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The official withdrawal from the race of PSD senator Daniel Zamfir leaves free room to Nicu Marcu for the position of chairman of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF). Marcu, currently vice-president of the Court of Auditors, has both the...

It may seem surprising for foreigners that are watching the protests in the US, but most people here in New York, support the Black Lives Matter protesters.

Even though they are fighting the electoral struggle, the PSD and the PNL have completed the split over the positions that will be becoming vacant this summer at several important regulators, and social-democrats have abandoned the leadership of...

From the article "Will we return to normal or not?" published in BURSA about a week ago, where we pointed out that the pandemic is behaving like a montagne russe, with the number of infections in Romania being up continuously,...

Tax experts warn the government that it should be prepared for an economic downturn of 8-9%. The Executive needs to be cautious and take into account a minimum level of contraction of the real GDP in 2020 of at least 3.5%, according to the 2020...

Romania doesn't meet any of the four criteria for joining the Eurozone and switching to the Euro, the European Commission said, in its convergence report published yesterday.

The pandemic has caused the education to take place exclusively online, but the construction works for areas dedicated to education have successfully continued "offline"

Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq 100, the indexes of the American technology stock exchange, recently reached historic highs, marking a perfect V-shaped market recovery, which was almost inconceivable during the February-March crash, amid the growing...

It's been three weeks since the exit from the state of emergency, and the daily number of infected with Sars-Cov 2 reported by the Group for Strategic Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs should clarify if the easing period...

The organoizational chart of the ASF is missing from its official website.

As we are nearing the presidential elections in the US, political polarization has reached unprecedented escalation. Why? Where are we going? In order to understand American politics, we need to remember that the American political model is very...

Unfortunately, this year we cannot celebrate the National Holiday, when 74 years have passed since the referendum that marked the birth of the Italian Republic.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is currently drawing up back up plans to resume its bond purchase program, amounting to several trillion Euros, without the German central bank (Bundesbank), if the German courts force the Bundesbank to withdraw...

The decline of global trade has picked up significantly in March 2020, according to the latest date from the World Trade Monitor report, posted by Dutch institute CPB (www.cpb.nl).

The blaze at SIF Transilvania started two months ago, around the General Shareholder meeting of April 28th, when the faction that gathered around the former football referee Constantin Frăţilă has prepared to overturn Mihai Fercală and his...

With few exceptions, the world's government have responded to the pandemic with a total quarantine. Medical experts claim that this has saved lives, economists claim that the measure has heavily affected the world's economy.

The blow dealt to Italy by the health crisis comes at a time when the country's economy and finance weren't exactly the most stable. Italy's public debt amounted to over 134% of its GDP at the end of last year, according to Reuters,...

• Not even the Wizard of Oz could solve the issue of government revenues and expenses 

• Bank of England bringing back discussions about negative interest on loans 

Prices are falling for things people aren't buying and rising for things that they are", US economist Robert Wenzel wrote after the release of official US inflation data.

After Romania was in a state of emergency for two months, Klaus Iohannis is following the European trend and starting today decides that we could go to the state of alert, in a first step towards returning to normal.

The scandal surrounding the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) has escalated to a pitch, lately. The protests in the insurance sector, as well as the chaos in the stock market come amid the lack of supervision, those involved say.

We are going through a period where, like never before, the non-banking financial markets are in turmoil and there are few people who remember April 30, 2013 when the Romanian Financial Oversight Authority was created.

The inability of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) to fulfill its role is now visible, without the need for specialized subtleties, because the chaos induced in the SIF market has reached the stage where it requires the intervention from...

The diagnosis does not need many validations and revalidations: Democracy, in its very home, in the Western space of of its creation and historical development, is suffering. It is in trouble. It is weak, where it should have excelled: the...

"We no longer have the limit of 3% budget deficit, but there is a natural limit to the loans that Romania can access - financing the deficit won't be easy", Popa says

• Rise of 4.63% for BET and of 6.75% in the case of BET-NG  

Laura Codruţa Kovesi, chief-prosecutor of the European Prosecutor's Office, has won in the European Court of Human Rights the lawsuit brought against the European Court of Human Rights, in the case of her illegal dismissal from the position...

The announcement by president Klaus Iohannis concerning the easing of the measures taken during the state of emergency, starting with May 15th, has created a general state state of expectation among the population, that quickly wants to return to...

• Dochia: "If stock market prices rise for two or three weeks, then the rise of gold will slow down"  

The crisis period we are going through shows a certain lack of trust in a series of international bodies, says Dan Paul, the president of the Brokers' Association, who said that in his opinion, the European Union will have a problem because...

The biggest challenge for the world right now is to find a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on avoiding new epidemic waves after social distancing measures are loosened, says Andre Cappon, founding president of CBM Group of New York.

Prior to the pandemic, one of the main concerns of the entire world was the military. According to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), last year, the biggest amount ever was spent globally, respectively 1.9...

SIF Banat-Crişana (SIF1), together with a series of investment funds which it finances to different degrees together with SIF Muntenia (SIF4), held at the end of 2019 approximately 26% of the equity of SIF4, whereas SIF Muntenia together with...

• That happens regardless of whether isolation measures are imposed or not 

Despite the conviction of El Lakis Najib and Dragoş Bîlteanu for the manipulation of the capital market and for using in ill-faith the goods and credit of the company, the expansion of SIF Banat Crişana that they have begun continues to be...

A negative price is an economic aberration, especially when it comes to one of the most important commodities and energy resources on a global level, just as negative interest is also an economic aberration.

BigOOgle Brother uses the information about the citizens' movements, according to a press release from Google, combines it into statistically relevant flows about what they do and offers it to decision makers to fight the Coronavirus...

1. To the Chinese and Japanese, the word "crisis" is expressed through two different symbols, which mean "danger" and, respectively, "chance/opportunity". If we have to face the danger, that doesn't prevent us from...

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