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The S&P 500 is up about 27% this year, slightly above its 24% gain in 2023, and if the year were to end at this point, it would be the best performance of the main U.S. stock market basket since 2019, an evolution that was not anticipated by...

The US and China are two great powers of the world, but their sources of power vary significantly, according to a Ray Dalio analysis (Great Power Index 2024) that identified eight basic pillars that measure a nation's types of strength. These...

Oil futures quotes rose by around 3% yesterday, on the international stock exchanges, against the backdrop of escalating tensions in the Middle East, as concerns are fueled that Iran's military attack against Israel could lead to new...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell late last week gave the clearest indication yet that the U.S. central bank is about to do what markets have long expected - cut interest rates, which are currently at their highest high level of the last two...

The Pilon II private pension funds, to which employees in our country contribute 4.75% of their gross monthly income, bought Hidroelectrica, Romgaz and BRD-Groupe Societe Generale shares in the first six months of the year, but sold their...

• "The inflation forecast does not look bad, but two words abound in the BNR press release - risks and uncertainties" 

The indices of the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had slight increases in July, before the sharp fall at the beginning of this month, caused by factors external to our country.

The middle of the calendar summer constituted a real challenge for the national energy system, in view of the increase in electricity consumption due to a prolonged period of 10 consecutive hot days, when temperatures of over 40 degrees in the...

Un procent de 32% dintre consumatori declară că îşi doresc interacţiunea personală pe care doar cumpărăturile în magazinele fizice o pot oferi, în pofida faptului că tehnologia transformă procesul de achiziţie, facilitând tot mai mult...

The Board of Directors of the National Bank of Romania decided on Friday July 5, 2024 decrease in the monetary policy interest rate to 6.75% per annum, from 7% per annum, starting from July 8, 2024, decrease in the interest rate for the credit...

Aproape jumătate dintre respondenţi (47%) spun că sunt optimişti în privinţa viitorului, în ciuda temerilor legate de creşterea costului vieţii (73%), de schimbările climatice (63%) şi de tensiunile geopolitice (51%) - se arată în cel mai recent...

The main indexes of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) ticked new historical records last month, when companies published their results for the first quarter of the year, and international markets had a growth trajectory.

La prima vedere, încălzirea globală ar putea genera profit pentru anumite industrii, precum cea a berii sau îngheţatei, însă modificările climatice au un impact mai puternic şi influenţează consumul, dezamăgind producătorii, arată Radu Puiu,...

Crude oil futures fell in foreign markets yesterday as lingering US inflation dampened interest rate cut optimism. However, stock market quotes are holding close to six-month highs as investors consider a potential attack on Israel by Iran,...

The spot price of gold reached a new record level yesterday, on foreign markets, against the background of expectations related to the interest rate cut by the US central bank (Federal Reserve - Fed), but also of geopolitical tensions and solid...

The Erdogan regime appears to be reeling after Sunday's local elections saw the Republican People's Party (CHP) win the vote in 36 of Turkey's 81 municipalities, which means it has reached 44.4% of the total voter choice, although...

The energy system in Romania showed high dynamics during the past year, with an increase in net national energy production of 3%, mainly due to increased hydraulics. This increase, along with the decrease in energy consumption by 4.9%, as a...

• February 1st 

Our country is not in recession and the National Bank of Romania does not have such a forecast, Governor Mugur Isărescu said yesterday, during the conference where he presented the "Quarterly Report on Inflation".

Gold futures fell below $2,000 an ounce this week in foreign markets, the lowest level in two months, as the U.S. dollar rose. The appreciation of the American currency followed the publication, on Tuesday, of data on the dynamics of US...

The main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had slight increases in the first month of the year, during a period of moderate appreciation in the international markets.

Globalization - the flow of goods, services, people and capital across borders - has stimulated global growth and facilitated the rise of many emerging markets in recent decades, according to a Euromonitor International analysis, which however...

Un procent de 94% dintre consumatorii de la nivel global sunt îngrijoraţi de costul vieţii şi aproape 89% dintre ei spun că sunt preocupaţi şi de schimbările climatice, rezultă din cea de-a 13-a ediţie a EY Future Consumer Index (FCI), care a...

Cea mai recentă ediţie a EY Future Consumer Index explorează modul în care oamenii din întreaga lume se gândesc la beneficiile personale ale tehnologiei. Experienţele lor de utilizare a instrumentelor digitale acasă şi la locul de muncă...

Consumatorii din întreaga lume continuă să îşi limiteze cheltuielile pe fondul evoluţiei provocatoare a costului vieţii, 94% dintre ei fiind acum îngrijoraţi de creşterea costurilor de trai, în timp ce continuă să se confrunte cu inflaţia,...

Majoritatea românilor au cheltuit mai puţin pe produse alimentare în 2022 şi şi-au redus economiile şi investiţiile - arată cel mai recent sondaj Future Consumer Index, realizat de experţii EY România la începutul lunii decembrie 2022, conform...

În perioada premergătoare COP27 - cea de-a 27-a ediţie a Conferinţei Naţiunilor Unite privind schimbările climatice - va avea loc în perioada 6-18 noiembrie 2022, la Sharm El Sheikh, în Egipt. Experţii EY explorează căile de tranziţie pentru trei...

Forumul bunurilor de larg consum (Consumer Goods Forum, CGF) şi EY au publicat un nou raport cu opiniile liderilor din industria bunurilor de larg consum, care subliniază priorităţile stringente pe care sectorul trebuie să le adopte pentru...

Cei mai mulţi dintre românii din marile oraşe au fost dispuşi să aloce între 200 şi 500 de lei anul acesta pentru cadourile de Paşti, aceeaşi sumă fiind prevăzută şi pentru masa festivă de Paşti, arată cel mai recent studiu Future Consumer Index,...

Incertitudinile economice tot mai mari din ultimele luni au afectat revenirea post-pandemie a consumului pe un trend pozitiv şi au diminuat din nou încrederea consumatorilor, arată cel mai recent studiu EY - Future Consumer Index, conform unui...

Se înregistrează o uşoară scădere la nivel global a nivelului de îngrijorare a consumatorilor în privinţa efectelor pandemiei COVID-19, conform rezultatelor celei de-a şaptea ediţii a EY Future Consumer Index.

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.

Criza generată de epidemia de COVID-19 defineşte patru categorii distincte de comportamente în rândul consumatorilor: "Redu drastic cheltuielile", "Păstrează-ţi calmul şi cheltuie", "Economiseşte şi fă stocuri" şi...

• Interview with economist Lucian Isar 

The leu yesterday reached a historic low against the Euro, 4.6495 lei/Euro, up 1.05 over the previous meeting, marking the fourth day where the exchange rate was above 4.6 lei.

The markets in China have seen a new major decline yesterday, which caused the triggering of the "circuit breaker" mechanism, which halts trading to reduce volatility, for the second time this week. The situation comes after Monday's...

• 1. The financial evolution of the planet 

• Constantin Boştină : "At the moment, Romania doesn"t need any kind of agreement, stand-by or precautionary" 

The retroactivity of the Government Ordinance 50 is a false issue, president Traian Băsescu says, who stressed that the ordinance will apply for future contracts. "It is the wrong idea to say that this ordinance would affect contracts which...

Romania can exit the crisis by itself. The only condition would be for them to be free from the state from an economic point of view. It"s not just the post WW2 socialism, but the so called market economy of these last 20 years that proves...