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The law capping interest on loans granted by non-banking financial institutions (IFNs) and debt collectors has, unfortunately, big, essential differences compared to the original draft, lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, current MEP, who wrote the draft...

The Federation of Associations of Energy Utility Companies (ACUE) requests the Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) to establish for the operators of natural gas distribution networks a remuneration rate for the invested capital different from that...

The European Central Bank (ECB) will follow the services sector very closely for the next monetary policy decisions, warned the president of the institution, Christine Lagarde, in an interview granted, on Friday, to the French channel BFM...

Eurozone banks are making progress in countering climate-related risks, but more needs to be done, and the European Central Bank is ready to force lenders to act if necessary, Claudia Buch, the new president of the Supervisory Board of the...

A few months ago, I visited Romania, a country that, in tourist guides, is characterized as offering natural beauties that rival those of many countries in the world, and is also admired by the royal family of England, whose first voyage after...

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...

Manufacturing activity in the euro area contracted more in March than in February, as demand continued to fall, according to the results of a survey published yesterday, Reuters reports.

The leaders of the Reper party, a political formation founded around former Prime Minister Dacian Cioloş, announced yesterday the list of candidates for the European Parliament elections that will take place on June 9. On that list are the...

The Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank are the major central banks most likely to change the course of monetary policy in the next two months, according to analysts cited by CNBC, who note, however, that the changes these institutions will...

Reporter: Evergent Investments reported, for last year, a preliminary net profit increasing by 73% compared to that of the previous year, while the value of managed assets amounted to 2.95 billion lei, 25% higher than the value of at the...

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 indexes of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) increased in the penultimate month of the year, in an international climate favorable to the stock markets. The BET index, of the twenty most liquid titles of our stock market, rose by 3.5% to...

Eastern European countries have a competitiveness problem amid successive wage increases in recent years, and the foreign direct investment they benefit from could suffer, according to a recent study carried out by the IESEG School of Management,...

Încrederea investitorilor privind activitatea economică din zona euro a crescut peste aşteptări în noiembrie 2023, conform ultimului raport de la Sentix GmbH

Investor confidence regarding economic activity in the euro area rose more than expected in November 2023, according to the latest report from Sentix GmbH (see chart).

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...

After the decline started in the second part of last year, which took the dollar to a low not seen since the spring of 2022, the attractiveness of the United States currency has started to increase again. The US Dollar Index (DXY) rose yesterday...

Greece plans to list the Athens International Airport, the country's biggest, on its stock exchange next year, Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said recently, according to Reuters.

Libera circulaţie a persoanelor în spaţiul Schengen va putea fi restricţionată temporar, direcţionat şi justificat de statele membre prin reintroducerea unor controale la frontieră, potrivit raportului adoptat de membrii Comisiei pentru Libertăţi...

The free movement of people in the Schengen area may be temporarily restricted, directed and justified by the member states by reintroducing border controls, according to the report adopted by the members of the Commission for Civil Liberties...

Christine Lagarde was invited to the Federal Reserve's annual conference in Jackson Hole presumably to be terrorized by Jerome Powell.

Situaţia macroeconomică din România şi din întreaga regiune este stabilă şi perspectivele sunt pozitive pentru anul în curs, chiar dacă creşterea economică va încetini, au afirmat participanţii la Third Annual Romanian Business&Investment...

După o pauză de aproape 50 de ani, când în toate ţările din fostul bloc de Est tranzacţiile bursiere au fost interzise, Bursa de Valori din Ljubljana a fost reînfiinţată în decembrie 1989, iar după mai mult de trei luni a început să funcţioneze...

The representatives of the banking sector claim that the system has a particularly good capitalization and a good liquidity, and that at the end of 2020 the banking system was stable, with a solvency of more than 25% and much improved liquidity....

The Covid-19 lockdown and the associated economic crisis have irrevocably changed people's lives. One of the changes with a long term impact has been the acceleration of the transition towards digital payments: customers have avoided using...

The lockdown has messed up people's lives all over the world. This has overlapped with other, smaller crises. It has influenced several areas of business and has also had a positive influence on migration. In mid 2020, the migration rate had...

The health crisis we are going through has not only driven us apart, as individuals, but has moved us, as a country, away from the Eurozone. Experts point out that if before the Covid-19 pandemic, we were already far from meeting the accession...

• Republicans: "The stimulus plan passed by the American congressmen, too expensive and too badly targeted" 

In the first nine months of this year, the global debt increased by more than $ 15 trillion compared to the end of last year, to about $ 273 trillion, while the global economy contracted by more than $ 5 trillion, reaching $ 75 trillion,...

"The pandemic is threatening the existence of many companies in the Eurozone", an analysis in the latest financial stability report by the ECB states.

Christine Lagarde, the president of the ECB, talked a lot, but essentially said nothing, in the virtual conference organized by the ECB, which reaplced the Annual Sintra Forum.

The drop in global trade volume has slowed down in August 2020 as well, according to data from the World Trade Monitor report, published by the Dutch Institute CPB (www.cpb.nl).

Small and medium-sized enterprises are the first to be affected by an economic crisis, both at the national level and in the European Union (EU). Most small companies are now facing difficulties amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with most fighting for...

Statistical data announces a steep economic drop, from one year to the next, but the Finance Minister says he's pleased with our economic evolution, given the current international context.

The European Commission's statement on the "EU budget that fuels the recovery plan for Europe" states that "most of the recovery measures will be funded by a temporary recovery instrument, Next Generation EU, with a financial...

• The dollar and Euro are losing their shine to gold and bitcoin 

In the last quarter of 2019, the global Gross Domestic Product increased by 3 trillion dollars compared to the same period of the previous year, amid a 12.1 trillion increase in global debt.

The freezing of economic activity to stop the spread of the coronavirus epidemic led to the unprecedented contraction of global trade in April 2020, according to the World Trade Monitor report published by Dutch institute CPB (www.cpb.nl).