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The S&P 500 index reached a new all-time high at the end of last week, after a spectacular recovery from the fall that began in February, triggered by Donald Trump's declarations regarding the imposition of tariffs in the United States of...

US President Donald Trump sees no need to extend tariff truce beyond July 9, preferring to send a letter directly to trading partners setting out the tariffs they will have to pay, according to international media.

US stocks continue to underperform in 2025, hurt by a weaker dollar and trade tensions over the Trump administration's tariffs.

FIA Active Plus, an investment fund managed by Swiss Capital Asset Management and whose units are almost entirely owned by Lion Capital and Longshield Investment Group, has reached an 11% stake in Infinity Capital Investments, according to...

Former Foreign Minister and former director of the National Library of Romania, Adrian Cioroianu, launched a public appeal during an anniversary event dedicated to the National Library, drawing attention to the major risk that VAT increase on...

With the return of the electricity market in our country to free market status, with the termination of the cap-compensation scheme on July 1, consumers will directly feel the market variations, and for many of them, the energy bill could become...

More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean region were affected by drought at the beginning of June 2025, marking an absolute record for this time of year, according to an analysis by AFP based on data provided by the European Drought...

Finalul primăverii calendaristice, luna mai, a reprezentat un punct de cotitură atât în evoluţia politică, cât şi în conturarea traiectoriei economico-financiare a României, marcând tranziţii majore, volatilitate instituţională, dar şi iniţiative...

• 2 mai 

Luna mai 2025 a reprezentat pentru România un moment de intensitate politică rar întâlnit, cu un climat electoral tensionat, răsturnări de situaţie spectaculoase şi consecinţe majore în peisajul guvernării. Totul a început cu primul tur al...

The interim government of the last month of spring continued the previous policy of the Ciolacu Cabinet, and resorted to increasing budget spending, by allocating to local authorities, at their discretion, significant amounts from the Budgetary...

May 2025 represented a rare moment of political intensity for Romania, with a tense electoral climate, spectacular reversals and major consequences in the governance landscape. It all started with the first round of the presidential elections on...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) indices recorded significant increases last month, amid the confirmation of the country's pro-European course, highlighted by the election of independent candidate Nicuşor Dan as president, in a context...

• May 2 

The end of the calendar spring, the month of May, represented a turning point both in the political evolution and in the shaping of Romania's economic and financial trajectory, marking major transitions, institutional volatility, but also...

Iran's nuclear facilities have suffered significant damage following recent US airstrikes, according to a statement made yesterday by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, quoted by the Tehran news agencies - IRNA, Tasnim and...

Brazil, host of the upcoming UN climate conference (COP30), is facing a serious ecological crisis: forest and vegetation fires in 2024 have devastated more than 30 million hectares, equivalent to an area larger than Italy. According to a study...

• The fiscal deficit and the reaction of the capital market 

Alexandru Savin, investment manager and board member of Roca Investments, resigned earlier this week from his position as president and board member of chemical company Sinteza Oradea, according to a report published by the issuer on the...

In a world where everything seems to be reinvented and monetized at a dizzying speed, few cultural symbols manage to retain their authenticity. The Romanian Ia is one of these symbols - a piece of clothing that, although it has been worn,...

Pope Leo XIV has said that the Roman Catholic Church "must not tolerate any form of abuse”, whether sexual, spiritual or of authority, The Guardian reports. It is the first public statement by the sovereign pontiff on the global...

Majorarea impozitului pe câştigurile de capital la 10% ar putea genera marcări de profituri pe termen scurt, mai ales în contextul evoluţiei puternic pozitive din ultima lună de zile de la Bursa de Valori Bucureşti (BVB), consideră Antonio...

The state should start with reducing budget spending and administrative reform before introducing new taxes or increasing existing ones, Senator Florin Jianu, former president of the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private Enterprises...

USR would agree with the increase to 10% of the tax on gains from stock market transactions, but on the basis of a different system than the current one, MP Claudiu Năsui, member of the Budget, Finance, and Banks Committee of the Chamber of...

The small number of daily transactions at BVB makes it easy to implement the measure of increasing the tax on gains from the sale of shares, claims university professor Dr. Mircea Coşea.

The increase from 1% and 3% to 10% of the tax on gains from stock market transactions would be one of the 100 measures agreed upon by the PSD, PNL, USR and UDMR negotiators during the discussions at the Cotroceni Palace, according to a document...

The state should start with reducing budget spending and administrative reform before introducing new taxes or increasing existing ones, Senator Florin Jianu, former president of the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private Enterprises...

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange recorded a 33% increase in initial public offering (IPO) listings in the first half of 2025, compared to the same period of the previous year, making it the third-busiest stock market globally by number of...

Increasing the capital gains tax to 10% could generate short-term profit margins, especially in the context of the strong positive evolution of the last month on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), believes Antonio Oroian, a broker at Goldring....

Central banks around the world expect the share of gold holdings in their reserves to increase over the next five years, while the share of the dollar in their reserves is expected to decrease, according to a study by the World Gold Council...

The conflict between Israel and Iran shows no sign of de-escalation, even though, according to the Israeli press, the Tel Aviv authorities declared yesterday that they are not seeking to overthrow the political regime in Tehran, but only to...

Former Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former presidential advisor, Iulian Fota, told the BURSA newspaper that Israel and Ukraine are becoming causes of the West by the linking of the two files made by US President...

Bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency, has seen rapid growth in the last two months, reaching a new all-time high of around $111,950 in May, amid a combination of factors such as the suspension of trade tariffs announced by the...

Listing of profitable state-owned companies on the Bucharest Stock Exchange seems not to have removed the habits of the political managements appointed to these companies regarding the collection of huge incomes, bonuses and increases, even if...

The Council of the European Union announced last Friday its unanimous support for extending until March 4, 2027 the temporary protection granted to the more than 4 million Ukrainian refugees who have fled the war of aggression launched by Russia,...

The decision of the General Court of the European Union in the Pfizergate case would allow the European Commission to circumvent the obligation to publish messages exchanged between Ursula von der Leyen and Albert Bourla - CEO of Pfizer during...

Anyone who still had any doubt that Artificial Intelligence has negative effects, that it is the realization of a global conspiracy, has had a strong argument for two days in support of their respective ideas: the motivation of decision 297/29...

A record heat wave caused the Greenland ice sheet to melt 17 times faster than the historical average between May 15 and 21, 2025, warns the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA), in a new report cited by AFP. The extreme event also...

The world has recorded another extremely hot month, with oceans and land continuing to reach "unusually high” temperatures, extending an alarming series of climate anomalies that has lasted for more than two years, according to data...