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The blaze at SIF Transilvania started two months ago, around the General Shareholder meeting of April 28th, when the faction that gathered around the former football referee Constantin Frăţilă has prepared to overturn Mihai Fercală and his...

With few exceptions, the world's government have responded to the pandemic with a total quarantine. Medical experts claim that this has saved lives, economists claim that the measure has heavily affected the world's economy.

The blow dealt to Italy by the health crisis comes at a time when the country's economy and finance weren't exactly the most stable. Italy's public debt amounted to over 134% of its GDP at the end of last year, according to Reuters,...

• Not even the Wizard of Oz could solve the issue of government revenues and expenses 

The government has borrowed a record amount from the international markets, 3.3 billion Euros, in its attempt to keep its promise that there won't be...

• Bank of England bringing back discussions about negative interest on loans 

A world where banks will be paying us to borrow money from them doesn't seem so far from reality.

Prices are falling for things people aren't buying and rising for things that they are", US economist Robert Wenzel wrote after the release of official US inflation data.

After Romania was in a state of emergency for two months, Klaus Iohannis is following the European trend and starting today decides that we could go to the state of alert, in a first step towards returning to normal.

The scandal surrounding the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) has escalated to a pitch, lately. The protests in the insurance sector, as well as the chaos in the stock market come amid the lack of supervision, those involved say.

We are going through a period where, like never before, the non-banking financial markets are in turmoil and there are few people who remember April 30, 2013 when the Romanian Financial Oversight Authority was created.

The inability of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) to fulfill its role is now visible, without the need for specialized subtleties, because the chaos induced in the SIF market has reached the stage where it requires the intervention from...

The diagnosis does not need many validations and revalidations: Democracy, in its very home, in the Western space of of its creation and historical development, is suffering. It is in trouble. It is weak, where it should have excelled: the...

"We no longer have the limit of 3% budget deficit, but there is a natural limit to the loans that Romania can access - financing the deficit won't be easy", Popa says

• Cristian Popa: "The NBR is monitoring the liquidity in the...

• Rise of 4.63% for BET and of 6.75% in the case of BET-NG  

After two months of major index drops on the BSE, caused by the waves of selloffs that mimicked those on the international stock markets, amid the negative medium-term economic outlooks...

Laura Codruţa Kovesi, chief-prosecutor of the European Prosecutor's Office, has won in the European Court of Human Rights the lawsuit brought against the European Court of Human Rights, in the case of her illegal dismissal from the position...

The announcement by president Klaus Iohannis concerning the easing of the measures taken during the state of emergency, starting with May 15th, has created a general state state of expectation among the population, that quickly wants to return to...

• Dochia: "If stock market prices rise for two or three weeks, then the rise of gold will slow down"  

• Mitroi: "It's no longer the time to invest in gold, except extremely selectively and with very low amounts"

• ...

The crisis period we are going through shows a certain lack of trust in a series of international bodies, says Dan Paul, the president of the Brokers' Association, who said that in his opinion, the European Union will have a problem because...

The biggest challenge for the world right now is to find a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on avoiding new epidemic waves after social distancing measures are loosened, says Andre Cappon, founding president of CBM Group of New York.

Prior to the pandemic, one of the main concerns of the entire world was the military. According to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), last year, the biggest amount ever was spent globally, respectively 1.9...

SIF Banat-Crişana (SIF1), together with a series of investment funds which it finances to different degrees together with SIF Muntenia (SIF4), held at the end of 2019 approximately 26% of the equity of SIF4, whereas SIF Muntenia together with...

• That happens regardless of whether isolation measures are imposed or not 

Online publication of Times of Israel recently published the conclusions of a study by Isaac Ben-Israel, professor at the University of Tel Aviv and president of the...

Despite the conviction of El Lakis Najib and Dragoş Bîlteanu for the manipulation of the capital market and for using in ill-faith the goods and credit of the company, the expansion of SIF Banat Crişana that they have begun continues to be...

A negative price is an economic aberration, especially when it comes to one of the most important commodities and energy resources on a global level, just as negative interest is also an economic aberration.

BigOOgle Brother uses the information about the citizens' movements, according to a press release from Google, combines it into statistically relevant flows about what they do and offers it to decision makers to fight the Coronavirus...

1. To the Chinese and Japanese, the word "crisis" is expressed through two different symbols, which mean "danger" and, respectively, "chance/opportunity". If we have to face the danger, that doesn't prevent us from...

Reporter: What impact will the coronavirus pandemic have on the economies?

Daniel Dăianu:Just like everywhere in Europe the impact is extremely severe. I have doubts that there will actually be a V-shaped evolution of the...

Jesuit Catholic Jorge Mario Bergoglio, meaning Pope Francisc of Rome and the Ahmadite Muslim Imran Khan, Pakistani prime-minister have asked on one voice, on the same day of Sunday, for the debt of poor countries to be reduced.

• "Starting with July 1st, the prices of electricity for end users will depend on the competitive market"  

• "The state has not created a mechanism to support vulnerable customers"

• (Interview with Dan Schwartz, Managing Partner, RSM Romania SRL) 

Reporter: What is your view on the current economic situation?

Through its decision, "the Federal Reserve has clearly expressed that it won't tolerate prudent and responsible investments", wrote Scott Minerd, co-founder and investment director at Guggenheim Partners, after the Federal Reserve...

Extraordinary is no longer a word that is sufficient to describe what the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, has done or is doing to stop the propagation of the effects of the coronavirus epidemic, not just on the economy of the United States,...

The oil industry is seriously affected by the pricing war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, as well as by the very weak demand generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, factors which have led to the collapse in oil prices.

March 2020 has seen several firsts, the effects of which are already being felt in the economic environment. The coronavirus epidemic has already started being felt in the first days of March, when a large number of companies decided that their...

Victor Roncea: Professor, in your opinion, how is the COVID-19 crisis changing the world, geopolitically? What will companies do in the new context generated by the coronavirus?

Ilie Bădescu: I perceive that question as leading...

The Covid-19 pandemic is considered by most people first of all an economic crisis and only secondly a health crisis, recent studies quoted by the World Economic Forum state.

The national grid for the transport and distribution of electricity has gone through several stages of development, but the biggest began 70 years ago, with the creation of the company known today as Electromontaj SA.

Georgia, the "land of wolves" or that of Saint George, officially pledged to the Virgin Mary, with a multi-millennial culture and with an alphabet and language unique in the world, with anti-communist saints, such as Metropolitan Nazar,...

• "We believe that in 2020 the Romanian Government will give the green light to the 5G auction" 

• "We are considering the beginning of a road show, a mini-Mobile World Congress"

• "If you remove Huawei from the Romanian...

Attempts to form a government cannot be aimed at achieving a negative effect, namely the dissolution of Parliament, possibly followed by early elections.

(Interview with Radu Graţian Gheţea, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Libra Internet Bank and Honorary President of the Romanian Banking Association)