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Banks" lending policies have taken a different turn since spring, when they have begun to visibly lower the interest rates for new loans denominated in lei and to raise them for loans denominated in Euros.

On May 17th, the shareholders of the "Artmark" galleries have approved the borrowing of up to 1.1 million Euros from a local bank in order to partially repay the loan taken from Arch Industries Holding B.V., on August 22nd, 2008, for...

The shareholders of "Calipso" Oradea (CAOR) are set to decide, in the General Shareholder Meeting of July 18th, the admission of the company on the regulated market of Bucharest.

The leu/euro yesterday reached the lowest level in the last four months, with the NBR displaying an exchange rate of 4.291 lei/Euro, up 2.03 bani over the previous session.

The construction of small anti-atomic bunkers is a business that has been revitalized by the latest natural disasters and by the predictions of scientists.

The judges of the Constitutional Court had yet to decide yesterday on the issue of the unconstitutionality claim against the 1% limit applied to the stakes of its shareholders, which had been set through an emergency ordinance in the summer of...

The insulting of the Romanian national flag received quite a lot of praise at the Effie Romania awards, as agency McCann Erickson got the silver awards in the newly created category "media efficiency" for the "American Rom"...

British banking group "Royal Bank of Scotland" Plc (RBS), controlled by the state, took over 42 hotels which American company "Marriott" owns in Great Britain, due to company"s failure to restructure one of its largest real...

The situation in Greece will affect Romania and Bulgaria, given the fact that the subsidiaries of Greek banks have reduced lending, the report of Japanese lender Nomura said Nomura, partially published on a blog of the paper "Financial...

About 20,000 protesters demonstrated yesterday before the Parliament of Athens, against the new austerity measures taken by the Greek government, which have also caused the beginning of a 24-hour general strike.

Reporter: Some analysts are saying that, in order to exit the crisis, we need to stimulate consumption, by increasing revenues.

A large series of businesspeople had a lot to lose following the appraisal report of the plots of land that the airport of Ghimbav will be built on, according to information from inside the County Council of Braşov.

After significantly raising their stake in "Oltchim" Râmnicu Vâlcea (OLT), taking it up to about 17% following their buying over the last few weeks, the Poles of PCC SE have announced that they have begun talks with the representatives of...

Anca Bunea, general manager of WBS Romania and one of the trusted people of Cristian Sima, was appointed to lead the Romanian Clearing House CRC, according to a press release received yesterday by our editors.

The growth pace for small payments has slowed down from 4-5% a year to 1-2% a year, due to the financial crisis, Răzvan Faer, the head of the Strategy and Marketing department of Transfond said yesterday.

The first issue of 5-year Romanian Eurobonds, part of the MTN (Medium Term Notes) program will have a coupon of 5.4%, 0.2 points over the price paid for the issue of 2010, when investor orders exceeded 2 billion Euros.

Romgaz will begin exploration of some deposits in Slovakia and Poland, and by the end of this year, it will submit the documentation needed to access the Iraq market, Francisc Toth, the deputy managing director of the company said yesterday in...

The shares of several companies in the oil and petrochemical sector have risen sharply in the last week on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, arousing the interest of speculators and leaving analysts wondering, as they can"t come up with any...

It is always exciting to read about the fact that the heads of two powerful Security Services are getting together, and the announcement of the meeting of the Head of MI6 with the Head of SRI (Romanian Intelligence Office), as part of President...

For more than a week now, Valentin Ionescu, the general manager of the Bucharest Stock Exchange and president of the Central Depository has been in a situation of incompatibility between the positions he is holding, according to a decision of the...

The Association of Capital Market Investors (AIPC) expressed its disappointment over the recent statements of the Minister of Communication, who likes the proposal of OTE to merge Romtelecom and Cosmote Romania, and who wants to list the stake...

The shares of "Oltchim" are 3.4 times more expensive than they were a month ago, but to PCC SE they seem priceless.

The strengthening of the monetary policy in the 2005-2006 period, led to the unsustainable strengthening of the leu and caused a boom in loans denominated in foreign currencies, Mugur Isărescu, the governor of the Romanian National Bank said...

The shareholders of Cord Buzău will meet on July 11th to discuss the proposal of the members of the board to increase the company"s share capital by 32.71 million lei.

Ecopack Ghimbav is the only company of Braşov which received European funding last year for the financing of an investment project through the Sectoral Investment Program - Increase in Economic Competitiveness, as part of the operation intended...

According to an Ordinance issued on Friday, the Romanian National Securities Commission (CNVM) is forcing the Board of Directors of the Sibiu Exchange to appoint a temporary administrator, until the next General Meeting of Shareholders, to...

The ultimatum of the Romanian National Securities Commission, which demanded that the Sibex quickly hold a new General Shareholder Meeting in order to elect a new member of the board to replace Bogdan Ivan, who resigned, has brought about a...

On Friday, SIF Moldova began the battle against the Austrians of BCR, filing a lawsuit requesting the cancellation of several decisions made in the General Shareholder Meeting held at the end of April.

The Ministry of the Economy is looking to earn more than 600 million Euros from the sale of its minority stake of 9.86% in Petrom, minister Ion Ariton said in a press conference in Sibiu, held on Friday.

Braşov-based IUS SA has reduced its losses over 11 times YOY in Q1 2011. The losses of the maker of hand tools fell from 3.983 million lei to 347,030 lei in the similar period of last year.

The Constitutional Court yesterday postponed the hearing of the constitutionality of the maximum holding limit of 1% of the shares of the SIFs until June 16th, Mihai Fercală, the chairman of SIF Transilvania said. "It is nevertheless a short...

The state will get to keep the donation of 400 million lei made by "Romgaz". This ruling is definitive and irrevocable, the court ruled in the lawsuit in which the Proprietatea Fund challenged the decision of the shareholders, of November...

The financial crisis will sound like a good joke compared to what will happen once the crisis of drinkable water begins. Experts claim that this issue will arise in 2025, as the resources of drinkable water available will be increasingly...

On July 4th, the company Avicola Braşov will submit to its shareholders for approval the plan of taking out a loan of 40 million lei in order to support the company"s production, according to a press release that the company sent to the...

SIF Transilvania announces that the payment of dividends distributed out of the company"s net profit for 2010 will be made gradually between September 1st and October 28th, 2011.

Strapped for cash, the Romanian state has decided to sell 9.84% of the 20.64% stake it holds in "OMV Petrom" through the Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Business Environment (MECMA), while retaining its significant shareholder status...

Three quarters of the domestic fuel sector is divided between "OMV Petrom" and the "Rompetrol" and "Lukoil", groups, OMV being a price maker on the domestic retail market (at the pump).

- The Project Support Agreements will be signed in Turkey by the Nabucco companies and by the governments in the countries that the pipeline will transit through.

The listing of stakes in Hidroelectrica and Romgaz, equal in size to those of Transelectrica and Transgaz, will generate between 5% and 10% of the capitalization of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), said Radu Boanţă, senior associate of law...

The licensing process gave nightmares to many of the domestic clubs, with two of them, Poli Timişoara and Gloria Bistriţa, being relegated due to their financial issues.