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Investment performance can vary greatly depending on the time period in which they are held. While stocks and gold have delivered solid returns in recent years, bonds and some alternative assets have lagged, especially in the post-pandemic era of...

The S&P 500 Index posted its third consecutive year of gains of at least 15% in 2025, driven largely by specific sectors that performed well - particularly those related to artificial intelligence and hyperscale data centers, according to an...

The capital market in the Russian Federation ends 2025 in a state of collective frustration, with a mixture of dashed hopes, postponed promises and a reality that refuted almost all the optimistic scenarios built at the beginning of the year,...

Without suspecting it, I made the hosts of my last vacation suspicious. Fortunately, it's not just first impressions that count!

The increase in taxation of gains from stock market transactions, the increase in the tax on gains resulting from cryptocurrency transactions, the increase in the housing tax, the reform of the retirement system for magistrates, the increase in...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) indices reached new historical records last month, following developments that were clearly superior to the major international markets, which suggests that the fiscal-budgetary correction measures announced by...

The return to the liberalized electricity market should not be recorded as a shock for consumers, especially since the state will continue to support vulnerable consumers and especially since not all bills will register increases, according to...

Investors who want to buy Fidelis government bonds that will be listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) can do so starting today and until July 11, according to recent announcements by the Ministry of Finance.

For the sustainability of public debt, given that the budget deficit reached 9.3% of Gross Domestic Product last year, a massive fiscal adjustment is necessary, i.e. a drastic reduction in public spending and better collection of revenues to the...

Member state representatives in the Council of the European Union approved on Friday the extension of the natural gas storage rules for another two years, according to a press release issued by the Brussels institution.

The disappearance of the Dacian treasure, following a burglary on the last day it was still on display at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, represents the main event of the first month of 2025, despite the Government's attempts to keep...

This year should be favorable for crypto prices, according to most analysts, who estimate that global liquidity will increase, leading to higher capital allocations into risky assets, while the "Donald Trump factor" changes the rules of...

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Dorin Recean, yesterday asked the Parliament in Chisinau to declare a state of emergency in the energy sector for a period of 60 days. The decision comes against the background of the risk of ceasing...

European natural gas benchmarks rose for a second straight session on Thursday, with the weather forecast calling for cooler temperatures in many parts of the continent, Bloomberg reported, according to Agerpres.

SevenX Ventures, an investment vehicle controlled by Iulian Cîrciumaru, has lent Holde Agri Invest three million lei, according to a report by the agricultural land operator in our country, published on the website of the Bucharest Stock Exchange...

The "red wave in the United States", where Donald Trump won the presidency and the Republicans obtained total control of Congress, fueled the growth of the price of Bitcoin, which yesterday hit $80,000 for the first time in history, but...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), the operator of our capital market, achieved a consolidated net profit of 10.4 million lei in the first nine months of the year, 52% below that of the same period last year, while operating revenues were 57.3...

The national economy will register an economic growth between 1.2 and 1.8% at the end of 2024, much lower than the one announced by the Government, of 2.8%, based on the data provided by the National Strategy and Forecasting Commission , said...

The first month of autumn brought a series of economic and financial challenges for our country, especially in the context of a growing budget deficit, high inflation and volatility of energy prices. However, the Ciolacu government continued to...

The authorities in Bucharest intend to ask for compensation from the European Commission, due to the significant differences in energy prices between Eastern and Western Europe, the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, said yesterday, during...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu does not have a plan, not even one copied from the Simion Plan or inspired by the Kamala Harris Plan, for the development of our country in the coming years, but only now is he trying to bury it by appealing to...

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The Board of Directors of the National Bank of Romania decided on Friday July 5, 2024 decrease in the monetary policy interest rate to 6.75% per annum, from 7% per annum, starting from July 8, 2024, decrease in the interest rate for the credit...

The central authorities in Bucharest received 1.09 billion euros from the European Union, through the Modernization Fund, for the financing of contracts for difference (CfD), through which the price of electricity will be fixed for a period of 15...

Investors in bonds issued by Alser Forest SA, a company that recently entered insolvency, accuse that Albert Şerban, the majority shareholder of the company, intentionally led the company into insolvency in order not to return the borrowed money....

The energy transition appears to be at a standstill as member states need total investments in transmission and distribution networks of euro800 billion by 2030 according to a study by the Energy Round Table, a body made up of the main energy...

Romanian agri-food products in stores will have a capped addition of a maximum of 20%, according to a bill initiated by Florin Barbu, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The shareholders of Mecanică Fină were summoned, at the beginning of November last year, to approve the change of the company's main object of activity from "Manufacturing of instruments and devices for measurement, verification, control,...

Some commercial banks still lack a strong appetite for negotiating credit contracts, said Alexandru Păunescu, the representative of the National Bank of Romania in the Steering Committee of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Center in the Banking...

The year 2024 started badly in Europe with farmers and transporters protesting. In Romania, we also have threats of strikes by employees from the various public sectors, dissatisfied with salary incomes, the last in line being those from the town...

Reporter: Barring completely unforeseen events, what are your expectations for the returns of equity and bond funds this year? On what grounds do you base your opinions?

The real estate developer Qualis Properties from Braşov postpones the payment of the last coupon and the return of the principal of a bond issue worth almost 2.1 million euros, listed on the Multilateral Trading System of the Bucharest Stock...

After one of the most difficult years for investors in the last century, in which stocks and bonds suffered double-digit declines, in 2023 the two asset classes had a comeback. The evolution was supported by the robustness shown by the United...

The National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) fined three electricity suppliers with almost 18 million lei and sanctioned two others with a warning, because they purchased through the Centralized Electric Energy Purchase Mechanism (MACEE) a...

The Federal Reserve's shift in rhetoric toward looser monetary policy is bringing the prospect of new record highs for U.S. stocks, even as some investors fear the market may be rising too quickly, given uncertainties about the economy and...