David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, will arrive in capital Bucharest on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, for a two-day visit, which will be his first trip to Romania as World Bank Group President.
Romania’s Finance Ministry raised RON650 million from banks via two government paper auctions at an annual yield of 6.49% and 6.37% on Thursday, April 7.
Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR), the second largest bank in Romania by assets, will be listing a new corporate bond issue worth RON351.5 million, under the stock ticker BCR27, on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, on Friday (April 8).
Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, surged to 4.68% a year on Wednesday (April 6) from 4.62% a year on Tuesday (April 5), as per central bank data.
Romania’s finance ministry will be listing on Thursday (April 7, 2022) four new FIDELIS government issues of bonds at the Bucharest Stock Exchange, of which two in lei and two in euro.
Romania's finance ministry will be launching two new bond issues for the general population, under the Tezaur program, with one-year and three-year maturities, available for subscription in the period April 4-27.
Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, stagnated on Friday (April 1) at Thursday’s level of 4.6% a year, as per central bank data.
Romania's public debt reached RON526.6 billion (EUR107.5 billion) at the end of April (EUR107.5 billion), accounting for 49.9% of the gross domestic product after just four months, as the government's cap on public debt for the full year stands at 55% of GDP.
The average net salary in Romania grew 0.4% in nominal terms in April 2021 compared with March 2021, to 3,561 lei (around EUR723), data from the country's statistics board showed Friday.
Investors on the Bucharest Stock Exchange stepped up their trading activity in May and the average daily value of transactions with all types of financial instruments doubled compared with April.
New consumer loans in lei reached more than RON2.52 billion in Romania in April 2021, the highest level in 14 years and 4.3 times higher than in April 2020.
Retail sales in Romania, excluding vehicle sales, grew 5% on the month in April and by 1.2% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, data from the country’s statistics institute showed Friday.
Romania’s five regional investment funds SIFs listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange saw a 2.3% growth in combined net assets to RON10.5 billion in April 2021, considering that all five SIFs saw increases, according to Ziarul Financiar (ZF).
Romania's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 5.7% in April 2021, lower by 0.1% than the 5.8% level reported in April 2020, data from the country's statistics board showed Monday.
Private lending in Romania grew 1% in nominal terms and 0.6% in real terms in April 2021 compared with March 2021, to RON293.559 billion, central bank data showed Thursday.
Romania's annual inflation rate stood at 3.2% in April 2021 compared with April 2020, data from the country's statistics board showed Thursday.
The air transport industry was directly hit by the pandemic, with the number of flights drastically reduced starting March 2020, and the most recent figures on commercial flights show no clear signs of recovery in April 2021, Eurostat data showed Wednesday.
Nearly 30,000 new job openings were listed on online recruiting platform BestJobs in April, mostly in IT, sales, and finance, and the number of remote working positions doubled compared with April 2020.
Romania's foreign exchange reserves grew to EUR38.304 billion at the end of April from EUR35.709 billion at the end of March, central bank data showed Tuesday.
Romanian airline Blue Air introduces two daily Bucharest – London Heathrow flights starting April 30, it announced Thursday.