03.01.2016

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02.18.2016

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02.10.2016

Romania is getting capital inflows, which will only boost liquidity in the banking system even further, causing interest rates to drop. However, Romania’s central bank governor Mugur Isarescu, who more

02.09.2016

Negative interest rates have become some kind of dominoes of the central bank elite where if one piece falls, the other do. more

02.08.2016

The Romanian leu gained ground versus the euro by midday Monday and the central bank’s reference rose 0.56% to 4.4763 units, breaking below 4.5 units per euro for the first time since mid-December. more

02.05.2016

The Romanian central bank Friday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at 1.75% a year, the bank said in a statement. more

02.03.2016

Romania’s central bank may keep its monetary policy rate at 1.75% at the upcoming meeting on February 5, a survey from the Association of Romanian Financial and Banking Analysts (AAFBR) showed. more

01.14.2016

The leu/euro exchange rate should remain stable this year, with a clear trend to gain ground against the euro, as Romania’s central bank might pursue a more predictable policy and less volatile more

01.12.2016

The employee absenteeism rate in Romania for 2015, reflecting the percentage of days of absence out of the total working days in a year, reached 2.2% in 2015, a slight decrease compared to 2.4% in more

01.07.2016

The Romanian central bank Thursday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at 1.75% a year but lowered minimum reserve requirement ratios for foreign currency deposits to 12% from 14%. more

01.07.2016

The year 2016 came with a first for the post-communist interbank market in Romania: the three-month ROBOR, used as a reference for the cost of leu loans fell to the all-time low of 0.98% per annum on more

01.05.2016

Most analysts expect Romania’s central bank (BNR) to keep the key rate at the all-time low of 1.75% this year, but signs of economy overheating and inflation returning to positive territory might more

12.29.2015

The Romanian leu lost ground versus the euro by midday Tuesday and the central bank set the leu’s reference rate versus the euro at 4.5381 units, down 0.27% from the previous day and the lowest rate more

12.10.2015

Romania’s European Funds absorption rate for the 2007 – 2013 program currently stands at 60%, EU Funds Minister Aura Raducu said Thursday, adding she is hoping the rate will reach 70%. more

12.10.2015

The Romanian leu lost ground versus the euro by midday Thursday and the central bank set the leu’s reference rate versus the euro at 4.5025 units, down 0.34% from 4.4873 the previous day and the more

12.07.2015

The fiscal relaxation and the economic growth may cause Romania’s central bank to increase its main monetary policy rate in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to analysts of Austria’s Erste more

11.09.2015

Romania's central bank may ease the key lending rate or minimum reserve requirement ratios further but the decision is influenced by domestic and external uncertainties, central bank governor Mugur more

11.04.2015

The Romanian leu lost ground versus the euro by midday Wednesday and the central bank set the leu’s reference rate versus the euro at 4.4462 units, down 0.32% from 4.4318 the previous day and the more

10.16.2015

Romania registered the second lowest annual inflation rate in the European Union in September 2015, of -1.5%, and seventeen of the 28 Member States saw negative annual rates in September this year, more

10.02.2015

After a sluggish September, the Bucharest Stock Exchange appears to be volatile in the fourth quarter on low traded volumes. Investors expect central banks to decide where they want interests to be, more

09.30.2015

The Romanian central bank Wednesday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at 1.75% a year, in line with analysts' expectations. more

09.02.2015

Romania’s European Union fund absorption rate is expected to reach nearly 70% at the end of 2015, EU funds Minister Marius Nica said Wednesday, adding the rate is likely to reach 75-78%, based on more

08.25.2015

Romanians spent around 7 billion lei (nearly EUR1.6 billion) on garments and shoes in 2014, while in 2015, the garments and shoes market is expected to grow 4.5%, at the highest pace since 2008, more

08.04.2015

The Romanian central bank Tuesday kept its main monetary policy lending rate unchanged at 1.75% per year in a widely expected move, as policymakers still expect the final version of the fiscal more

07.09.2015

Romania’s European Union fund absorption rate sets at only 51% in June, six months before the end of the reference period 2007 – 2013. This is the lowest absorption rate among European Union more