Bucur Obor (BUCU.RO company, which manages the shopping center by the same name in Bucharest, made RON7.7 million net profit in the first half of 2024, an increase of 1.63% on the year-ago period, while revenue reached RON18.2 million, up 2.46%.
ING Bank has decided on Wednesday (August 14) to revise its growth forecast for Romania's economy in 2024 to 2% from its previous estimate of 2.8%, a level that is still deemed optimistic.
Infinity Capital Investments (INFINITY.RO), one of the five financial investment companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, posted RON104.7 million net profit in the first half of 2024 compared with RON18.4 million in the year-ago period.
The shares of three companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, namely, Premier Energy, Electromagnetica and Iproeb Bistrita, will be included in the MSCI Frontier and MSCI Romania indices. Romania's equity market presence in the MSCI indices will increase to 32 companies, starting on September 2, 2024, following the quarterly index review conducted by global index provider MSCI in August this year.
Practic Bucuresti (stock symbol: PRBU), one of the largest owners of retail space in Bucharest, on August 2024 announced net profit of RON19 million for the first half of 2024, up 23.2% on the year, and a turnover of RON23 million, up 10.6% on the year.
Plastic packaging producer Romcarbon (stock symbol: ROCE) switched to net loss of RON2.6 million, at the individual level, in the first half of 2024, compared with profit of RON5.2 million in the same period of 2023.
Republic of Moldova’s largest lender, MOLDOVA-AGROINDBANK (Maib), ended the January-June 2024 period with net profit of MDL694.3 million (equivalent to EUR36.1 million), up 5.6% year-over-year.
Santierul Naval Orsova (Orsova Shipyard-stock symbol: SNO) ended the first six months of 2024 with a turnover of RON54.7 million, up 24% on the year, and net profit of RON5 million, from net gain of RON506.386 recorded in the same interval of 2023, as per its half-yearly financial report released on August 14.