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Central Europe has muted reaction to QE tapering delay

The reaction of the financial markets in Central Europe to the US Fed’s decision to hold off tapering QE was decidedly muted. But these countries’ markets didn’t suffer the large sell-offs seen elsewhere in the emerging world last month. Looking ahead, we’re relatively upbeat on the outlook for financial markets here, whereas we’re fairly downbeat on the prospects for Russia and Turkey.

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