General Description

CEEMarketWatch is a fully-integrated analytical network covering the emerging regions of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria and Warsaw, Poland it is produced online by a team of full-time professionals and qualified specialists.

Mission Statement

CEEMarketWatch is dedicated to providing superior-quality macroeconomic and political research and analyses on emerging markets.

Operational areas within CEEMarketWatch:

• Analytical services
• Analytical macroeconomic and political research
• Intraday updates on macroeconomic and political events
• Daily press reviews
• Interviews with policymakers and analysts

We employ natives or expatriates who have spent at least 5 years in the country to be able to rely on local experience and understanding.

Areas of Expertise

CEEMarketWatch has expertise in politics, macroeconomics, company research, telecommunications, energy, IT, defense and arms control in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. We offer superior quality and competitive prices in the following areas:
News writing: Using our extensive network of in-house editors and contributors we can deliver tailor-made news, features and analyses for your own editorial operation
Press reviews: Tailor-made press reviews and clipping services from 13 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and 10 countries in Middle East and Africa

Additional Services

FAQs:

Question: How do you view yourselves within the market?
Answer: CEEMarketWatch is a wire-type service with continuous updates throughout the day. We cover 13 emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe, from Turkey through the Balkans, Poland, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and ten countries in Middle East and Africa from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia to Nigeria and Ivory coast on the west and South Africa in the south . A full list is available on www.ceemarketwatch.com. Because we report mainly politics and macroeconomics, we are particularly valued by our clients in fixed income. But we also have equity analysts and traders, debt capital markets analysts, investment bankers reading us.

Question: Who is your target business audience?
Answer: Investment banks, funds, consulting companies, IFIs, multinationals, governments. Within the investment banks, it is mostly the fixed income research, sales and traders. We also sell to the equity and the capital markets departments.

Question: Why should we use your service, what are the advantages / disadvantages?
Answer:

• Local presence in all countries, good understanding of local politics and
• economics, good contacts with the local decision-makers
• Focused on reporting news relevant for the fixed income analysts and traders. We do mostly macro and politics
• Brief, concise, accurate and fast. Traders appreciate his.
• We often get proprietary information not reported by others. Our reports are not on the data aggregators. The only way to read us is to subscribe us directly.
• Good macroeconomic reporting skills. Our reporters are all macroeconomists by education
• We also organize trips of politicians to London to meet with our clients, and help clients with their meetings when they come over to the region.
• We are very open to queries by customers. You can hardly ask a big agency a question, but you can ask us, and we will do everything possible to answer.
• Because we speak the local languages, we often pick up bits and pieces that were not picked by the others

Question: What are your plans for the future?
Answer: Currently we are working to expand our coverage of Africa, including Israel and sub-Saharan Africa. We are also looking at possibilities to expand into LatAm.