July 16 (SeeNews) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Romania rose 18% year-on-year in the first five months of 2018, to 1.72 billion euro ($2 billion), the central bank said on Monday.
Equity investment (including estimated net reinvestment of earnings) amounted to 2.208 billion euro and inter-company lending totalled a negative net value of 488 million euro at the end of May, the central bank said in a statement, citing provisional data.
FDI into Romania increased by 1.5% in 2017 to an estimated 4.586 billion euro.
($= 0.8599 euro)