The Romanian leu has slightly extended gains against the euro on January 5, 2026 and the country's central bank set the leu’s reference rate at 5.0905 units per euro, compared to 5.0985 units versus the euro on December 31, 2025.
Oil Terminal has concluded two major service contracts for 2026, with a combined value of RON130 million, according to the current report submitted to the capital market institution, the company has announced in a report sent to the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Monday (Jan. 5, 2026)
Romania's Competition Council has given green light to the notified acquisition of Honest Food SRL by Ovidiu Andries, Daniel Imbre, the Galea Family and Cristian Varodi.
Freedom24, a licensed European online broker that provides investors across the European Union with access to major stock markets in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, reported a 9% increase in its client base in Romania in 2025, up to more than 4,300 investors, per company data.
Romanian entrepreneurs Ovidiu Andries and Daniel Imbre, who founded and then sold Smart Diesel group in one of the biggest local deals, have entered the shareholding structure of Piata9, a hospitality business of Oradea.
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, as well as for companies' leu-denominated loans, started 2026 at 6.14%, in line with central bank data.
Investment company Oresa after 11 years sold its 49% stake in IT integrator RBC to MidEuropa Partners.
Grup EM, an energy sector business that includes Electromontaj and Iproeb, in the first nine months of 2025 posted RON881.5 million consolidated turnover, up 18% from the year-earlier period, supported by the dynamics of energy infrastructure projects.
Romgaz, Romania’s largest natural gas producer, at the end of December signed three term delivery gas sale contacts, two with Engie Romania and one with E.ON Energie Romania, totally worth almost RON147 million.
For the first time since 2010, all the 13 monitored areas in Bucharest went beyond EUR100,000 for an old three-room apartment. This has not happened since the real estate boom of 2008-2009.