Romania must develop stronger and more liquid financial markets to support economic growth, World Bank experts said told a conference on capital markets, which was held in Bucharest. read more...

Retail investors submitted orders in value of 4.152 billion lei ( over 937 million euros) following Romgaz public offer, on this side the offer being oversubscribed by nearly 15 times over, representatives of some brokerage houses told. read more...

According to some market sources, businessman Alin Tatu yesterday sold his 5% stake in SIF1 Banat Crişana, in a trade on the "Deal" tier of the market, following a spectacular hike on the quotations of the market. read more...

The administration council of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) decided to dismiss BVB general manager Victor Cionga from office, with his mandate expiring in two months, according to a release published on the BVB website. read more...

Over the last trading sessions, Manchester Securities, a company controlled by American hedge fund "Elliott Associates", has acquired over 73 million shares of the Proprietatea Fund (FP), representing over 0.5% of its share capital. read more...

Investments in the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) top-liquid shares posted an average return of 16.56 percent this year, as measured by the BET index that tracks the performance of the top-liquid 10 issuers, compared to other financial investments. read more...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) is starting today trading a new issue of Government benchmark bonds issued by the Finance Ministry. read more...

Like never before, there was no scandal at the General Shareholder Meeting of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, all of the proposals went through without any objections, and the extraordinary shareholder meeting wasn't even held due to a lack of quorum. read more...

The public stock exchange bid for the package of the Romanian Transelectrica electricity supplier has all possibly successful spices, Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) president Lucian Anghel said on Wednesday when I began the bid to last over March 14-27. read more...

"Fondul Proprietatea" (FP) is far from being a "bargain" for investors, the analysts of "Erste Group Research" say, as they their target price for the fund's stock by 30%, to 0.51 lei/share. Nevertheless, the estimate of "Erste" is 18% higher than the current quotation of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, and analysts recommend accumulating shares in the fund. read more...

The Board of the Bucharest Stock Exchange has postponed for today the decision concerning the summoning of a new General Shareholder Meeting, to discuss the amendment of the change of the company's articles of incorporation by introducing the dual management. The members of the Board will also ask for the opinion of the Romanian National Securities Commission on the matter. read more...

The Senate rejected yesterday President Traian Basescu’s request to speed up the procedures needed in order to list on the Bucharest Stock Exchange the companies that are part of the Property’s Fund (FP) portfolio, a fund whose majority shareholder is the Romanian state, Mediafax informs. read more...

The process by which the Romanian state sells 9.84% of the shares held by the Economy Ministry in oil company Petrom starts on Monday. The offer is mediated by a consortium of banks formed around Renaissance Capital Limited, held 50% by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov through the Onexim Group Investment Fund. read more...

City of London Investment Management owns 5.85% of the Proprietatea Fund shares a press release of the Bucharest Exchange reads. The company owns 134.08 million shares of the Fund and 668.200 of the warrants of UniCredit Bank. Each such warrant is convertible in 1,000 shares at Proprietatea Fund. read more...

Fondul Proprietatea (Property Fund - FP.RO) shares lost 6.5% in the beginning of yesterday's session, after the ex dividend day, but gained back 4% towards the end, amid unofficial information that the Government would not start to make compensation payments yet. read more...

Almost 1.5 billion Fondul Proprietatea (FP) shares, accounting for 10.7% in the capital of the fund might be transferred by the Finance Ministry to those people who hold compensation deeds and have chosen to have them converted into shares at an average price of 0.6176 lei/share, according to the data supplied by the National Authority for Property Restitution (ANRP). read more...

The net profit of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) stood at some 530,000 euros (2.2 million lei) in Q1 2011, down by 11% compared with that recorded in the same period of 2010, according to the financial results published by the company. read more...

Bourse companies' shareholders this week are discussing the disbursement of dividends from last year's profits, with over 2.4bn lei (580m euros) being at stake. read more...

SIF Oltenia (SIF5), Banca Transilvania (TLV) and Zentiva Bucureşti (SCD) are currently among the most "expensive" shares on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in terms of minimum amounts investors have to spend to buy a stake. read more...

Shares of Intercontinental Bucureşti (RCHI) hotel company have skyrocketed on the Bourse over the past month amid rising transactions. The company has budgeted profit for this year, after nine consecutive years of losses. read more...