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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 International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday kept its forecast for global oil demand unchanged in 2024, but downgraded estimates for 2025, citing the impact of Chinese consumption, according to Reuters.

Reporter:: How did the construction sector perform in the first semester of 2024? Is there a greater appetite for investment in the industrial area? Has the residential market contracted or stagnated compared to the first half of 2023?...

In the context of the increase in defense spending at the European level and the need to quickly equip the Romanian armed forces with the latest equipment and technology, compatible with those of NATO allies, in order to ensure the stability of...

• Interest rates between 5.8% and 7% for securities in lei, respectively 4% and 5% for those in euros 

The law on the capping of interest at non-banking financial institutions and the limitation of claims requested by debt collectors, a normative act that joins the law of giving in payment, citizens have a shield that protects them against any...

• "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.

• July 1st 

The Bank of Israel has requested that banks present a plan to redirect deposits from current accounts to term deposits, after banks stopped paying interest on these accounts, according to the Israeli press. The letter sent by the Bank of Israel...

The Federal Reserve is to blame for the recent historic drop in the stock market, according to a growing number of Wall Street experts, writes Business Insider. Since the Fed's last policy meeting last week, when the US central bank kept key...

The Swiss franc reached, yesterday, the highest level against the euro, in the last almost ten years, in the context of the turbulences on the financial markets, against the background of fears regarding a possible recession in the USA and the...

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...

Japanese shares fell sharply on Friday, after Wall Street fell on concerns about the US economy the previous day. The rise of Japan's currency, the yen, against the dollar has also had an influence.

The main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) marked a succession of new historical records in the first half of the year, in a general international context conducive to risky assets, boosted by internal elements such as the financial...

• 1st January 

Monetary policy, geopolitical events and economic conditions - among other factors - significantly influence developments in the foreign exchange market, and the US dollar (USD) was the best-performing currency in the last decade (2014-2023),...

Commodity markets faced selling pressure last week due to uncertainties over the upcoming US presidential election, concerns over the Chinese economy and rising agricultural production in Brazil, according to an analysis by Anadolu news agency....

• Prashant Kothaari, Alpha Alternatives: "All of Trump's policies will probably be inflationary; the dollar is likely to depreciate against gold" 

The European Central Bank (ECB) decided yesterday to keep the reference interest rate unchanged and did not give any indication of the next move, according to Reuters.

The upward trend started by the indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) since the summer of last year continued in the second quarter of this year, with the main share baskets of our market setting new historical records, between April and...

• April 9 

The budget deficit continued its decline in the second financial quarter as well, its growth being a little smoother compared to the first three months of 2024. Thus, if at the end of March the budget deficit recorded for the first quarter stood...

The first semester of 2024 ended with real estate transactions of 419 million euros in Romania, more than twice as much as in the same period last year (when the total value of transactions in the first six months was 167 million euros), and the...

U.S. investment bank Oppenheimer raised its year-end forecast for the S&P 500 to 5,900 from a previous estimate of 5,500, up about 6 percent from earlier in the week, according to an article published by 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 US stock market is sailing to new all-time highs amid concerns about the impact artificial intelligence may have on corporations and expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, which would reduce funding costs and would...

US tech giants have enjoyed a wave of success in the US stock market, driving much of the rise in the S&P 500 index since the outbreak of the pandemic (in 2020) to date. Five of the companies currently referred to as the "Magnificent...

In 2023, Romania's economy recorded a moderation in the growth rate, to 2.1%, which however remained relatively solid from a European and regional perspective. The twin deficits remained at high levels, while the annual inflation rate evolved...

The subscriptions of small investors in the last Fidelis government securities offer amounted to almost 350 million lei, yesterday, half an hour before the closing of the stock exchange session, according to the data collected by us from the...

The fact that we are in an election year does not influence the monetary policy decisions of the National Bank of Romania (BNR), which has proven to be independent, believes Lucian Anghel, Deputy CEO at Libra Internet Bank.

The US stock market is on track to grow another 10% by the end of the year, according to a new estimate from banking and investment advisory firm Evercore ISI, writes Business Insider.

ING Groep is targeting total revenue growth of between 4% and 5% per year by 2027, on the back of an expected advance in earnings from net interest and fee income, while reduced loan losses should offset costs higher, the largest banking group in...

Reporter: How does the private equity market in our country compare to that of comparable countries in Eastern and Western Europe? What are the challenges but also the opportunities?

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...

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.

• May 2 

During May, the government continued to make chaotic decisions regarding budget expenditures, although the deficit after the first four months of the current year stood at 3.24% of the Gross Domestic Product, i.e. a minus of 57.29 billion lei...

The tech sector's dominance of the US stock market may end by the end of this year, according to Bank of America, writes Business Insider.