04.04.2013

The shares of the five regional investment funds (SIF) have generated a 240% average yield in the last four years, considering both the increase in shares’ price and the dividends paid. more

04.04.2013

Analysts believe the Romanian economy will remain on the rise in the first quarter of this year and keep their estimates for 2013 gross domestic product, but signals from the economy are less more

12.28.2012

A number of 1,250 companies had a cumulated turnover of over EUR118 billion in 2011, accounting for around 50% of the overall EUR226 billion turnover of all companies in Romania, shows an analysis more

12.25.2012

For the healthcare sector, 2012 is the year with two law drafts subjected to public debate without any of them being implemented. It was also the year with five different health ministers. At the same more

12.25.2012

Over 50 transactions were sealed in 2012 worth over EUR1.3 billion, according to a ZF analysis based on data announced by companies and on ZF estimates. more

12.07.2012

Automotive News, one of the world’s most prestigious car news publications, dedicated the cover story of its December Global Monthly supplement to an analysis of the Dacia brand, naming the Romanian more

10.02.2012

Romania could prevent recession in the second half of 2012 and meet the budget deficit target of 2.2% of the gross domestic product GDP only through a boost of foreign demand, considering the poor more

09.03.2012

The shares of four of the five regional investment companies SIFs and of Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) in August brought investors gains ranging between 9% and 13% although the month was one of the more

05.14.2012

The leu depreciated on Friday to a historic low, only to fall to a fresh low of 4.437 per euro on Monday and Romanians with installments to pay in euros are looking fearfully at the rates displayed by more

01.20.2012

Romanians have lost their confidence in the economy and about their future in the Eastern European country, statistics show: only 105,000 marriages were registered in 2011, almost half of the 189,200 more

01.17.2012

The modicum of stability and good image that Romania boasts in investors’ eyes, which it strove hard to achieve through tough austerity measures and by being the IMF’s diligent student, could more

01.10.2012

Clients of private pension funds would have earned twice as much if they had they placed their money in banks. more

12.30.2011

The Bucharest bourse returned this year to the level seen in the final quarter of 2009, once again influenced by foreign markets, but brokers expect a comeback in the second half of 2012, as long as more

12.29.2011

Foreign direct investment (FDI) plummeted in 2011, as Romania was not really attractive to non-residents despite the return of its economy to positive territory. Signals for 2012 are not that more

11.30.2011

The local retail market, which had a little over 88,000 stores at the end of last year, has lost some 6,500 stores over the past four years in traditional retail alone. Although communist-era kiosks more

11.08.2011

Petrom (SNP.RO), the largest Romanian company, could post 780 million lei (EUR179.4 million) profit in the third quarter, analysts estimate. more

09.05.2011

Once the Romanian state uses up the stake it has left in Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) on compensations, which is expected to happen by yearend, the influence of the Fund’s manager, U.S. group more

08.12.2011

The volatility of the global financial markets has contaminated people in the local business world. While academics call for more investments, businesspeople are afraid of more expensive lending and more

08.12.2011

Skoda Octavia was in the first half of this year the car with the highest sales in Romania, according to a ZF analysis based on data from the Association of Car Producers and Importers (APIA). more

07.12.2011

With a 9.4 million-hectare farming area, Romania has a 175,000-tractor fleet, while Poland, with 14 million hectares, has 1.5 million operational tractors, UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization more

07.11.2011

The average net salary in Romania’s capital Bucharest is higher than in cities like Iasi, Timisoara and Cluj-Napoca, but the cost of living in all these cities is similar, according to a study of more

06.22.2011

The short-term foreign debt (the amounts borrowed from abroad by the state, banks and private companies that need to be paid back over the next 12 months), which was the main vulnerability that sent more

06.21.2011

Car sales rose by 15% month-on-month in May, to almost 9,700 units, but the auto market is still weaker than in May 2010, posting the third consecutive month of decline after the positive signs of more

06.09.2011

Cement sales are slowly returning to growth after the steep declines in previous years, but producers refrain from an upbeat tone. more

06.06.2011

The Romanian steel industry saw a spectacular recovery in 2010, as most European countries exited recession, fueled by orders from the auto industry, while the construction and shipbuilding industries more