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All-time high - S&P 500 at 5,000 points; meaning and perspectives

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 European Parliament wants to cap bank interest rates for consumer loans

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....

Bogdan Maioreanu, eToro: "Central bankers setting the scene for a volatile September"

September is starting this week and statistically this is the weakest month for the financial markets. Investors were looking to the Jackson Hole symposium over the weekend in search for clues from central bankers on how they see the state of the...

The war over the budget, or shivering during the cold transition

Drawing up the state budget draft, resuming the school year, in the second semester, with pupils and students physically attending courses, the waiving of free access to railroad transport for students, the protests of the public sector employees...

MIRCEA URSACHE:"There is no confidence in the management of the ASF"

• (Interview with Mircea Ursache, former president of ASF)

"The capping of interest rates is a European practice. There are numerous countries in Europe which practice a capping of interest rates and we have decided to join them as well. The measure will be valid for banks as well as for IFNs, only for new contracts", Daniel Cătălin Zamfir said.

LIBERAL SENATOR STRIKES AGAINZamfir caps interest rates on loans

PNL senator Daniel Cătălin Zamfir does not disappoint. His draft law concerning the capping of interest rates was the first that appeared on the agenda yesterday, in the common meeting of the specialized commissions and despite the controversies...

THE SOLUTION TO THE CHF BORROWING CRISIS:Olteanu: "A formula for sharing the burden must be found"

If the law on the conversion of loans denominated in foreign currencies which the Ministry of Public Finance is currently working on, were mandatory, then customers could be hurt, says NBR deputy governor Bogdan Olteanu.

When the art of management is replaced with the art of spam flooding

If you want to survive as a manager, after you've made a big management mistake, you have to urgently create a straw man issue and straw man enemies to fight with outraged ardor. In other words, if you've bungled the art of management,...