The supply of remote jobs on the local market has increased in the last two weeks to 7.7% from 5%. After a long period of time, the first three regional cities - Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Brasov – are no longer able to surpass or match the supply of jobs in capital city Bucharest, in line with data from eJobs Romania.
Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, has surged to 4.36% a year on Friday (March 11, 2022), from 4.35% a year on Thursday (March 10), in line with central bank data.
From the end of February 2020, when the first case of coronavirus was recorded in Romania, and until the end of February 2022, the Romanian capital market increased by 55% when looking at the BET-TR index, which includes dividends, and by 39% when taking into account the BET index, as per a stock market report.
Brick Romania, a local DIY and home improvement retailer of Constanta, will open the fifth store of the network next week, in Satu Mare, with this being the first project carried out in western Romania, in the wake of a EUR4 million investment.
Passenger car registrations rose by 39.5% in the first two months of 2022 against 2021, according to data from Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association (APIA). EVs posted an 84.9% increase, holding a 17.4% market share.
Antrepreneur Adrian Badescu, owner of Medici’s clinics of Timispara, expects the hospital he’s building in the center of Timisoara to treat the first patients in mid-2023.
eMAG, the largest online retailer in Romania, has started construction of a more than 100,000-square-meter logistics center in Hungary, where it merged with Extreme Digital in 2019.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.4% in the EU, compared with the previous quarter, according to a flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Romania's finance ministry on Thursday (March 10) raised RON817 million (EUR165.3 million), selling treasury bills and bonds maturing in April 2022 and July 2029, at annual average yields of 4.38% and 6.49%, respectively.