Hi everybody. This is my first post on the forum, looking forward to some good conversation !

I'm interested in finding out where's the best place to go online to get economic news and market reports from Serbia ? Preferrably in English as my Serbian is of an intermediate standard at best. However, if the best options are in Serbian then I would like to know about those too.

Thanks !

For the beginning you can start by searching this page: http://www.wire.seenews.com/. It contains a lot of good news from Serbian stock market, even for us, native Serbians.
And: http://www.belex.rs/eng/trgovanje/dnevni/vbt/akcije

Is there a good news-reporting site which shares it's information for free?

I've managed to find a couple of decent free ones myself.

http://www.emportal.rs/en/
http://www.seebiz.eu/sr/

The second site is better in Serbian, but still has plenty of good news and reporting in English language.

http://seenews.com/

same as the one posted previously but here, the news are free

Here at East Capital, we usually refer to southeastern Europe as the last serious convergence case. This region includes the western Balkans, but also existing EU members Romania and Bulgaria, and EU candidate, Turkey. When we say “convergence case,” we mean countries that stand to gain economically from the process of entering EU, due to the reforms and investments this will bring. And we can add to that the fact that the initial years of membership usually provide a strong financial impetus. History has given us several examples of this, primarily Spain, Ireland and the Eastern European countries that joined in 2004.

We remain hopeful however, for a positive development for this region. And the best exposure to this region is to be found in our Balkan fund and our special product, Bering Balkan. Another reason for investments with a long-term perspective in these funds is the fact that these markets have not recovered from the crisis in line with the rest of the world (see the table below, showing stock market developments), and that they also have low valuations.

Turkey Slovenia Austria Croatia Greece Serbia Romania Bulgaria
YTD 91% 10% 41% 15% 24% 13% 60% 18%
From 2009 Low 123% 19% 75% 57% 51% 81% 146% 63%
From Peak -12% -67% -50% -63% -62% -81% -57% -78%

The first month of the year was a rather interesting one in Eastern Europe as the Baltic markets saw very strong renewed interest on the back of better than expected economic performance and an increased conviction that Estonia will get the green light for Euro adoption during the spring.

The Estonian market gained an incredible 40.4% in January. The performance in neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania was more modest but nevertheless impressive,13.7% and 16.9% respectively, making the Baltics some of the best markets in the world in January. Two other nonindex markets, Ukraine and Croatia, also had a good start of the year gaining 10.5% and 8% respectively. The large Turkish and Russian markets continued with positive performance gaining 7% and 3.3% respectively since the end of last year. A number of Central and Southeastern European markets underperformed and dropped a few percent.
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The Serbian market also managed to show a mild gain of 0.4%. Other markets were affected by an increased risk aversion given the turbulence in Greece and within the Euro Zone in general. Although most Eastern European countries have a much more solid debt situation, these markets also fell, along with most exchanges worldwide, due to the negative market sentiment. Estonia and the other Baltic markets were hit the hardest, which is also a reaction to the very strong performance in January.

The Turkish market fell signifi cantly, partly due to the increased political turbulence. Other large markets, such as the Russian and Polish, developed in line with the region with a decline of 5.7% and 5.2% respectively.

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