SLOVENIJA

More than 900,000 use online banking in Slovenia

Faster and cheaper than going to one's bank, online banking has been constantly growing in Slovenia, reaching 914,048 individuals at the end of September.
Source: STA

New record as car sales up 3% in 2018

Slovenians have not lost their appetite for petrol power as they bought a record 85,544 new cars and vans in 2018, an increase of 3% over the year before. Electric car sales surged, but they remain modest.
Source: STA

Alfi fund becomes single biggest creditor of Tuš

The NLB bank has sold its claims to retailer Tuš to the financial fund Alfi, which has thus become the biggest creditor of the Celje-based company and now holds claims nominally worth over EUR 90m, or more than one-third of total claims.
Source: STA

INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

Week Ahead

This week FOMC minutes will be keenly watched, alongside US inflation, ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI, trade balance and factory orders; UK monthly GDP, industrial output and foreign trade; ECB meeting accounts; Eurozone business survey, retail trade and jobless rate; Germany factory orders, industrial production and trade balance; China inflation and producer prices; Japan consumer confidence; and Australia business morale. Investors will also react to US-China trade talks. It will be a busy week in the US as investors turn focus to the FOMC minutes release for further clues about the Fed's monetary policy path. In addition, the highly anticipated consumer price index report for December will probably show a decline in inflation to 1.9 percent from November's 2.2 percent on lower energy prices, while the core inflation is set to remain unchanged at 2.2 percent. The ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI is likely to point to a slowdown in the service sector during December; while the Census Bureau is set to publish trade balance, factory orders, construction spending, new home sales, and wholesale inventories, which may be postponed due to the ongoing partial government shutdown. Other important data include JOLTs job openings, consumer credit change, NFIB Business Optimism Index, and the government's monthly budget statement.
Source: TA

SERBIA

Belex is closed due to the Serbian orthodox Christmas

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