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The U.S. stock market has had a tremendous run over the past decade, but the years ahead may not be so spectacular, according to recent views of some big Wall Street banks.

With the opening by the Bucharest Court, on October 7, 2024, of the insolvency procedure for the Nordis Management SRL company, following the disclosures published two days before by the Recorder publication, the biggest scandal of recent years...

U.S. stock market indexes are hovering near new all-time highs, and according to some Wall Street strategists, there are strong indications that prices will continue to rise, even if the geopolitical climate is tense and valuations are high....

Hungary's constant meddling in democratic processes in other countries, despite the Viktor Orban government's frequent rhetoric about protecting national sovereignty, represents a "perverse" situation, political expert Daniel...

Major global investment banks are cutting their forecasts for oil prices this year and next as supply is expected to remain tight while the outlook for demand growth is weak.

Oil prices fell earlier this week to a level not seen since December 2021 after Brent crude fell 8% last week, according to Business Insider.

Investors must have an allocation of savings by asset class that allows them both to benefit from growth and to provide them with a certain peace of mind during periods of falling markets, says Răzvan Paşol, CFA, Director General of Patria Asset...

The nominal returns of the seven Pillar II private pension funds were around 8%, in the first seven months of this year, respectively 14-16% in the period July 2023 - July 2024, performances above those achieved in normal. They are really...

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...

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Global stock markets were gripped by panic in the first trading session this week as the latest economic data from the United States reignited investor fears of a possible US recession, results from several big names in technology the growth...

• The US currency is up 40% from its 2011 lows, while currencies such as the yuan have depreciated against the dollar over the past decade, according to Business Insider 

The upward trend of the main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), which started in the second half of last year, continued in June, during which our market was under the specter of dividends granted by its main companies.

The rally that has propelled U.S. stocks to new all-time highs, increasingly reliant on the performance of chip maker Nvidia and a handful of tech giants, is rekindling concerns that the U.S. market's performance depends only on a handful of...

China's fiscal stimulus is losing its effectiveness, being more of a strategy to buy time for the country's industrial and consumer policies, says Yunbang Xu, senior analyst at S&P Global Ratings, in a report published last week,...

At the end of last year, our country recorded a budget deficit of 6.3% of the Gross Domestic Product, according to the latest consolidated report published yesterday by DG Ecfin, within the European Commission. Given that at the end of January...

The BET index, of the most important companies from the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), has been marking a series of new historical records for more than a month, the main share basket of our capital market recently exceeding the 17,000 point...

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 major index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Nikkei 225, rose on Friday, the last day of the fiscal year 2023, reaching 40,369.44 points, a level higher by 44% compared to the previous year, on the background of increased foreign purchases and...

Un sondaj realizat recent în rȃndul startup-urilor care s-au înscris în comunitatea Bravva Angels, comunitatea de business angels care investesc în startup-uri fondate de femei, relevă un mix de optimism al antreprenoarelor cu privire la...

The slowdown of the world's major economies, lower demand for crude oil from China, lower production and the possibility of supply shocks are elements that will define the oil market this year, according to experts quoted by the international...

The recent rise in the US stock market does not have the characteristics of the speculative bubbles of the past, believes John Higgins, chief economist of the research firm Capital Economics, according to Business Insider.

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 S&P 500 index closed above the 5,000-point mark for the first time in history last Friday, after fourteen weeks of growth in the last fifteen, during which the main basket of shares in the United States marked an advance of 22%....

The euro earlier this year faced its worst January since 2015, falling 2.2 percent against the dollar, and further depreciation is likely, according to investment banks Rabobank and Credit Agricole.

The main banks listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had an exceptional evolution last year, in conditions where high interest rates and a certain robustness of the economy, which meant that borrowers did not have payment problems, were...

After one of the most difficult years for investors in the last century, in which stocks and bonds suffered double-digit declines, in 2023 the two asset classes had a comeback. The evolution was supported by the robustness shown by the United...

Lower interest rates by the world's major central banks, which favors equity markets, high-yielding dividend distributions by Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) companies, progress towards moving our market into the MSCI Emerging Markets category...

ASF must be led by specialists and less by politicians, claims the economic analyst, prof.dr. Mircea Cosea.

Rising global supply and an uncertain demand outlook pushed oil prices to a five-month low last week, with crude headed for its seventh straight weekly decline, according to international media.

The price of gold reached a new all-time high yesterday, with the spot price of the precious metal temporarily surpassing the $2,100 per ounce mark, and analysts expect the appreciation not to stop there, according to an article published by...

In his major work, the Histories, Herodotus writes about the attempts of the Persian king Darius to conquer the entire known world. This is how he reached the territories inhabited by the Scythians, which are currently part of Ukraine and Russia....

The RAND Corporation, the architect of the most important economic and military strategies of the United States and NATO for more than seven decades, recently published an analysis that calls into question America's ability to maintain its...

During this year's RIGC (Romanian International Gas Conference), the Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, Ştefan-Radu Oprea, stated that green energy and carbon capture and storage can provide a competitive advantage to our...

Inflation has decelerated this year, while interest rates offered by commercial banks to the public have fallen slightly in recent months, but rates are still in negative real territory, which, in terms of purchasing power, favors borrowers over...

Romania's economy is showing weaker growth than previously anticipated, say OTP Bank analysts, who attribute the slowdown to challenges in the services and industry sectors, fiscal consolidation and weakening activity in the eurozone. In...

It is unlikely that there will be attacks like the one in Brussels in Romania, according to analysts in the field, who say that we have not been the main targets of such events in the past either. Romania is considered by many to be a country...

Problems never come alone. The poisoning of nature immediately turns against people who do it for economic reasons or out of ignorance.

Oil prices rose to their highest level in a year as a sharp drawdown in US crude inventories added to fears of low global supply caused by cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries plus its allies (OPEC+ ), with Saudi Arabia...

The state capping of bank interest could become a reality if the European Commission's proposal for a directive on consumer loans passes the European Parliament as the text was adopted in first reading in the meeting of September 12, 2023....