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country risk

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noun

  1. commerce the risk associated with an overseas investment due to the conditions prevailing in the country in which it is made

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“The perception of risk for vessels is very high at this point,” said Jack Kennedy, head of Middle East country risk at S&P Global Market Intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal

In Japan, the current Japanese government bond curve is no longer embedding any “country risk premium,” Goldman Sachs analysts said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal

Financing multibillion-dollar projects remains costly because of Argentina’s high country risk.

From The Wall Street Journal

On Wednesday Argentina’s country risk, as measured by J.P.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the January proposal for JACI, the rebalanced index sought to reduce "single country risk" and to "capture the entire Asia-Pacific region debt segment" and provide "better risk-adjusted returns with lower volatility", according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

From Reuters