Slowdown
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Analysts: Lending growth will slow down to 5% in 2009
Analysts foresee a significant slowdown in lending in 2009 and even a deceleration of around 5% compared with 2008, which will implicitly lead to a decline in consumption and make an impact over the economic growth rate, whilst constructions and retail will be...
Analysts foresee a rapid slowdown for retail credit
Higher interest rates, as a result of the international crisis, tougher measure for funding, as stated in the new regulation of the NBR (National Bank of Romania), and the wide comparison ba...
Arcelor Mittal Construction: Sales slowdown since April
Arcelor Mittal Construction Romania (AMC Romania), the construction supplies manufacturing division of Arcelor Mittal Group has been witnessing the slowdown of its turnover growth rate since...
Non-government credit sees surprising slowdown
Private lending saw a surprising slowdown in July, the first decline since January 2007, amid a significant slowdown in foreign-currency lending. Sums saved by the population and by companie...
Mortgage loans, sharp slowdown in May
Mortgage and real estate loans continued to slow down in May for the sixth month in a row, with the monthly increase down to a mere 195 million RON (53 million euros), from the 1.1 billion-R...
Slowdown of car sales could hurt leasing market
The rise of the leasing market could be affected this year by the slowdown in vehicle sales, after the leasing market experienced a major leap last year, by 54%, exceeding 4.9 billion euros....
Savings slowdown since start of the year
The Romanian currency has become even less appealing for deposits despite NBR's efforts to tighten its monetary policy since autumn in order to encourage savings. In addition, foreign curren...
Car market shows no signs of a slowdown
In January, sales of new cars soared by almost 43% against the same period in 2007, and overturned the expectations of most players on the market, after a 5% growth rate was announced. Impor...
Mortgage lending slowdown in November again
Real estate and mortgage lending further slowed down in November 2006, for the second month in a row. The amount of these loans in November 2006 rose by only 3.8%, to 7.83 billion RON (2.28...