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After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

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

The U.S. stock market is facing its biggest decline since fall 2023, amid higher-than-estimated inflation that has dampened expectations of a near-term rate cut by the Federal Reserve, as well as intensifying tensions in the Middle East.

The first government round within a political coalition marked the second half of last year not through the lens of exceptional results, but through the continuation of taking measures that had a negative impact on the business environment, in...

The government was focused in the 4th financial quarter to reduce the budget deficit that it faced in the middle of the year and in the 3rd quarter, so that the officials in Brussels do not block the allocation of funds for our country from the...

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...

The year 2024 will not be great for stocks, believes Marko Kolanovic, chief strategist for global markets at JP Morgan, writes Business Insider. In a note to clients published mid-week, Kolanovic wrote that investors should prefer cash over...

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) is not considering a reduction in the monetary policy interest rate until inflation falls sharply, Governor Mugur Isărescu said on Friday, during the conference where he presented the "Quarterly Report on...

Romania does not need financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and there is no need to increase the VAT, stated, yesterday, the head of the IMF mission for Romania, Kees Martijn, during a press conference that took place at...

The vigorous upward movement developed by the main indexes of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) in July underwent a correction in August, in line with international market developments to which were added internal elements, such as fiscal...

Marcel Boloş, the Minister of Finance, claims that the fiscal measures discussed by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels at the end of last week, must be implemented,...

The fiscal rules proposed by the European Commission endanger the public investments necessary to combat climate change and, if they were applied, our country could increase its allocation for green investments by only 1%, without jeopardizing...

Inflation rose in four of six key German states in August, according to official data released yesterday, casting doubt on whether the national downward trend will continue, according to Reuters.

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...

Reporter: What impact will the coronavirus pandemic have on the economies?

The US-China trade war will slow the growth of the global economy this year at the lowest annual rate since the 2008-2009 crisis, warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

A new conflict on the dilemma of the Brexit is taking shape, this time between prime-minister Boris Johnson, who promised he would take Great Britain out of the EU on October 31st, with or without a deal that would govern the relationship between...

Born from the ashes of the financial crisis of 2007 - 2008, the second largest bull market in history became ten years old on Saturday, as the current historic cycle represents the second biggest economic expansion in the history of the...

• Interview with economist Lucian Isar 

The financial banking system seems to be the focus of most of the investigation entities. After being audited by the National Tax Administration Agency (ANAF) and by the National Consumer Protection Authority (ANPC), some of the banks which...

The hope of an accession as quick as possible by Romania to the Eurozone was dealt a heavy blow precisely on the National Day.

UniCredit Bank analysts are issuing a warning that the Romanian government is repeating many of the mistakes that have led to the recession of 2009-2010. The quoted experts are mentioning both the fiscal policy that is risky for the economy, as...

Mircea Ursache, the vice-president of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF), has announced yesterday that the institution will sanction shareholders acting in concert, prior to the general shareholder meetings scheduled next month at the SIFs,...

Reporter: PSD leader Liviu Dragnea says he found a "hole" in the budget of 10 - 14 billion lei, because of the positive rectification of November, and the technocrats are defending themselves claiming that the deficit of 2016 was...

The suspicion that the program of the PSD is nothing but a bunch of promises that won't be honored, once the party's members get into the government, was countered by the president of the party, Liviu Dragnea, who invoked the guarantee of...

The postponement of the application of some tax cuts stipulated in the current Fiscal Code set to come into effect on January 1st, 2017, made the Cioloş government flip-flop yesterday.

Reporter: Do you think that in 2009, we actually needed the loan that Romania took out from the international lenders? Why did we get to the point of having to call upon the international financial institutions, when the government had...

Raiffeisen Bank has snuck a gloomy prediction for the Romanian economy in the prospectus of the MedLife IPO, which it intermediates.

Portuguese prime-minister Pedro Passos Coelho, and his socialist opponent, Antonio Costa, yesterday got into a conflict on the issue of austerity policies, in a televised debate before the general elections of October 4.

Reporter: One of the burning issues that some banks, as well as some consumers are faced with, is that of loans denominated in Swiss francs. As OTP Bank is one of the institutions that have granted such loans and taking into account the fact that...

Reporter: How do we resume lending in Romania?

The value added tax and the excises may be cut earlier than we would have expected, specifically, by the end of 2015, as announced on February 19th by Darius Vâlcov, the minister of Public Finance, at the "Romania's development in the new...

Reporter: What effects do you think the cut of the Social Security Contributions will have in the economy and when it comes to the stability of the macroeconomic environment?

Reporter: The economy has entered a recession, after two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. How do you think the economy will evolve in the coming months, given a weaker harvest, the drop in investments, the drop in exports and the...

The German Central Bank has proposed an extension of the "bail-in" operation to the level of European stats faced with default: a tax on the wealth of well-off citizens, only charged once, which would be a one-off, and should precede the...

The German Central Bank has proposed an extension of the "bail-in" operation to the level of European stats faced with default: a tax on the wealth of well-off citizens, only charged once, which would be a one-off, and should precede the...

It may seem disrespectful, or just an attempt to sound catchy, intended to draw the readers' attention. But none of those would be true. According to the most valid analyses of the experts, these presidential elections are the most...

• "I haven't seen such a drop in a long time", the president of "Romalimenta" said 

From the presidency of Traian Băsescu we got a bad lesson: