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The "Honda Marine" model has officially entered the Romanian market, through "HIT Power Motor", importer for Romania and the Republic of Moldova.

Over 100 million Euros have left from the accounts of the former Petromservice (currently called PSV Company), controlled by unionist Liviu Luca and businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu, to several companies registered in tax havens.

The net profit of Banca Transilvania reached 69.7 million lei, after the first nine months of the year, or a 44% increase YOY, according to a press release by the institution.

Romania has already missed out on 30 million Euros from the World Bank, because it did not pass the controversial draft bill which would establish the financial and political autonomy of the Romanian National Securities Commission (CNVM), the...

The Boc government remains in place, after the Parliament voted against the motion to suspend the Government.

Poland has raised the price range for the IPO of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), Bloomberg reports, as quoted by Agerpres.

The team of Bursa has made another set of rivals happy in the Press Football Championship.

The next episode in the political struggle is today"s union protests, to put pressure on the Parliament, at the time of the vote on the motion of no-confidence, by which the opposition is trying - but without the ghost of a chance - to sway a...

In Q3 2010, brokerage firm "Intercapital Invest" intermediated trades with shares and mutual fund units worth 98.3 million lei, compared to 154.2 million lei in Q3 2009, according to a press release.

"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.

An eventual increase of the contribution paid by brokerage firms to the Investor Compensation Fund (FCI), which is being discussed on a European level, could bring to their knees some of the small and medium sized domestic brokerage firms, which...

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.