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Investments in high-risk assets stabilize
Positive impact on individual investments in shares of Bulgarian public companies is coming from the upward price dynamics in the beginning of 2010 despite the lack of incentives from monetary or fiscal authorities. In this line of thoughts the stock exchange dynamics will be determined mainly by the attitude of external specula...
Housing prices in 2009
The decelerating negative growth rates probably signal that housing prices will hit the bottom in the coming months. 12 districts registered appreciation of housing in Q4 2009, although the number of districts with falling prices (17) still prevails. A closer look at the data, however, reveals that most of the cities with positi...
The outlook for the sovereign rating of Bulgaria
Hence, many of the initially skeptical foreign analysts have implicitly admitted their mistakes in determining the real economic and political challenges before the Bulgarian economy amidst a global financial meltdown. Exactly a year ago credit rating agencies were worried by the supposed inability of the Bulgarian economy to re...
Gold as Investment in the period 2000-2009
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One more reason why consumption decreased in 2009
Contribution to the decreasing consumption is made, however, by another, often overlooked reason – the so called wealth effect – the effect that the change in wealth has on consumption. Whereas financial wealth increased in 2009, although slowly, the value of housing, owned by households, declined substantially, this put pressur...
Interest rates and the credit expansion
In the banking system there is an ongoing process of substituting the limited access to external financing with domestic lending resource, which reasonably led to increasing costs of financial institutions to attract funds from residents. From time to time there are new suggestions for government intervention on the loanable fun...
The housing price decline from a global perspective
While such a comparison might provide useful information about the current state of housing markets around the world, it might also force misleading conclusions regarding future residential market developments. The real estate market in general is heavily dependent on macroeconomic fundamentals. Bulgaria is still lagging behind ...
Personal Assets in Bulgaria in Q3 2009
The growth potential of personal wealth is constrained by the stagnation on the labor market, visible through declining incomes and increasing unemployment, which will probably continue to pick up in 2010 as well. Nevertheless, there are existing factors, which stimulate the growth of wealth. In times of crisis households save, ...

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