The economic slowdown continues in Slovenia

Crédito y Caución have seen an increase in payment problems. Its important to be extra careful when dealing with the automotive industry, construction, ICT or metal manufacturing.
Madrid - 23-fev-2010

Slovenia’s export-driven economy experienced a significant downturn in 2009. The economic slowdown has meant rapidly increasing unemployment, expected to rise to 8.9% in 2009 (compared to 6.7% in 2008). The budget deficit is expected to reach 6.6% of GDP in 2009 and 7% of GDP in 2010, exceeding the EU-mandated limits for eurozone member states. However, in November 2009 the European Commission acknowledged that Slovenia’s budget deficit is a result of the crisis and has given the country until 2013 to cut its budget deficit to below 3% of GDP, to meet to the European Monetary Union target.

Domestic demand will weaken sharply in 2009 as businesses and households cut back on investments and consumption. Industrial output contracted 16.1% year-on-year in October 2009, as the recession in the eurozone slashed demand for Slovenian exports. Serious though that is, it is still an improvement on the contraction of 19.5% experienced in Q1 of 2009.

Massive state support for the banking sector

Slovenia’s financial industry has not escaped the economic crisis either. The banking sector has faced refinancing difficulties since the last quarter of 2008. Both foreign and domestic banks had borrowed abroad in recent years to finance a credit boom that outstripped the growth of domestic deposits. As a consequence, the total amount of short-term debt to be refinanced within a year has reached € 5.5 billion, about a sixth of Slovenian GDP, forcing banks to hold cash and restrict loans to both households and firms. But the government and the Bank of Slovenia took measures at the beginning of 2009 to support bank liquidity: the government used its higher credit rating to borrow €1 billion and deposited most of the proceeds in bank accounts. Household confidence in bank deposits has not been affected, thanks to the removal of the ceiling on the state guarantee for deposits.

Credito y Caución have seen an increase in reported payment problems, but still with no clear pattern emerging in any sectors. However, it is important to be extra careful when dealing with companies in the automotive industry, construction or construction materials, engineering, ICT, iron steel and metal manufacturing, textiles, timber and transport.

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