05.08.2015

Romania should continue its partnerships with international financial institutions, which ensure credibility and help lowering the country’s borrowing costs, central bank governor Mugur Isarescu more

05.08.2015

Romania’s central bank sees the inflation rate slowing down to zero by the end of 2015, but the consumer prices are expected to rise in the second half of next year, according to the latest more

05.06.2015

Romanian banks will have available for lending an additional 3 billion lei (EUR675 million) after the two-percentage point cut of the minimum reserve requirement ratio for leu deposits adopted by the more

05.06.2015

Romania’s central bank sees the inflation rate hovering around zero for the next three to four quarters, following the government’s decision to cut the value added tax rate for all food products more

05.04.2015

Romanian foreign exchange reserves fell by 505 million euros to EUR30.09 billion in April, from EUR30.6 billion in the previous month, central bank data showed Monday. more

04.27.2015

Romanian private lending continued its downward trend in March, after a 0.4% monthly decline in February, central bank data showed Monday. more

04.10.2015

Romanian foreign direct investment, or FDI, rose to 409 million euros in January to February, from EUR282 million in the same period of 2014, data from the central bank showed Friday. more

04.10.2015

Romania's current account balance posted a surplus of 285 million euros after the first two months, compared with EUR201 million in the same period a year ago, amid a larger goods and services more

04.01.2015

Romanian foreign exchange reserves rose by 117 million euros to EUR30.6 billion in March, from EUR30.48 billion in the previous month, central bank data showed Wednesday. more

03.31.2015

The monetary policy is not defined only by the key rate, but also includes the minimum requirement ratios and the interest rates for other facilities of the central bank, Romania’s central bank more

03.31.2015

Romania’s central bank on Tuesday lowered its main monetary policy rate by 25 basis points to a new record low of 2%, in a largely expected move, the sixth rate cut in the current reduction cycle more

03.30.2015

Romania’s central bank is likely to lower its main monetary policy rate by 25 basis points to a record low of 2% in its Tuesday board meeting, the last rate cut in the current cycle, according to a more

03.24.2015

Romanian private lending continued its downward trend in February, after a 0.7% monthly decline in January, central bank data showed Tuesday. more

03.16.2015

Romanian foreign direct investment, or FDI, rose to 299 million euros in January, from EUR244 million in the same month of 2014, data from the central bank showed Monday. more

03.16.2015

Romania's current account balance posted a surplus of 554 million euros in January, more than double compared with EUR252 million in the same month a year ago, central bank data showed Monday. more

03.02.2015

Romanian foreign exchange reserves fell by 113 million euros to EUR30.48 billion in February, from EUR30.59 billion in the previous month, central bank data showed Monday. more

02.24.2015

Romanian private lending went down in January, as banks continue to shed bad loans of their books, central bank data showed Tuesday. more

02.13.2015

Romania's current account balance posted a deficit of 696 million euros in 2014, compared with EUR1.17 billion a year earlier, mainly due to a wider services surplus and a narrower primary income more

02.11.2015

Banks in Romania registered a cumulated loss of RON8 billion during four of the last six years, as well as profit of RON0.9 billion and a net loss of RON7.1 billion during a two-year period, which more

02.04.2015

Romania’s central bank has lowered again its year-end projection of the inflation rate to 2.1% in 2015, from 2.2% seen previously, governor Mugur Isarescu told a news briefing Wednesday. more

02.04.2015

Romania’s central bank on Wednesday lowered its main monetary policy rate by 25 basis points to a new record low of 2.25%, in a largely expected move as the bank sees the inflation staying well more

02.02.2015

Romanian foreign exchange reserves fell by 1.62 billion euros to EUR30.59 billion in January, due to payments made for loans taken from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, central more

01.27.2015

Romanian private lending fell 3.9% in real terms during 2014, due to a significant decline in foreign currency credit, as lower interest rates and the leu depreciation brought on higher demand for more

01.13.2015

Romanian foreign direct investment, or FDI, stood at EUR2.12 billion after the first 11 months of 2014, after a high inflow in November, data from the central bank showed Tuesday. more

01.13.2015

Romania's current account balance posted a deficit of EUR302 million in the first eleven months of 2014, compared with EUR801 million in the year-earlier period, mainly due to a wider services surplus more