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  • Bursa si SIF-urile pe plus

    Cele mai lichide titluri au fost SIF Moldova (SIF2), Amonil (AMO) si Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC). Actiunile SIF Moldova (SIF2) au fost tranzactionate la un pret de 0,685 lei pret in crestere cu 0,7% fata de referinta, Amonil (AMO) la un pret de 0,025 lei, cu 3,4% mai mic fata de valoarea nominala, iar Rompetrol Rafinare au fost cotate la un pret de 0,045 lei, pret cu 0,4% peste referinta.

     

    Cele mai mari cresteri ale pretului de tranzactionare au fost inregistrate de Mechel Targoviste (COS) cu 11,8% si Socep (SOCP)cu 6,7%. Petrolexportimport (PEI) a avut o scadere a pretului de tranzactionare cu 12%.

     

    Titlurile celor cinci societati de investitii financiare (SIF) au crescut in medie cu 1,56%, iar titlurile companiilor din sectorul energetic au adus o crestere a indicelui BET-NG cu 0,4%.

     

    Ultimele tranzactii cu cele mai lichide zece actiuni de la BVB au fost realizate la preturi care au crescut in medie cu 0,5%, iar indicele extins al Bursei, BET-XT, care analizeaza evolutia primelor 25 de titluri in functie de lichiditate, inclusiv SIF-urile, era cotat la inchidere cu 0,8% peste referinta.

     

    Evolutia pietei de la Bucuresti a fost determinata de cea a marilor burse europene, care au inchis in crestere cu 0,9% – 2,1%. Bursele din Asia au incheiat sedinta de joi in crestere cu 0,4-2,2%.
     

  • Radu Furnica: Trebuie sa stim de pe acum cum ne vedem peste 20-30 de ani

    "Trebuie sa stim incotro ne indreptam ca sa stim pe unde s-o luam a spus Furnica. Cel mai important lucru e orientarea strategica pe termen lung, sortarea prioritatilor in economie si apoi investitii in acele sectoare cu prioritate. Serviciile importante in care trebuie facute investitii sunt educatia, sanatatea si administratia serviciilor publice", crede Furnica.

  • Sailing again

    Millionaires are tired of not spending and yacht producers have been quick to react, launching more products that ever. A stroll in the marinas and harbours on the Mediterranean is enough to take the pulse of the economy. Two years ago, the harbour of Monte Carlo was a permanent exhibition of mega-yachts that used to bring the rich and famous to their favourite love nest. This happened at the time when the economy was booming and yachts were one of the symbols of the social status for which businesspeople often led a fi ercer battle than that for a company takeover. Meanwhile, the fi nancial crisis has tempered the consumers’ appetite for the biggest, most expensive, most powerful yacht, and marinas in some cases have become sale showrooms.

     

    For instance, the marina of Varazze, Italy, where every second ship displays the ”Vende” (for sale) sign. In this context, the yacht market has coped with strong winds, even storms in some cases. Ferretti, one of the biggest yacht producers, which in 2007 was acquired by Britain’s Candover investment fund, was on the point of entering under the Italian state’s control because of debts. The French producer of luxury yachts Couach has fi led for bankruptcy protection. ”The yacht market dropped by 20-30%, and in the November 2008-February 2009 period it was completely blocked,” explains Paolo Vitelli, founder and CEO of Azimut-Benetti group, the world’s biggest producer of yachts, which in 2008 produced ships worth 960m euros. Vitelli says the group was somewhat more sheltered from the storm because of the family business structure and the decision not to get listed.

     

    The company’s founder admits the company’s activities were reshuffl ed, costs were slashed and everything was rationalised. The effects were visible at the third edition of the Azimut-Benetti Yachting Gala, an event the group organises annually for dealers and clients. However, Vitelli maintains the market is showing signs of a rebound. ”The very rich, though they lost 20-30% of their wealth, have got tired of not spending. As a result, the high-end market is coming back to life”. As for the medium segment, the founder of Azimut-Benetti says it is made up of a category of clients that was rather psychologically affected by the crisis. To relaunch sales, the company sealed a contract with CGMER, a fi nancial group specialising in fi nancing services for yacht owners.

