital outflows The Bond Connect programme that allows foreign institutional investors to invest via Hong Kong in mainland China interbank market has been in p...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2021
Reciprocal trade and global sharing of responsibility top the agenda of the EU-China summit
China Reciprocal trade and global sharing of responsibility top the agenda of the EU-China summit On Monday (Jun. 22), the EU and China held their annual summit via video. The EU’s tone has grown ha...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
Domestic production struggles to keep pace with growth in consumption of grain crops in China
China Domestic production struggles to keep pace with growth in consumption of grain crops in China Over the past two decades, consumption of key grain crops in China has risen from less than 400 mi...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2022
Rapid increase in indebtedness in China continues on many fronts
Rapid increase in indebtedness in China continues on many fronts China’s booming credit growth shows no signs of abating. The stock of yuan loans grew 13 % y-o-y in August. With slowing corporate inv...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2016
Russia’s government spending soars while war and sanctions caused various government sector revenue categories to tumble
#Russia Russia’s government spending soars while war and sanctions caused various government sector revenue categories to tumble Russia’s downward slides in the economy and imports since its delusio...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2023
BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2019-2021
Russia,China,forecast BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2019–2021 Russia Russia’s high growth last year was spurred by transient factors, and growth is expected to subside to lower levels this ye...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / BOFIT / News / 2019