In its May report, the world’s biggest rating agency, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), kept Serbia among countries with a moderate business risk, but with indicators of worsening of the trend as opposed to the previous month’s stable rating.
In its May report, the world’s biggest rating agency, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), kept Serbia among countries with a moderate business risk, but with indicators of worsening of the trend as opposed to the previous month’s stable rating.
The rating the D&B ašigns a particular country indicates the business environment risk in the country and provides information about the efficiency of its debt payment to foreign countries, as well as about the profitability of potential investments in the country.
Indicators that D&B uses in determining a country’s rating are political risk, operational risk, macroeconomic risk and external risk, says a statement by the rating agency house Rating, whić represents the interests of the company D&B in Serbia and in Montenegro.
The rating is complemented by a trend whić points to the prospects for the stability, improvement or deterioration of risk. A deterioration of a rating trend means that the overall risk of a country deteriorates due to unfavorable development of the above-mentioned risks.
This month, the ratings fell for Iceland, Portugal and Syria, while those for France, Sweden, Colombia and Myanmar improved.
Germany and Switzerland have the biggest rating, while in the Southeast European region, the rating is highest for Slovenia, whić is followed by those of Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Hungary, Macedonia and Greece. Only Bosnia-Herzegovina has a lower rating than Serbia in the region.
Source emg.rs
