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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the global macroeconomic surveillance institution, and the World Bank Group (WBG), the main multilateral development lender, opened their annual meetings in Bangkok on Monday, October 12.

The IMF and the World Bank are meeting in Bangkok in a world where, over five decades, debt has grown faster than output, and the global economy needs increasingly more investment for every additional dollar of output.

• Prices for many everyday products would have fallen in the absence of the US president's tariff policy, according to a New York Fed report • Across a sample of 67 product categories, consumers experienced a 2.9 percentage point increase in...  

For the international military base at Cincu, the shift in NATO strategy involves several aspects: the speed at which reinforcements can arrive, the equipment they bring, and the duration for which they can sustain a defense.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, asked Ukraine to choose another president, a day after lifting US sanctions on Russian diesel. Trump made the statements on Saturday, October 10, in front of reporters as he left the White House,...

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• According to Eurostat, at the end of the first quarter of 2026, the national public debt of the 27 EU member states stood at euro15.7046 trillion • In addition to that debt, Eurostat notes that the EU has outstanding loans totaling euro836.8...  

• (Interview with Jirí Gregor, one of the most copied Czech investors on the eToro platform)  

• Actions to disrupt air and rail travel as well as public services  

• The PSD President stated that the Social Democrats do not seek positions but want the Liberals in the government as well • Ilie Bolojan: "We are open to granting a vote of investiture, but we will not govern with the PSD again" 

On Thursday, the state borrowed from banks for a one-year term at a yield of 6.73%-a higher cost than the 6.50% interest rate it offers the general public through "Tezaur" bonds. For ten-year bonds, the situation is reversed: the public...

At the end of 2025, Romania ranked 22nd out of the 27 European Union member states in terms of the rate of grant payments from the Recovery and Resilience Facility, according to the European Court of Auditors' report on the EU budget...

• Transaction involving Special Project Delivery, Mobix Labs, and Winner Water to secure the supply chain  

• $32.20 billion - the negative gap Israel still records regarding capital flows, three years after the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 • Over the past three years, investments in Israel's defense industry have risen significantly • Companies...  

• Siegfried Mureşan, EPP Vice-Chair: "Compared to the European Commission's initial proposal for the 2028-2034 budget, the European Parliament's position entails a 47% increase in funds for farmers and a 35% increase for cohesion...  

Investors had rushed to judgment ahead of the agency: five-year insurance against default on Romanian debt, known as a credit default swap (CDS), was already the most expensive among more than 60 investment-grade countries tracked by Bloomberg,...

The government agreed to increase the payment-using funds secured through the SAFE program-for four military vessels, with the aim of saving the Mangalia Shipyard, which is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. Unfortunately,...

• Five of the world's top ten foreign investors in 2025 were technology companies. • TSMC tops the list with announced investments of $100 billion linked to its expansion in Arizona. 

Yesterday, for the second time in three months, Parliament rejected the investiture of a full-mandate government intended to replace the interim Ilie Bolojan Cabinet at Victoria Palace-an administration dismissed following the passing of a...

• The company expects delivery growth of between 0% and 2% this year, down from its previous estimate of 4%-6%. 

A bucket made from recycled plastic, a silicone cartridge that converts into paper packaging, low-emission cement, and a factory that has achieved carbon neutrality-these represent the practical application of sustainability and circular economy...

• The United States, at over $113,000, narrowly surpasses Japan • The USA and Japan are the only countries analyzed with a public debt exceeding $100,000 per capita  

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a London-based international financial institution, projects that Romania's economy will contract by 0.2% in 2026 and grow by 1.8% in 2027-forecasts unchanged since June-according...

The revision of the rules governing how the Fund designs lending programs and sets the conditions states must meet to receive funds was publicly announced on Thursday, September 24, in IMF Press Release No. 26/299. This move comes against the...