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Russia's economy is showing solid growth in many sectors while unemployment remains at a record low, statistical data released Wednesday showed, prompting Moscow officials to advance an upbeat outlook for the full year despite Western...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell late last week gave the clearest indication yet that the U.S. central bank is about to do what markets have long expected - cut interest rates, which are currently at their highest high level of the last two...

• The key interest rate is currently in the range of 5.25%-5.5%, the highest level in the last 23 years 

Since 1900, the United Kingdom has accounted for almost a quarter of global market capitalization, according to visualcapitalist.com, which has compiled a country-by-country ranking of the industry covering the years 1900 and 2023.

Young people find it a bit easier to find a job compared to the last part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. Youth unemployment fell globally last year to its lowest level in 15 years, and the trend is likely to continue...

Tinerii îşi găsesc ceva mai uşor un loc de muncă faţă de ultima parte a secolului XX şi începutul secolului XXI. Şomajul în rândul tinerilor a scăzut anul trecut pe plan mondial la cel mai redus nivel din ultimii 15 ani, şi tendinţa va continua...

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...

The Board of Directors of the National Bank of Romania decided on Friday July 5, 2024 decrease in the monetary policy interest rate to 6.75% per annum, from 7% per annum, starting from July 8, 2024, decrease in the interest rate for the credit...

The Damen Mangalia Shipyard (DSMa) will be forced to lay off approximately 1,000 people, after the Dutch group Damen asked the Constanţa Court to declare the offshore production capacity bankrupt, a fact we drew attention to a month ago and a...

A survey conducted in 38 countries by Statista Consumer Insights shows that only 21-44% of respondents believe that environmental protection is a major issue for their country, with respondents from Brazil being, for example, the most concerned...

The government is decided to increase the gross minimum wage in the economy to 3700 lei, but before that it will have a discussion with the social partners - employers and unions, said Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu at the end of the Executive...

Dissatisfaction with working conditions also reached a place that seemed free from such problems. Nearly 50 employees - including 47 guards - sent an official notice to Cardinal Fernando Vergez Alzaga, the head of the Vatican City administration,...

The loans contracted by the European Union will represent in the coming years a real bomb from the community budget that will have to be defused by the decision-makers in Brussels, claims Nicolas-Jean Brehon, budget advisor of the Schumann...

With an index of 49 points out of a possible 100 for the first semester of 2024, Romanian entrepreneurship is below the threshold of emergence, according to the work carried out by the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private...

The US central bank sees no signs of an economic recession this year or in the coming years, according to CNN Business.

China plans to transition to a healthier growth model, but its strategy may set off a real showdown with other major economies, the CEO of Chinese economic data and analysis platform China Beige Book, Leland Miller, told CNBC, quoted by Business...

In contrast to the three sovereigntist candidates of yesterday, running for the Presidency, Călin Georgescu presents (I don't know why) the reputation of a scholar, although he is an agronomist, which is somewhat noticeable.

Two years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia still faces an unprecedented number of economic sanctions, has been shut out of major global financial services and has had around 260 billion euros of central bank assets frozen.

Consumer prices in China continued to fall in January, recording the sharpest decline in 14 years, according to official data released yesterday, putting pressure on the Beijing government to adopt more aggressive measures to revive the...

January was the sixth consecutive month that foreign investors sold shares listed in China, according to a Bloomberg report, writes Business Insider. Last month, global funds sold 14.5 billion yuan -- about $2 billion -- of Chinese stocks as...

A Hong Kong court yesterday ordered the liquidation of property giant China Evergrande Group, dealing a further blow to confidence in the country's fragile property market as policymakers in Beijing step up efforts to contain the deepening...

Finding a job is not an easy task, even though employers claim that the labor market is still unbalanced, and they struggle to find personnel. A total of 190,039 people were employed in 2023 as a result of the implementation of the National...

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...

The draft state budget law drawn up by the Government and published yesterday, in transparency, on the website of the Ministry of Finance, shows us that at the end of next year the state treasury will close with a deficit of 5%, which in nominal...

Russia's GDP grew by 3.2% in the first ten months of 2023, already higher than before the country's economy was sanctioned by the West, according to the leader of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, quoted by the TASS agency, announcing...

Asia's largest economy has recently entered a new stage of trade relations with the rest of the world, in which the main partners are developing economies, according to an analysis in the Wall Street Journal.

The listing of Hidroelectrica, which put the Bucharest Stock Exchange on the radar of new institutional investors and attracted new capital flows to the market, the undervaluation of companies, high dividend distributions and the improvement of...

The main concern of the Government in the last month of autumn was to correct the errors crept into law 296/2023 through which fiscal changes were made, a normative act that passed the Parliament through the assumption of responsibility by the...

The draft pension law which was adopted on Tuesday by the Senate plenary and which was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies - the decision-making body regarding this normative act - is disputed by the National Trade Union Bloc (BNS) and the...

The 1% tax on turnover will have a negative impact on the economic sector of goods distribution, and implicitly on the national economy, it is stated, in a press release sent to the Editor, by the Association of Romanian Goods Distribution...

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.

The U.S. stock market has rallied this year, with the S&P 500 gaining 21 percent through July, but in August the rally stalled after a flurry of economic data and statements from Federal Reserve officials fueled fears that the U.S. central...

Despite the pressures generated by the war with Ukraine, Russia's economy has not collapsed, and has even given President Vladimir Putin some reasons to be happy, according to an analysis by the independent Russian news site The Bell, which...

For some time now, the markets have been influenced almost daily by the gloomy economic news coming out of China. The world's second-largest economy is grappling with a host of problems, including deflation, record youth unemployment and a...

The indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) are facing a corrective movement in the last two to three weeks, arising in a negative climate for risky assets internationally. The BET index, which brings together the 20 most liquid stocks of...

The hot topic in economics in every country at the moment is inflation and Romania is well ahead of any all the major economies.

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 US economic stimulus plan, proposed by President Joe Biden, was passed on Wednesday after receiving the final vote in the House of Representatives, creating a success for Joe Biden, 50 days after his appointment into office, but only...

• The European Commission has decided that coal needs to be replaced with renewable sources of energy by 2050