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The nominal returns of the seven Pillar II private pension funds were around 8%, in the first seven months of this year, respectively 14-16% in the period July 2023 - July 2024, performances above those achieved in normal. They are really...

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...

The social and political convulsions of the first three months of the current year left their mark on the entire semester, because the PSD-PNL coalition turned to the state piggy bank to calm them down. Thus, the Ciolacu government decided to...

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

The first month of summer was more hectic than usual due to the fact that, in addition to the budgetary problems faced by the Government, on June 9 we had European parliamentary and local elections, new amendments to normative acts in the field...

The lack of fiscal predictability is an acute problem for American investors in our country, the representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce in Romania (AmCham) stated yesterday, during the press conference in which they presented the...

The anti-corruption prosecutors are dissatisfied with the monthly salary of 5,000 euros and believe that they should receive an income equal to that of their DNA colleagues who are seconded to the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO),...

Our country ranks first in the ranking of investigations completed in 2023 by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) regarding the use of EU funds managed or spent in whole or in part at the national or regional level, the Brussels-based...

The regulated tariff for Transelectrica's system service increased by 40% starting this month, following an ANRE order published at the end of May, according to a report of the electricity carrier published on the website of the Bucharest...

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 need for a real partnership between political decision-makers and civil society, between governments, parliaments and citizens, was the main topic of debate at the 12th edition of the Global Forum of Modern Direct Democracy, an event that...

Following the crises that followed from 2019 until now and the over-indebtedness of companies, individuals, but also of states, it is vital that the mechanisms to prevent insolvency or bankruptcy work correctly and an interpretation agreed by all...

China's fiscal stimulus is losing its effectiveness, being more of a strategy to buy time for the country's industrial and consumer policies, says Yunbang Xu, senior analyst at S&P Global Ratings, in a report published last week,...

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

The construction sector is one of the main contributors to the creation of the Gross Domestic Product, but it is currently facing problems generated by the bureaucracy from the central and local public authorities, lending from the banking sector...

The beer market in our country experienced, with only 15 million hectoliters of beer sold, a decrease of 5% at the end of last year, a decrease that is added to that of 2022, according to the report presented yesterday by the representatives of...

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

Our country has a competitiveness problem, which can be seen very clearly in the current account deficit, said the chief economist of BCR, Ciprian Dascălu, on Friday, during the press conference where the BCR Romania Purchasing Managers'...

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The political scene in our country was awakened to reality, from the sweet sleep it had fallen into during the winter holidays, on January 9, when hundreds of farmers began to move to the Capital, dissatisfied with the fiscal measures imposed by...

Some commercial banks still lack a strong appetite for negotiating credit contracts, said Alexandru Păunescu, the representative of the National Bank of Romania in the Steering Committee of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Center in the Banking...

Last year, the governments of Ciucă and Ciolacu failed to comply with the state budget law approved in December 2022, a normative act drawn up by the PSD-PNL governing coalition and which provided for an increase in budget expenditures, but also...

The year 2024 started badly in Europe with farmers and transporters protesting. In Romania, we also have threats of strikes by employees from the various public sectors, dissatisfied with salary incomes, the last in line being those from the town...

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...

The faulty management of the former management team of ASF, headed by Nicu Marcu, with particular consequences in the insurance market, where in recent years we have witnessed the bankruptcies of the companies City Insurance and Euroins Romania,...

The National Agency for Fiscal Administration and the General Directorate for Anti-Tax Fraud will have zero tolerance for tax evasion this year, said Marcel Boloş, the Minister of Finance, yesterday, during a press conference in which they...

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 Financial Supervision Authority is waiting for the vote tonight or tomorrow by the plenary of the Parliament which will confirm the choice of the new management team made yesterday by the members of the joint committees of the budget,...

The "train" ordinance, which was on the agenda of yesterday's Government meeting, once again disrupted the business environment, because, in addition to postponing some payments and restructuring the activity of some public...

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...

Foreign investments, ensuring a transparent and efficient flow of financial capital and increasing human capital are essential for the reconstruction of Ukraine, argued the participants of the first day of the international conference...

Several companies from our country are being investigated by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) for being part of an intra-community VAT fraud scheme, a scheme that includes companies from over 30 countries, according to a press...

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...

Analysts from Wood & Company maintain their "Buy" recommendation for Banca Transilvania (TLV) shares, with a target price of 26.71 lei, in the next twelve months, about 15% above TLV's quote from yesterday, from the first part of...

Several European companies have chosen to withdraw from the continent's stock exchanges and list on the US, according to a Euronews Business analysis that shows the reasons for these departures.

After 15 years of activity, the Pilon II private pension funds have around 8.1 million participants, 117 billion lei accumulated, of which three quarters represent the contributions transferred into the system and one quarter (over 30 billion...

The terrorist attacks that took place on October 7 in Israel, followed by the bombing of Gaza by the armed forces led from Tel Aviv, the attack in Brussels and the return of terrorist threats in the states of Western Europe made October the...

The Returo company, which is the administrator appointed to manage the Guarantee-Return System regarding reusable primary packaging, will be penalized in the event of not reaching the collection targets assumed for blankets, bottles and cans,...

The business environment in our country must quickly adapt to the fiscal changes contained in law 296/2023, taking into account the fact that some of them entered into force yesterday, November 1, others will enter into force on November 11, and...