Finance | 7 April, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Romania's central bank holds key rate at 6.50%
Romania's National Bank (BNR) board decided to maintain the monetary policy interest rate at 6.50% per year during Tuesday's meeting.
Romania's National Bank (BNR) board decided to maintain the monetary policy interest rate at 6.50% per year during Tuesday's meeting.
The National Bank of Romania's (BNR) Board of Directors decided on Monday to maintain the key interest rate at 6.50% per annum in its first monetary policy meeting of the year.
Romania's inflation remained at 9.7% at the end of 2025, with mixed pressures across different spending categories in December.
According to the NBR release, the annual inflation rate accelerated its decline in the first two months of Q2 2024, falling to 5.12 percent in May.
The World Bank has significantly downgraded its economic growth projections for Romania this year, lowering expectations to 0.5% from the 1.3% forecast issued at the start of 2026.
Foraj Sonde Videle has announced the acquisition of Raffles Energy, a British holding company that owns two Romanian energy companies active in natural gas and electricity production.
Econergy Renewable Energy has secured approximately €31 million in project financing from Kommunalkredit Austria to develop its 60 MW photovoltaic project in southeastern Romania.
Romanian software company Arobs Transilvania Software has completed the merger by absorption of five subsidiaries - Arobs Development & Engineering, Berg Computers, Nordlogic Software, Infobest Romania, and Centrul de Soft GPS.
The European retail sector faced a cooling period in February 2026, with the latest Eurostat data revealing a divergence between a stabilising Union and a sharply declining Romanian market.