Crypto ETPs reversed course last week, with outflows led by Bitcoin and Ether as bearish sentiment outweighed inflows into altcoins such as Solana. Crypto investment products reversed course last week from solid inflows to one of the largest outflow weeks on record amid persistent bearish market sentiment. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw $1.73 billion of outflows during the week, the biggest since mid-November 2025, CoinShares reported on Monday. “Dwindling expectations for interest rate cuts, negative price momentum and disappointment that digital assets have not participated in the debasement trade yet have likely fuelled these outflows,” said CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill. Read more
The average net salary in Romania stood at RON5,615 (EUR1,103) in November 2025, higher by 4.2% compared to November 2024, data from the country's statistical office INS showed on Friday (January 16, 2025).
Romania recorded the worst decline in retail trade volume of all the EU countries in November 2025, 4.6% compared with the year-earlier period, Eurostat data show. The only other countries to have recorded decline are Slovakia, Austria and Luxemburg.
Romania’s industrial producer price index (PPI) increased by 4.8% in November 2025 compared to November 2024, the country's statistical office INS said on Thursday (January 8, 2026).
Romania's unemployment rate reached 6% in November 2025, higher by 0.1 percentage points (pp) higher than in October 2025, the country's statistical office INS said on Thursday (January 8), quoting provisional data.
Household and company deposits with banks went up by 5.6% in November 2025 against the same month of 2024, reaching a total amount of almost RON650 billion as lei deposits rose by 1.4% and foreign currency ones, expressed in lei, advanced by 16%, in line with central bank data.
The annual growth pace of Romania private lending slowed down to 6.8% in November to a total amount of RON446.7 billion, after RON-denominated loans rose by 4.6% and foreign currency ones by 12.2%, in line with central bank data.
Romania posted the highest annual inflation rate, of 8.6%, among European Union (EU) Member States, in November 2025 as well, data from the European statistical office Eurostat showed on Wednesday (December 17).
Romania's annual inflation rate remained unchanged at 9.8% in November 2025 compared to October 2025 and slightly lower than the 9.9% peak reached in August and September 2025, data from the country's statistical office INS showed on Friday (December 12).
The average asking price of an old three-room apartment in Bucharest stood at EUR135,923 in November 2025, an increase of 0.7% or EUR1,000 in October.
Romania's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), calculated by Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR), dropped to 47.2 points in November 2025, from 47.6 points in October 2025, according to Austria's banking group Erste, owner of lender BCR in Romania.
Romania's foreign exchange reserves stood at EUR65.4 billion at the end of November 2025, almost the same as on October 31, EUR65.34 billion, Romania’s central bank announced on Tuesday (December 2, 2025).