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"LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton" SA (LVMH), the world"s largest luxury item maker (in terms of turnover), acquired 17.1% of "Hermes International" SCA. LVMH acquired 15 million shares of "Hermes" (14.2% of the...

The issue of the buildings in which the major union groups are located is to be settled today in the Parliament, in the day preceding the largest union protest of the last ten years.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Iaşi (CCI) has published the list of the top performing companies of the county of Iaşi in the year 2009. In the 17th edition of the chart of the chart of companies of Iaşi, "E.ON Moldova...

The crisis hasn"t affected bankers" compensation, as the monthly salaries remained steady, and only the variable part suffered major changes.

The leu posted significant gains, in the second half of Friday"s interbank trading session, and the exchange rate dropped below 4.3 lei/Euro, from 4.32 lei/Euro in the beginning of the session, due to the selling of Euros.

Romania"s perceived risk reflected in the quotations of CDSs (Credit Default Swaps) started rising, and it depends largely on the visit of the IMF, whereas the reverse is happening in the other countries in the region.

Just like every year, at the time when grape juice turns into wine, the Council of the County of Vrancea is hosting in Focşani, the Festival of Vine and Winemaking "Bachus" 2010".

The fifth edition of the Wine Waiting Award "Halewood Wine Cellars" will be held between December 6th and December 9th, at the "Aro Palace" hotel of Braşov.

Ioana Maria Vlas says she left the country out of fear.

The BSE has decided to shut down the OTC market which the Board of the Central Depository had launched just one month ago, as the representatives of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) voted yesterday, at the meeting of the Board of Directors of...

Bursa"s team continues to score decisively in the Press Football Championship.

Stock market investors are unhappy with the way the Government wants to tax their capital gains, and they have negotiated a modification of the part of the amendment to the Fiscal Code proposed by the government, which concerns the taxation of...

In just three days, "The news factory" became the most unfortunately chosen title that anyone could have come up with for a show of "Realitatea" TV.

The Board of Directors of the BSE has scheduled a meeting for today, on the same day as the elections for the Central Depository, meaning they"re getting so busy that it becomes a problem to meet all the items on their schedule.

An "over-the-counter" trade of 100,000 shares of SIF "Oltenia" was reported yesterday on the website of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, but a few minutes later, the report was deleted as if the trade had never happened.

"International Business Machines" Corp. (IBM), the world"s largest provider of IT services, has seen its profit increase 12% in Q3 2010, to 3.59 billion dollars.

The domestic healthcare system is in terrible pain. This is something that outsiders and insiders agree on. The education system is collapsing.

The financial methods used by Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu, one of the largest Romanian users of tax havens, were mimicked by the heads of his Realitatea TV trust.

On Saturday night, we put up a scenario on our website, in which we imagined Traian Băsescu reacting to the threat to overthrow his regime, a threat which sees his political opposition, the unions and the mass-media coming together, by revealing...

The three associates that were still left in the notorious "Desintco" company - after Mircea Băsescu, the brother of Romanian president Traian Băsescu, and the daughter of Aurel Cazacu, former chief of the Military Industry Department of...

Registrations of Dacia vehicles in Europe increased 12.5% in the January-September 2010 period, compared to last year, from 196,305 units to 174,469 units, according to data published by the European Automobile Manufacturers" Association (ACEA).

The Romanian National Securities Commission yesterday shot down the argumentation of the general manager of the BSE, Valentin Ionescu, who, as written in Friday"s edition of "BURSA", claimed that the "Rasdaq" market had not...

It seems the die has been cast for "Flamingo International": the bankruptcy trustee failed to find any alternative to declaring the company"s bankruptcy.

There are businesses that remained successful during the crisis, standing on the delicate shoulders of children.

Foreign analysts see the protests of the employees of the Ministry of Finance as another blow to Romania"s image, and they have already begun making pessimistic forecasts.

Vladimir Cojocaru, the head of the General Supervisory Division of the Romanian National Securities Commission (CNVM), recently left the position it held for the last five years.

The Romanian National Securities Commission (CNVM) has fined two of the managers of "Target Capital" with 1,000 lei each, following an investigation performed in June 2010.

"Altex" Romania has increased its share capital by 37.5 million lei, to 73.6 million lei, by converting a debt it had towards its Dutch shareholder Bomenveld BV.

Public sector workers are taking their protests from the street, to the hallways of their workplaces, just six days before the mission of the IMF returns to Bucharest to assess the state of Romania"s economy.

"Orange" has announced the launch of three new phones based on Microsoft"s latest platform - "Windows Phone 7".

Three foreign banks are considering pulling out of Hungary due to the government"s financial sector windfall tax, daily Nepszava reported on Tuesday, without specifying the sources of this information.

Milling and bakery company "Titan" announces that on October 18th, it will open a factory which will produce buns for "McDonald"s" restaurants in Romania and Bulgaria. The plant will be located on the "Titan" Platform.

The Romanian state has 18 months available to draft the legislation for compensating property owners whose assets were seized by the communist regime, according to a pilot-decision published yesterday on the website of the European Court for...

Agricultural commodities seem to be gaining favor with investors, as their prices continue to rise, following this summer"s drought, which lowered the grain output of the Russian Federation and of Kazakhstan, a rise which was fueled further...

The shareholders of "ArcelorMittal" Hunedoara subscribed shares worth 349.5 million lei as part of the share capital increase, below the amount approved in July, of 397.6 million lei.

"Erste Bank" Austria, one of the largest lenders in Eastern Europe, warned the Budapest government that excessive taxation of banks will limit their local investments.

Over 300,000 investors had over 5.35 billion lei invested in mutual funds at the end of September, most of them opting for low risk funds, according to statistics of the Association of Fund Managers (AAF).

Companies that have debts they need to recover from the state may be able to use these debts as collateral for securing bank loans.

The same character of the ad promoting the revamped ROM chocolate bar wrapped in the American flag, under the pretense that the Romanian spirit is obsolete, appears in a new clip, tasked with the mission to convince us that the previous ad was...