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Investors shouldn"t overlook pharmaceutical stocks when building their portfolios, as the former have good prospects in the medium and long term, brokers say.

The feisty president of the Sibiu Exchange, Teodor Ancuţa took everyone by surprise yesterday, with the following statement made at a seminar about the "Rasdaq" market, organized by the Bucharest Stock Exchange:

The recent announcements concerning the ratings cut for some of the European countries will have significant indirect effects on the region, as they could affect its financial stability, according to an analysis by the International Monetary...

The Romanian politicians had a predictable reaction to the flurry of Wikileaks cables.

The American Embassy doesn"t seem to take much interest in the Romanian stock market. The only report on the subject (and a pretty boring one at that), out of the thousands of pages revealed by "Wikileaks", only mentions a single...

"Stem Sure", a representative office of "StemCare", the largest bank of stem cells in the Scandinavian region, is a Romanian-Danish joint-venture. In the fourth quarter of 2010, "Stem Sure" performed approximately 350 stem...

Copper will lead a rally in base metals this year as increased consumption in China reduces inventories and higher prices encourage stockpiling, according to British research company Brook Hunt.

Thunder and lightning struck the capital market watchdog, the Romanian National Securities Commission, after it decided on March 17th (perhaps during a moment of heavenly bliss) that only agents registered in the Registry of the Romanian National...

The managers and employees of "Broker" Cluj could receive a bonus of about 8% of the company"s net profit for 2011, if the company makes more than 60% of the profit stipulated in the Revenue and Expense Budget for the year, according...

When a stock exchange gets listed, it becomes a company whose stock is admitted for trading on a regulated market.

Romania doesn"t have any chance of exiting the crisis this year, and most likely it won"t do so next year either, when it will be an electoral year, Adrian Vasilescu, advisor to the NBR governor said yesterday.

Daniel Ţepeş has been selling BSE stock throughout the entire last week.

The domestic media has caught the WikiLeaks fever. Newspapers, websites, blogs and TV networks present and comment documents so "explosive" that some of them don"t even fizzle.

(interview with Adrian Olteanu, CEO of "Flanco")

The European currency fell below the 4.1 lei threshold on Friday.

The management of OMV Petrom will propose to shareholders a budget for 2011 which includes an estimated net profit of 2.31 billion lei and a turnover of 12.69 billion lei (according to the Romanian Accounting Standards).

As consumers become more sophisticated, the wine market is seeing an increasing number of wine waiting graduates, who are ready to work in this profession.

I don"t know if there are any idealists left to believe that the attack on Libya pursues the ideals of democracy and the removal of a bloody dictator.

I don"t know if there are any idealists left to believe that the attack on Libya pursues the ideals of democracy and the removal of a bloody dictator.

Last year, Austrian home improvement and do-it-yourself goods retailer "bauMax" had a turnover of 145 million Euros, up 23% over 2009, according to Nicola Szekely, the company"s managing director for Romania and Bulgaria.

The prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Department - The Department of the Alba Service have filed a new lawsuit pertaining to the National Investment Fund (FNI).

The Bucharest Stock Exchange and the Bucharest Clearing House (CCB) recently announced that 90% of the interest earned by the CCB on the cash collateral will be redistributed to its members.

The Proprietatea Fund (FP), the largest investor on the Romanian stock market, bought "Erste" shares (symbol: EBS) from a foreign stock market, despite the fact that the stock is also listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, a communiqué...

The Central Depository has interconnected with the similar institution of South Africa, Strate Limited, which will allow Romanian investors to settle their trades involving the financial instruments that it manages.

Oil prices rose slightly yesterday, after the US, Great Britain and France launched airstrikes against Libya, in an attempt to stop the advance of the troops of Muammar Gaddafi towards Benghazi, a city controlled by rebels.

There is no dictatorship in history that doesn"t have this element: its final mistake.

Reporter: What was the year 2010 like for Libra Bank?

Serious accusations are being brought against Florian Buzatu, former director of SIF5 Oltenia, whose term expired on Thursday.

After giving brokers and exchange operators a new reason to worry last week by announcing them that they would need to implement information security standards and obtain certification for them, the CNVM decided on Wednesday night to waive this...

It isn"t that clear what was the goal of yesterday"s raid by the dozens of policemen, gendarmes, Fraud Squad inspectors and customs officers: was it to uncover the fuel smuggling, the smuggling of agricultural products or any other kind...

The great secret of Teodor Ancuţa, the chairman of the Sibiu exchange, which was strictly guarded for a long time -the person he would propose to replace him as managing director of Sibex - was found by the "BURSA" daily, to be an...

Last week"s events of Japan have dramatically shifted people"s perception of the phenomenon that will take place at the end of this week. On Saturday, the Earth will be the closest to the Moon it has been in the last 20 years, at a...

Garanti Bank offers a special package of products and services targeting companies in which women hold a significant weight in the shareholder structure, a press release by the banks states.

Brokerage firm HB Invest of Braşov has ended its operations, and its customers can withdraw their money from the bank account opened with BRD-GSC Braşov, its representatives announced.

Notified by union leaders since one week ago that a major protest against the Government would take place, on the day that the Parliament would hold the vote on the eighth motion of no-confidence, I decided to participate, for the n-th time (as...

BRD is considering increasing its loan exposure to the agricultural sector from 8.5% to 10.6% of the total loan portfolio in the coming years, Roxana Cosmescu, executive director of the Commercial Division of the BRD network said yesterday.

The Romanian currency may only see marginal losses, after rising to a nine-month high in the beginning of the week, because the Central Bank may fight the tendency of the domestic currency to depreciate, a report by ING bank states.

Five Romanian universities received 19.13 million lei from the European Union, of which 18.24 million lei in grants, for the execution of Master program in the area of the management of International risk.

Romanians are often accused of passiveness. I am fully guilty of this myself, especially since there were times when I liked to think of myself as a man who likes to act. Of course, a man of a lesser influence, but after all, it"s the thought...

Romanian deputies no longer met in session on Romania"s National Day and on Monday and Tuesday, they celebrated by going to their "electoral constituencies" for various activities, which are usually scheduled to expand well into the...