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A referendum concerning the separation of the Veneto region from Italy, will be held between March 16th and March 21st, and the 3.8 million citizens from the cities of Venice, Treviso, Padova, Belluno and Vicenza are being called to answer the...

The officials who are telling our population that our country has nothing to do with the events in the Russian Federation are wrong, considers Ionel Blănculescu, honorary advisor to the prime minister Victor Ponta.

The acquisition of non-performing companies, but which have a potential for a turnaround, is the novelty that the management of SIF1 Banat Crişana, in 2014, according to the program presented to the shareholders, prior to the General Shareholder...

The conflict started between the Directorate of Banca Comerciala Carpatica (BCC), on one hand, and the shareholders Ilie Carabulea and Corneliu Tănase, on the other, yesterday had a new episode, which ended with the potentially decisive...

The shares of SIF3 Transilvania fell 7.78%, in the session which followed the announcement of its management that it is proposing the increase of the share capital using last year's profit and the granting of free shares, instead of dividends.

OPCOM considers the possibility to sue ANRE (the energy market regulator), after having been fined by the European Commission (EC) for anti-competitive practices, stated, yesterday, the management representatives of our energy market operator.

In the March 4th, 2014 issue of "Bursa", struggled to cobble together a lame syllogism, from which he drew the conclusion I don't know how to make money.

I would respectfully ask that you please stop speaking about "Romanians", as if you were not one of them.

Romania's gas imports are completely monopolized by Gazprom, Iulian Iancu, the president of the Commission for Industry of the Chamber of Deputies said. He told us: "They say that we could bring natural gas to the country through the...

Sibex has great ambitions, following the partnership with the Athens Stock Exchange (Helex Group), and wants to increase its trading volume four times - to approximately 10,000 contracts per day, by mid-2014, compared to an average of 2,400 per...

The ink hadn't even dried, so to speak, on the resignation of Dan Radu Ruşanu submitted to the Permanent Office of the Senate, that rumors about the future chairman of the ASF started making the rounds.

• The groups of Cătălin Chelu, Dinel Staicu, Constantin Frăţilă, Gheorghe Iaciu, Dragoş Bîlteanu - provided as examples by the CEO of SIF3 Transilvania 

The European Commission (EC) fined the energy exchange OPCOM and Transelectrica (TEL) by EUR 1 million for having abused its dominant position on the Romanian spot energy transactions market, breaching the European regulations in terms of...

In January, a number of 1.573 building permits was issued for the construction of residential buildings, out of which 65% are for the rural area, on the decrease by 7.1% compared to the same month of the last year, according to the National...

Shares of SIF3 Transilvania yesterday fell 7.78%, to 0.5805 lei/share, after the management of the company proposed to shareholders increasing the share capital using last year's profit and offering free shares instead of dividends.

I am trying to understand what the students in Braşov made from what the officials of the NBR told them yesterday, in the educational session of the "Academica BNR 2014" program, which was held in the Aula of the Transilvania University.

SIF3 Transilvania is analyzing the option of acquiring the viable assets of Oltchim, said CEO Mihai Fercală.

The brave Financial Oversight Authority (ASF), which began arduously investigating the trades involving SIF1 Banat Crişana shares made in September 2013, at prices rising at a blistering pace, is now keeping mysteriously mum about findings of the...

The "Aro Palace" hotel will be listed on Sibex starting today, even though some time ago, its majority shareholder, SIF Transilvania, was considering taking it public on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

• Ciurezu: "The statements of Mrs. Bobircă - liable to manipulate the market" 

The fourth largest Greek lenders would need additional capital of 20 billion Euros, according to some estimates made by the IMF, obtained by the Financial Times.

Consensus is no longer at home on the Board of Directors of SIF5 Oltenia.

The Alphaville project constructor from Braşov, the Aldra division of the Bermo group from Arad, extends on the external market, preparing a residential project in Nice - France. The representatives of the company didn't want to make more...

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...