International Corporate Finance

Risk Assessment Reports by Country

Evaluating the risk of investing in a foreign country includes an examination of the financial markets, regulatory climate, and economic conditions.

FitchConnect
Extensive collection of country risk reports covering all financial markets (equity, fixed income, and forex) in over 70 countries. Also provides sovereign risk ratings reports.

COFACE Country Risk and Economic Research
COFACE risk assessment reports. Country short term ratings cover 165 countries. Sector reports give regional performance evaluations for 14 industries.

Factiva
Search the Economist Intelligence Unit's Risk Briefing. Available through Factiva.

Political and Other Risk Factors

Nexis Uni
Use Nexis Uni to find reports from the PRS Political Risk Service. Their Country Highlight Reports analyze how current political conditions might effect the country's economy.
Passport (Euromonitor)
Use the "Countries and Consumers" tab to find analysis, news and country surveys.

Commodity Prices

Commodity Markets
World Bank offers monthly world prices of commodities and commodity indexes along with forecasts of key prices and a review of commodity markets.
The CRB Commodity Yearbook
Chapters in this annual survey include prices and market conditions.
Reference at HF1041 .C56

FitchConnect
Financial market reports and industry profiles include coverage of commodities in 70 global markets.