  • Fire of change ?

    After all, the crisis is beneficial in one way: real estate developers will have more time from now on to structure their projects more carefully and they have already ”started to also seek input from a manager again as they used to in 2003-2004,” Lucian Anghel, managing partner and founder of Building Support Services (BSS), one of the leading office building and logistic space management companies, said in a conversation with BUSINESS Magazin.

     

    In his opinion, the new office buildings erected in major cities are of a lower quality than those built at the beginning the real estate boom. ”It was the rush to build and sell as fast as possible, it was the dwindling labour supply. They were erected to be sold fast,” the BSS head said without referring to any project in particular. The recent fire at the Millennium Business Center, a building whose manager BSS is, brought to the forefront again the opinions voiced by managers or consultants in this field over time, who were mentioning, off the record, problems found at some buildings in the Capital after completion.

     

    ”The more sophisticated a market becomes, the better the buildings will become, that is normal. However, if you sell a building it does not mean its quality is poor; there were developers who used to build well five years ago, and still do, and there are others who do not build that well. Very important here is the manager of the project,” says Hora]iu Florescu, chairman of The Advisers and the most experienced office space rental broker.

     

    In the days after the fire at the office building close to the Armenian Church, many brought up the issue of the small distance between the building and the church, as well as the material the faÁade was made from, which allowed the fire to spread quickly, and the lack of sprinklers on the floors of the building. ”No one expected a fire to start from the outside,” BSS manager comments.

     

    Lucian Anghel adds that the construction regulations in force do not stipulate the mandatory installation of sprinklers ”unless the thermal load exceeds a certain level”, with the thermal load established based on the materials used for every floor. Since the tenants of an office building are free to use whatever furniture they like for their space, the initial calculation loses some of its relevancy. ”There were hydrants on every floor, anyway,” Anghel says. ”I am convinced, however, that from now on much harsher regulations in this field will be issued.”

  • See you in ten years

    ENERGY

    Going green –  Renewable energy, of course – no one talks about anything else. This goes for Romania, too, though for a while we will not feel as much pressure to radically replace traditional energy sources with green ones as others do. What kind of energy, then? Currently, 29% of production comes from renewable sources: the high-yield hydroelectric power, which allowed Romania to look like it had complied with EU’s directions.

     

    When it comes to other types of renewable energy, Romania is the country with the lowest investments in the EU, and its luck of having hydroelectric power is up to the flow of rivers, which is dwindling, and with it so is the willingness of international organisations to accept hydropower as renewable energy. Therefore the green future of the Romanian energy is connected to wind, sun and biomass.

     

    For now, gas and coal are the preferred sources, which are highly pollutant and generate 70% of the energy production. However, ”Wind is Romania’s biggest chance for green energy,” believes Ondrejs Safar, who supervises the installation of 240 wind turbines at Fantanele Wind Farm, as part of a CEZ project to build a 600 MW installed power (equal to one nuclear reactor of Cernavod=) wind farm in Dobrogea.

    IT

    Reality of virtual reality  – The dream of smart homes and offices is still on the mind of those who imagine the evolution of technology in the next decade. Guided by technology every minute and constantly connected to the Internet, the man of the future seems like a part of an ever-expanding virtual gear. Adobe Romania’s CEO Alexandru Costin, believes that we are now at a crossroads in every fi eld and especially in IT, when the speed at which knowledge is acquired and innovation is applied has become exponential. He thinks this speed will maintain for decades from now on.
     

