Investors safe haven during pandemics: Government bonds
Foto: Wavebreakmedia / depositphotos.com Sovereign bonds protected the non-bank financial market from risks caused by pandemics, and the aversion to risk of investors has come out during the crisis caused by COVID through their migration from stock markets to government securities. All these three financial non-banking sectors – capital market, private pensions market and insurance […]
Expansion of VGP’s Romanian footprint with 90,000 m2 new space under construction
VGP, the pan-European provider of high-quality logistics and semi-industrial real estate, is accelerating the expansion of its Romanian footprint by having launched the construction of three new buildings of about 30.000 m2 each in VGP Parks Arad, Brasov & Bucharest North. At European level, the Belgian developer just released the 2021/H1 results ending the semester […]
Moving in different paces
Foto: oneinchpunch / depositphotos.com When a person is freshly joining a new company, he is not yet conditioned so much by the new collective he is working in. This is not in itself a problem, at the contrary; new people have a fresh look on the company and can therefore be very useful to consult, […]
Total trading value breaks RON 10-billion ceiling as the Romanian capital market goes up 25%
The investors intensified their trading activity on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) pushing the cumulative value of transactions for all types of financial instruments to RON 10.4 billion, the equivalent of EUR 2.1 billion. This level corresponds to a growth rate of 56.6% compared to January-July last year. The average daily liquidity for all types […]
NRCC Behind the Scenes
Maurits Dohmen (NRCC Executive Director), Ana Popa (NRCC Operations), Costinel Radu (NRCC Task Forces/CDR) The Netherlands Romanian Chamber of Commerce represents the business interests of its members and Dutch companies in Romania. With so much going on in the forefront, it is sometimes easy to forget what goes on behind the scenes. So, let’s have […]
The Greek community celebrates the opening of a new clinic with Greek capital in Bucharest: ATENA Medical Center
August marked an important moment for the Greek community in Romania – the opening of a new medical centre with Greek capital, the Atena Medical Center clinic. Atena Medical Center is a multidisciplinary medical clinic offering a comprehensive range of premium medical services, located in Primăverii neighborhood, a central area of Bucharest. The variety and […]
Let’s talk about the weather…
My Romanian friends know that as a British person, talking about the weather comes easily to me. This has been particularly so after what, for me at least, has been a summer of lovely weather in Bucharest and in Scotland. It will however have escaped few of us that elsewhere in the world, people have […]
Trophy hunting
As an automotive journalist, I have often encountered the question: Which is the most expensive car? So … let me answer this question. In an attempt to group the cars by classes, taking as a criterion only Maslow’s Pyramid … we would probably start from something with four wheels that prosaically would be called “home […]
Growth booster on Bucharest Stock Exchange in the first half of the year: 12 new equity issuers and 16 new bond issues
The capital market is becoming more and more attractive for Romanian entrepreneurial businesses, which use the stock market to boost their growth. The first half of the year brought to the stock market 12 new equity issues. Also in the first half of this year, 16 new financial instruments were listed on the fixed income […]
Optimism, fears and hope
Rawpixel / depositphotos.com According to the latest business opinion polls, the main concerns of the company managers are: pandemics (52%), cyber threats (47%), over-regulation (42%), public policy uncertainty (38%) and uncertain economic growth (35%), a recent PwC study shows. Hence it is not just the pandemic that scares. The real economy is also afraid of […]