11 dec 2012

For the stock market it matters little who won the elections and there are no shares which stand to gain or lose from the victory of the ruling coalition (the Social-Liberal Union, or USL) in more

3 dec 2012

The value of stock transactions conducted on the Bucharest bourse (BVB) fell by 27% in the first 11 months against the similar period of last year, to around RON7.28 billion (around EUR1.6 billion), more

8 nov 2012

The 27% decline of OMV Petrom’s (SNP.RO) third-quarter net profit led to a 3.6% decrease in the past two days of its stock on the Bucharest exchange, erasing EUR185 million from the market value of more

5 nov 2012

Investors’ darlings--Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), the regional investment funds (SIF) and Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO)--generated significant yields ten months into the year, more

1 nov 2012

Wood&Company climbed to the top of the Bucharest Stock Exchange brokerage firms’ ranking for the first time in October, after ING Bank’s departure, but the traded value reached the past two more

26 oct 2012

The delay of the sale of 15% in gas transmission company Transgaz Medias (TGN.RO) by the government via a public offering on the stock market has driven the share price below the price of its initial more

25 oct 2012

The shares of regional investment fund SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) have performed better than the other four SIFs, both in terms of growth and traded value. more

25 oct 2012

Boasting a rise of 14.7% since the beginning of the year, gold has been one of the most profitable investments, with the gains that it offers substantially exceeding interest rates on bank deposits more

23 oct 2012

Someone who had invested the equivalent of a Dacia car (5,600 lei) in SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO) shares when the company was listed on the stock exchange on November 1 1999, would have made RON500,000 in more

19 oct 2012

The bond issue launched by natural gas distributor GDF Suez Energy Romania provides the first official indications as to the costs of leu-denominated financing for companies. more

15 oct 2012

The capital market got its image tarnished by the scandal of the fugitive broker Cristian Sima, even though neither the securities market watchdog CNVM, nor the Bucharest Stock Exchange, nor the local more

12 oct 2012

Cristian Sima, former general manager of Romania’s monetary and commodities exchange Sibex in Sibiu (center of the country), has been missing for two weeks. more

11 oct 2012

U.S. company Franklin Templeton could end its mandate as manager of the EUR2.5 billion funds of Romanian investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) after the Bucharest Court of Appeals irrevocably more

5 oct 2012

Why aren’t OMV Petrom’s (SNP.RO) shares rising, while the company posts record-high profits? Why have BRD’s (BRD.RO) shares fallen so much, while the shares of other banks rose? The explanation more

3 oct 2012

The exit of ING’s brokerage firm highlights the disaster on the Romanian capital market, where more than one quarter of the brokerage firms have closed in the last four years. The lack of new more

2 oct 2012

The Bucharest Stock Exchange is left without one of its largest brokers after ING announced on Monday it is shutting down brokerage operations on several markets. Competition is not happy about this more

28 sep 2012

In September 2010, when Franklin Templeton got the management of Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), the fund was not listed but its shares were trading for 0.5 to 0.6 lei (EUR0.11-EUR0.13). Now they are more

24 sep 2012

“Is there anything more? There’s nothing more,” Remus Vulpescu, head of the Economy Ministry's privatization office OPSPI, said Friday after opening the envelope containing the offer of Dan more

19 sep 2012

The dramatic situation that Romania’s largest chemical plant, Oltchim Ramnicu Valcea (OLT.RO) is the direct responsibility of the 33 members of the Board of Directors who have alternated at helm of more

14 sep 2012

U.S. funds keep buying into Petrom and in Romanian investment fund Fondul Proprietatea, the most valuable companies on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, while other investors are fleeing the market, at a more

13 sep 2012

The pension funds managed by ING currently own 5% in automotive component maker Compa Sibiu (CMP.RO), one of the companies on the stock market with a significant increase in financial results over the more

29 aug 2012

“What good is the Romanian stock exchange?” is the natural question that anyone asks after Tuesday’s trading session, when over the course of seven hours, stocks worth just EUR1 million were more

13 aug 2012

Half of the 32 listed companies that have so far published their first-half financial results reported a higher turnover, while the other half had lower sales. more

2 aug 2012

Brokerage firm Swiss Capital run by Bogdan Juravle brokered 494 million (EUR108 million) worth of stock transactions in July, 46% of the total transactions on the stock market last month. more

31 iul 2012

The revenue of the brokerage firms dropped to one third of the 2007 level last year, while asset managers’ rose 2.4 times. The 21 asset managers collected 96 million lei (EUR21 million) compared more