Bank of Cyprus announces the transfer of the interest held in the Society of Grand Hotel Companies which owns JW Marriott hotel in Bucharest to Austrian group Strabag in a transaction estimated at 95 million euro. The sale is expected to be carried out by the end of September, 2014, yet, in case of a delay, its completion shall be no later than late-October, 2014...more »

Following last year’s performance when Romania’s gross domestic product grew beyond expectations, the provisory data published by Eurostat and further confirmed by the National Institute of Statistics moderates the optimism about the domestic economy which recorded two consecutive drops of the GDP. Romania entered, therefore, in technical recession, as the GDP declined by 0.2 percent in Q1 2014 over the previous quarter and by 1 percent in Q2 2014 compared to Q1, respectively....more »

Romania has seen a decline in foreign direct investment inflows in the first six months of 2014 which fell by 10.3 percent year-on-year. According to the latest report of Romania’s Central Bank, the volume of direct investment of non-residents in Romania totaled nearly 1.2 billion euro, a marginal advance compared to the previous analyzed period between January 1 and May 31, 2014, when FDI came to almost 1.1 billion euro....more »

Romania has attracted larger amounts of foreign direct investment between January 1 and May 31, 2014 compared to the similar period of the previous year, resulting into an advance by 13.9 percent year-on-year. Hence, the volume of direct investment of non-residents in Romania amounted to 1,091 billion euro, as shown in a report released today by the National Bank of Romania...more »

Consumer prices went down by 0.3 percent in June 2014 compared to the previous month on cheaper food and services, pulling down annual inflation rate to a new historic low of 0.66 percent, according to the data released by the National Institute of Statistics (INSSE). ...more »

Building materials manufacturer Adeplast recorded an increasing turnover of 134 million lei (some 30.4 million euro) in the first half of the year, an advance by 35 percent year-on-year, according to Agerpres which cites a company informing. The export segment was one of the growth engines, accounting for nearly 4.5 percent of the reported revenues after an increase of 184 percent compared to H1 2013....more »

Fondul Proprietatea (FP) has completed the bookbuilding process for private placement on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, announced on July 8, 2014, of all securities held in Transelectrica. According to an informing from Franklin Templeton, the fund’s manager, the final number of offered shares is 9,895,212, equivalent to a 13.5 stake, valued at 21.5 lei each (approximately 4.88 euro per share)....more »

Franklin Templeton, the manager of Fondul Proprietatea (FP) has announced its intention to sell up to 9,895,212 of shares, equivalent to the 13.5 percent stake currently owns in Transelecetrica, Romania’s system and transmission operator....more »

Electrica's shares made their stock market debut with a slight increase over the final price corresponding to the recently closed initial public offering. In the first day of trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) where securities are available in the form of Global Depository Receipts, the open price reported by the BVB went up to 11.11 lei per share, compared to the final offer price of 11 lei and 10.45 lei, respectively, for retail investors benefitting from the discounted securities....more »

The Board of Romania’s Central Bank, BNR, has decided to keep the monetary policy rate at 3.5 percent per year, the historic low achieved in February this year, following successive drops. An important decision taken during the board meeting ...more »