The European Commission has reviewed the latest prognosis on Romania’s GDP progress which indicated a growth rate of 2.8 percent this year, the autumn 2014 forecast anticipating an advance by only 2 percent. The revised estimation follows the economic slowdown recorded in the first half of the year resulted from the strong deceleration in the second quarter (1.2 percent y-o-y). ...more »

Romania’s central bank, BNR, has dropped the monetary policy rate by 0.25 percent to 2.7 percent, a new historic low which will be effective starting November 5, 2014, according to a press release. This measure follows successive reductions applied subsequent to monthly meeting of BNR’s Board....more »

The Financial Supervisory Authority  has approved a series of changes proposed by the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) to its Rulebook for Market Operators so as to increase the visibility and trading  turnover on the regulated market, i...more »

Banca Transilvania remained on a growth path in the third quarter this year, the 9-month aggregated gross profit amounting to 394 million lei (net profit came to about 338 million lei), 38.5 percent more than the in the corresponding period in 2013, states a press release....more »

Fondul Proprietatea continues the buy-back programme with the largest public offer so far: 750 million shares, representing about 6 percent of the fund’s share capital, reads a notification published on the Bucharest Stock Exchange website....more »

The successive financial loss recorded by the Romanian Post in recent years have come to an end, according to Razvan Cotolvea, Minister for Information Society, who anticipates profit of 65 million lei for the current year, reads Mediafax....more »

The leasing division of the financial group Garanti Romania has been provided a 7 million euro loan by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, funds which will be used to finance small and medium sized enterprises. ...more »

Azomures has concluded a 75 million euro loan agreement for the modernization of its two ammonia plants. The funds were secured from a syndicated loan granted by BCR in cooperation with UniCredit Tiriac Bank and will enable the Romanian chemical fertilizers producer based in Targu Mures to carry out one of the most important investment project included in the programme aimed at modernizing the production facilities....more »

The Romanian Government raised 1.5 billion euro in a ten-year euro-denominated bond, the first ever with an interest rate below 3 percent (2.981 percent). In comparison, the last similar bond issue in April 2014 was closed with an interest rate of 3.701 percent....more »

New Europe Property Investment has run an equity raising of approximately 100 million euro through an accelerated book build on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, funds which will be used to finance three recently announced acquisitions - Aurora Shopping Mall and Alba Iulia Strip Mall in Romania in Romania and Kragujevac Plaza Shopping Mall in Serbia, as well as future development and extension pipeline, along with possible further acquisitions....more »