The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) won 5.28 billion RON from the capitalization, 2.3 pct respectively, in the first week of 2022, and the value of the transactions with shares registered a decrease of 12 pct, compared to the previous week, according to the data published by BVB.The market capitalization reached 234.363 billion RON in the period 3 - 7 January 2022, from 229.078 billion RON recorded in the week of 27 - 31 December 2021.The transactions with shares generated a turnover of 129.897 million RON in the said week, down from 147.779 million RON in the previous week.The best trading day at BVB was Wednesday, January 5, when there was a turnover of 36.69 million RON, and the worst day, Friday, January 7, with a transaction value of 16.6 million RON. The main index of the Bucharest Stock Exchange - BET - closed the week at 13,156.95 points. Banca Transilvania's shares were the most liquid securities on the main segment of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, generating transactions of 28.694 million RON and a 1.36 pct increase in the share of the market.Teraplast securities are also in the top of transactions, with exchanges of 11.443 million RON (+9.55%), followed by Nuclearelectrica shares, with transactions of 10.050 million RON (-0.11%).The most significant increases in quotations were recorded by Carbochim shares (+47.37 pct), those of Promateris (+25 pct) and Alro securities (+13.33 pct).At the opposite pole, important drops were recorded by the shares of the Electrocontact Industrial Group, which registered a decline of 13.51 pct, followed by those of the House of Bucovina - Club de Munte (-8.67 pct) and of Rompetrol Rafinare (-6.71 pct).
Participation in cultural education activities continues to be limited, with the main barriers being difficult access, insufficient knowledge, and cost, the recently released Cultural Consumption Barometer 2024 shows. The report showed that many Romanians still associate culture with entertainment rather than with personal development or furthering their knowledge. The need for relaxation dominates in cultural […]
Roughly 84% of Romanians say that the pace of the state’s digitalization is slow or very slow, according to an Edge Institute & AtlasIntel study presented at the Digital Governance Summit 2025, which took place on Tuesday, November 25, at the presidential palace in Bucharest. The survey aims to capture the way citizens relate to […]
Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) issued a negative opinion on the new bill regarding magistrates’ pensions. The move is only the latest development concerning a heated issue that led to tensions between the executive and the judiciary branch. CSM’s opinion is consultative, and the government led by Ilie Bolojan can still take responsibility for […]
Romania took the presidency of the Central European Initiative (or CEI) on Wednesday, November 26, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The organization is a regional intergovernmental forum established in 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It gathers 17 Member States in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe […]
Trade between Romania and Poland continues to grow, with annual bilateral exchanges in goods now valued at more than EUR 12 billion, according to figures presented by the Polish-Romanian Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PRBCC). The data was released during a reception in Bucharest marking Poland’s Independence Day and Romania’s National Day. Polish investments […]
As Romania moves closer to implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, local employers are preparing for one of the most consequential shifts in workplace regulation in over a decade. The directive, set for transposition by June 2026, introduces strict new rules on salary disclosure, pay reporting, and equal-pay verification, aiming to close persistent gender gaps […]
