August 18 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in the online versions of Romanian media on Tuesday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
MEDIAFAX
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- German retailer Metro launched in July a leu-denominated bond issue worth 100 million lei ($33 million/24 million euro) to finance its operations in Romania, the company said.
- Prices in euro for new apartments in Romania’s capital fell by an average 15%-40% year-on-year in the first six months of 2009, reaching the levels recorded in 2005, according to CB Richard Ellis.
ZIARUL FINANCIAR
- Czech brokerage Wood & Company Financial Services has registered a subsidiary in Romania, according to the weekly bulletin of Romania’s stock market regulator CNVM.
- Romanian businessman Sandu Ion will invest six million euro ($8.4 million) in a plant for metallic confections and metallic sandwich panels for industrial spaces in Sfantu Gheorghe, central Romania, in a joint venture with British company Corus, according to data from Romania’s anti-trust body.
BUSINESS STANDARD
- The ruling coalition of the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) and Social Democratic Party (PSD) have agreed on a package of 32 anti-crisis measures. PSD’s President Mircea Geoană said that 15 of them are aimed at boosting the economy, nine target an increase in budget revenues, six envisage cutting public expenditure, and two should help raise monetary liquidity in the banking sector.
- The president of the Vienna Investment Trust brokerage firm, Adrian Simionescu, will acquire a 25% stake in the firm in a transaction worth more than 1 million euro, according to market sources.
(1 euro = 4.2194 Romanian lei)