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Cooperation with the Government is a key ability of the CEO of an emerging market, Ludwik Sobolewski, the CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange told us in an interview. This was intended as a response to those who were saying that his results at...

Particularly so since Cornel Cojocaru came to the Press Office of the National Bank of Romania, the team of that department has been incessantly talking about ethics, using it as an excuse to justify its discriminatory behavior in its relations...

The Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) has instituted yesterday the procedure for financial turnaround through special receivership for Astra, the largest insurer in Romania, owned by businessman Dan Adamescu. The ASF has suspended the...

Nuclearelectrica sold yesterday, on PCBCV market administered by OPCOM, 1.100 green certificates at the price of 189 lei/unit.

Nuclearelectrica announced on the PCCB market administered by OPCOM, more selling auctions of the energy at a minimum reserve price of 165.5 lei/MWh.

The conflict between "Aversa Manufacturing", which acquired pump maker "Aversa", and the Authority for the Management of Assets of the State (AAAS) is being waged on several fronts.

The banking sector in Romania offers opportunities, because Romania looks like a place which many foreigners want to leave, after the ones who came here before the crisis got "burned", says Rafal Juszczak, the president of Romanian...

Did you think we would get away with just the bank bail-in, dear readers? Well, no! Amid the lack of reaction from citizens when it comes to the arbitrary measures adopted by the European authorities and the lack of results in the fight against...

The premier Victor Ponta, thanked the Parliament yesterday, right from the start of the government meeting, for "readopting the Law in terms of subsidies for green energy, a law that allows us to keep the prices within normal limits".

Governor Mugur Isărescu had not yet responded to Traian Băsescu, yesterday by 17:30, even though yesterday, the president had explicitly and firmly asked him, in public (on B1TV), while making unprecedented accusations, that the National Bank is...

The electrical energy export, rose last year, compared to 2012, by 114.7%, reaching almost 2.5 billion KWh, according to the National Institute of Statistics (NIS).

Mr. Costel Ceocea, the president of SIF 2 Moldova and member on the Board of Directors of Banca Transilvania, officially deny the persistent rumors that Mr. Horia Ciorcilă, the president of Banca Transilvania, is getting ready to leave the bank...

The gold market is definitely an alternative to the stock market, in the long run, says Liviu Dumitrescu, CEO of "Aurom Metal Investment".

Two men and a woman, all of them elegantly dressed, in a luxurious office, on the thirteenth floor of a glass building:

"You mean, Romania is promoting itself among American investors?", an airport employee asked, in the United States, trying to understand what the "Romania Investor Days" conference was.

The Financial Oversight Authority yesterday surprised stock market investors, by announcing that it will allow the SIFs to buy shares in each other.

Maria Voinea is the broker that everyone is pointing a finger at for everything that went wrong or bad in the "Harinvest" case, but her lawyer, Dan Stoicescu, has a different outlook on the situation.

Trader Dan Deak, who was fired by the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR), following the "Harinvest" scandal, has disputed the decision of his employer, according to a lawsuit filed with the Court of Bucharest, on January 14th, 2014.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission (EC) have asked our authorities to accelerate the diversification of the shareholder structure of the OPCOM (the Romanian energy exchange which the state fully controls through...

The latest monthly report of the Bundesbank should come as a shock to those that promote the idea of a European "spring" after the crisis of the last few years.

The Romanian and Chinese governments grant a great deal of importance to the hydropower plant project´s implementation in Tarniţa- Lăpuşteşti (Cluj), stated the Chinese ambassador in Romania, Huo Yuzhen on Friday in Cluj.

Businessman George Copos describes the "bail-in" mechanism (to save banks using the depositors' money) as an experiment that the European Union is conducting on small patients, whose potential (economic) death would not seriously...

A number of 37.776 building permits for residential buildings was issued last year, on the decrease by 0.2%, compared to 2012, informs the National Institute of Statistics.

The price of Comarnic-Braşov motorway, where the kilometre will get to a price of EUR 28 million, was set out by the experts of the participating consortia, an external independent consultant and the experts of the financing banks, according to...

The reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions (GES) by 40% under the level from 1990 and a mandatory quota of 27% at the level of the EU for renewable energy are the pillars announced yesterday by the European Commission for the new framework in...

"Palmer Capital", which last year took over "Middle Europe Investments NV", sees Romania as an extremely attractive market in the Central and Eastern Europe region.

Reporter: Dear Mr. Hassiotis, will the banking system be affected by the "bail-in" procedure which is shaping up for 2015?

Transelectrica might address the next bid bond to the small investors, according to Ştefan Bucătaru, the president of the directorate.

Romania holds the record at building highways at a snail's pace, but when it comes to expenses, we are always in the top tier, by paying bills that would be worthy of mammoth projects.

Sebastian Ghiţă, businessman and politician, gave us an interview in which we have approached a series of subjects concerning the measures for Romania's economic turnaround, the future of the government alliance, as well as the role that...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Romania Mugur Isărescu has the following explanation on the consequences of the passing of the "bail-in" legislation in the European Union:

The report that investigates the manner in which Bank of Cyprus came to own 9.7% of the shares of Banca Transilvania (BT), conducted by American consulting firm Alvarez&Marsal (A&M), at the request of the Central Bank of Cyprus, has been...

It seems like on Friday, someone yelled "Ready, Set, Go!", as just one minute before 15:00, the BSE received orders for four "deal" trades, involving 0.37% of the Proprietatea Fund, 1.41% of SIF4 "Muntenia", 0.85% of SIF5...

Many studies and expert voices in the medical sector all over the world are becoming increasingly interested in the study of the effects that new technologies has on our health.

Reporter: Mr. Mihai Bogza, as president of the Foreign Investors Council, how would you describe the evolution of the business environment in Romania in the year that has just ended?

The price of energy delivered in a regulated regime, the special constructions tax and the tax for water processing are factors that will affect the listing of Hidroelectrica, Remus Borza, the former president of the Supervisory Board of the...

The anger of the clients that suffered losses with"Harinvest" is growing from one day to the next, as they are not getting any answer from the institutions of the stock market to the question that they have repeatedly: "What are we...

SIF1 Banat-Crişana has contributed 10 million Euros in the share capital increase of SIF Imobiliare PLC, a vehicle created for the management of some of the real estate assets of SIF1.

• "We will not see a return of the real estate market in 2014" 

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