11.14.2024

Erste Group, the owner of Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR), said in a report released on Thursday (Nov 14) that it had lowered its full-year economic growth forecast for Romania to 0.8%, down from its more

09.06.2024

BCR, the second largest bank in Romania, has revised its 2024 economic growth forecast for the country to 1.9% from 2.6%, as previously stated. The revision of the forecast is because of the mere 0.7% more

09.06.2024

ING Bank has decided on Friday (Sept 6) to revise its growth forecast for Romania's economy in 2024 to 1.3% from its previous estimate of 2% after Romania's statistics board INS released detailed data more

08.14.2024

ING Bank has decided on Wednesday (August 14) to revise its growth forecast for Romania's economy in 2024 to 2% from its previous estimate of 2.8%, a level that is still deemed optimistic. more

02.16.2024

The European Commission, in its Winter Forecast on February 15, revised downwards its forecast for Romania’s economic growth to 2.9% for 2024 and 3.2% for 2025, lower by 0.2 percentage points (pp) more

01.08.2024

iBanFirst analysts expect a slight depreciation trend for the Romanian leu (RON) versus the euro and dollar in the first quarter of 2024, amid weak growth of the Romanian economy. more

07.14.2022

Romania’s economy is expected to grow by 3.9% in 2022 and by 2.9% in 2023, the European Commission said in its summer economic forecast. more

07.07.2021

The European Commission expects Romania's economy to grow 7.4% this year and 4.9% in 2022, following better than expected first quarter performance. more

06.08.2021

Lender Banca Transilvania has revised Romania’s economic growth forecast up to 6% in 2021, the highest level since 2017, from a previous forecast of 5.4%. more

07.10.2019

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01.22.2019

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01.09.2019

The World Bank has revised its economic growth projections for Romania and now sees GDP growth at 3.5% in 2019 from 4.5% in its June 2018 projection. more

05.16.2018

Romania’s GDP only rose 4.2% in the first quarter compared with the first quarter of 2017, while analysts expected 5.4%. The economy is losing steam fast due to the rise in borrowing costs and a more

01.10.2018

The World Bank sees Romania's economy growing by 4.5% in 2018, 4.1% in 2019, and 3.5% in 2020, after an estimated growth of 6.4% in 2017, it said in its Global Economic Prospects report released more

11.09.2017

The European Commission has revised it's projections for Romania's economic growth to 5.7% this year from 4.3% previously, and to 4.4% in 2018 from 3.7% previously, according to its autumn economic more

10.11.2017

The International Monetary Fund has revised Romania's economic growth forecast to 5.5% this year and 4.4% next year from a previous 4.2% and 3.4%, respectively. more

12.06.2016

Garanti Bank forecasts a slowdown in Romania’s economic growth rate in 2017. Thus, the gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow up to 3.7% in 2017, in the context in which the evolution of more

07.07.2016

Romania’s economic growth will accelerate to 4.1% in 2016, but is likely to slow down to 3.1% in 2017, due, among others, to the dependence on imports and a slowdown in exports generated by more

04.28.2016

Romania’s economy is expected to grow 4.2% in 2016 and 4.3% in 2017, and its budget deficit is seen reaching 2.95% of GDP in 2016 and 2.9% of GDP in 2017, according to the 2016 convergence program more

09.18.2015

Romania's National Prognosis Commission has revised this year economic growth forecast up to 3.4% from a previous forecast of 3.3% and next year's GDP growth to 4.1% from 3.4%, the commission said in more

09.09.2015

The extended drought that announces a very bad agricultural year is making macroeconomists revise their 2015 growth forecasts downwards. more

06.11.2015

The World Bank slightly upgraded Romania’s economic growth forecast to 3% in 2015, from 2.9% seen previously, according to the latest World Economic Prospects report released Thursday. more

04.14.2015

Romania’s gross domestic product will grow 2.7% in 2015, according to the latest World Economic Outlook report issued Tuesday by the International Monetary Fund, which sees the local economy more

07.23.2013

The National Statistics Institute is set to announce the economic growth for the first half of the year in mid-August, but estimates have already appeared, suggesting GDP growth of between 1.8% and more

11.02.2011

The more significant economic growth in the third quarter, estimated at 3%, has been noticed especially by businesspeople working in the agricultural sector, in tourism and in exports, but not on the more