Analysis
Export Growth Slows To A Halt In December
Romanian companies exported a record EUR45 billion in 2011, 20% more than the previous year. Yet shipments abroad showed signs of a slowdown in the last quarter.
Romanian Business Community Unfazed By Government Resignation
The Boc Government has taken good measures as well, but many of them came too late and were not well enough communicated, and the resignation will defuse the social and political tension, ac...
Foreign Banks Cut Exposure To Romania By EUR2.6B In 3Q
The Austrian banks cut exposure to Romania by some EUR1.9 billion in the third quarter of 2011 compared with the mid-year level, due to pressures to reduce vulnerability to risk and consolid...
Who Keeps Track Of Romanian Entrepreneurs In The Local Economy?
Portuguese-held Martifer, Greek-held Olympus and US-held Delphi in 2011 made the largest greenfield investments in the Romanian economy, according to a ranking supplied by the Economy Minist...
Investment Funds In Fierce Competition With Banks Over Savings In 2012
Raiffeisen Asset Management, with over EUR650 million in assets under management, estimates its assets will increase by several tens of million of euros this year, because of fierce competit...
Danske Bank: Romanian Central Bank Is Well Aware Of Economy’s Weak Growth
The Romanian central bank (BNR) will cut its key interest rate by a further quarter of a percentage point at Thursday’s monetary policy meeting, considering that the Romanian economy needs s...
Growth Through Competitiveness
The debt crisis has turned into the most serious crisis of confidence in the European Union's history. Citizens and investors are asking themselves: is Europe doing enough to prevent the cri...
Biggest Bankruptcies: Crisis Brought Three Malls And Several Retail Businesses To Their Knees
Bankruptcy has not affected many major businesses in the past three years, only around 20, shows a ZF review of the biggest bankruptcies in the past three years.
Lawyers: Restricting Right To Foreclose State's Shares Is Unconstitutional
The Romanian Government's plan to suspend for five years its creditors' right to seize or place distraint on shares in state companies is in breach of the Constitution and of EU law, and wil...