Opinions

July in financial markets: geopolitical tensions drive oil prices higher, tech sell-off shakes Asia

August 13, 2026

By Kārlis Mārtiņš Gulbis, Investment Analyst, Signet Bank. Whatever relief markets drew from June’s U.S.-Iran peace deal proved short lived. The truce collapsed on 8 July, and by mid-month Brent, [..]

Opinions

June in financial markets: a record quarter closes as Hawks Circle and Chips Slide

July 8, 2026

An opinion piece by Kārlis Martiņš Gulbis, Investment Analyst at Signet Bank. Following highly geopolitically volatile spring, a June 14 U.S.–Iran framework has seemingly reopened the Strait of Hormuz, dragging [..]

Opinions

May in financial markets: equity rally, new Nasdaq rules and a new fed chair

June 9, 2026

Authored by Kārlis Martiņš Gulbis, Investment Analyst at Signet Bank. May ended with a nine-week winning streak for the S&P 500, its longest weekly streak since December 2023, with the [..]

Latvia

Latvia borrows €1.25 billion from international financial markets

September 26, 2025

Latvia has borrowed €1.25 billion from international financial markets, according to information published by the Treasury. On Thursday, September 25, the Treasury issued 10-year Eurobonds on behalf of Latvia, raising [..]

Lithuania

Lithuania’s Siauliu Bankas places EUR 300 mln note issue in intl markets

August 30, 2024

Siauliu Bankas, one of Lithuania’s largest banks, has made its debut in the international debt capital markets with a 300-million-euro fixed-rate note issue. The bank said in a statement on [..]

Lithuania

Germany’s Commerzbank has serious intentions in Lithuania

August 10, 2024

The intentions of Commerzbank, one of the largest German banks, in Lithuania are “absolutely serious” and the bank should inform about them itself in the nearest future, Economy and Innovation [..]

Latvia

State might buy up to EUR 100 million worth of airBaltic shares – Aseradens

April 30, 2024

The Latvian state might purchase up to EUR 100 million worth of shares in airBaltic national carrier, Finance Minister Arvils Aseradens (New Unity) told reporters following the weekly coalition meeting [..]

Estonia

Committee clears crypto asset market bill for 1st reading

April 5, 2024

The finance committee of the Riigikogu on Thursday sent to the plenary for the first reading a bill on the crypto assets market, initiated by the government, which would make [..]

Estonia

Luminor chief economist: Estonian prices jumped past input costs in January

February 12, 2024

Explaining the causes of the fast rise in the prices of goods and services in January, Lenno Uuskula, chief economist at Luminor, used the term “menu costs” from Keynesian economics [..]

Estonia

High Euribor drives lumber prices in Estonia to lowest in years

January 1, 2024

Over the past year, all kinds of prices in Estonia have seen largely sharp increases – but lumber prices have halved. Behind this particular drop is the same factor troubling [..]

Latvia

Latvian annual inflation drops to 2.1% in October

November 9, 2023

In October 2023 Latvian consumer prices declined 0.4 percent from this past September as the annual inflation rate (October 2023 against October 2022) dropped to 2.1 percent from 3.3 percent [..]

Lithuania

Finance minister feels foreign banks’ interest in Lithuania

November 6, 2023

Lithuanian Finance Minister Gintare Skaiste says she feels the interest of foreign banks in the Lithuanian market, adding, however, the emergence of a new bank in the country may take [..]