    TELECOM
     Universal gadget –  Over the coming years, the phone will continue its metamorphosis, from a mobile terminal we can use to talk to sort of a Swiss army knife capable of doing everything. Or at least something more than it does today. Mihnea {erbu, senior product manager of Orange Romania says, ”The phone will continue its transformation along with the technology: camera, internal memory, screen, size and uses.” Therefore we will have a portable computer on our hands: ”We will soon see a phone that will be part of the computer family, equipped with processor, graphics memory or hard drive.”

     

    LABOUR MARKET
     Fle-xi-bi-li-ty – How we will work in the future will obviously depend on the health of the world economy. Yet demand for productivity and efficiency will increase, regardless of the context. A phenomenon, though helped by the crisis, which was already a trend, is the shift from permanent employment contracts to working with independent contractors. The shift to this system will also entail adjusting internal processes of companies. Most contracts with independent contractors are signed for singular projects, which generates fl exibility both for companies – which can get top specialists without having to hire them for an indefinite period of time and for specialists, who can choose only those projects they are interested in.
     

  • Teo Paduraru: firmele care puteau da faliment au fost lasate sa dea

    "In Romania exista cateva sute de mii de intreprinderi mici si mijlocii nu foarte sanatoase, cu o structura bazata pe o cerere care nu mai e de actualitate. Toate firmele care puteau da faliment au fost lasate sa dea si s-a trecut la sustinerea economie folosindu-se de importuri. ANAF a inceput o campanie de inchidere a companiilor cu datorii mari sau mici de stat care nu e foarte benefica", precizeaza Paduraru.

  • Cosmin Alexandru: e sosit vremea prioritizarii

    Desi nu sunt bani si guvernul nu poate investi in toate domeniile, el recomanda stabilirea a 2-3 domenii prioritare, pentru ca mediul privat sa stie unde trebuie sa se eficientizeze si focaliza. "Criza a venit din domeniul imobiliar, acolo unde s-a realizat un blocaj al pietei. La momentul actual pentru a o debloca trebuie reduse preturile pana cand vanzarile si cumpararile sunt repornite. Multi dezvoltatori inca tin preturile sus blocand piata si afectand astfel piata mobilei si cea a materialelor de constructii", spune Alexandru. El considera ca proiectul „Prima Casa” nu e o masura care va reusi sa reporneasca economia.

  • Marius Stancescu: Avem nevoie ca banii sa circule in economie

    "Mediul privat trebuie sa cresca productivitatea si sa reduca cheltuielile pentru a suporta mai usor criza. Guvernul trebuie sa inteleaga ca trebuie o infuzie de bani in economie, care sa fie investiti in anumite domenii care pot aduce bani la buget si prin care se poate controla inflatia si deflatia", a mai precizat Stancescu.

  • Razboiul dintre Microsoft si Google poate duce la o scadere a preturilor calculatoarelor

    Google a anuntat ca va oferi gratuit noul sistem de operare Google Chrome Operating System (OS) ce va fi lansat in a doua jumatate a lui 2010, o miscare ce ar putea declansa un razboi al preturilor intre acesta si Microsoft, informeaza Reuters.

    Desi Windows este sistemul de operare instalat pe 90% dintre calculatorele lumii, Microsoft nu va ignora initiativa Google, au declarat analistii.Noul sistem de operare Windows 7 va fi disponibil din luna octombrie a acestui an.

    “Strategia Microsoft  va fi aceea de a concura la pret”, a declarat analistul Brent Williams .”Se afla in fata unui competitor cu putere si recunoastere mondiala. Si acesta e Google”.

    Google a declarat ca noul Chrome OS, un sistem de operare de tip “open source” (ceea ce le permite utilizatorilor externi sa modifice programul), va putea fi folosit pe orice computer, dar pentru inceput exclusiv pe netbook-uri. Este de inteles ca gigantul Google se lanseaza in prima faza pe aceasta nisa, a netbook-urilor, unul dintre putinele segmente ce inregistreaza o crestere pe piata PC-urilor, o piata ce se contracta din ce in ce mai mult.

    Analistul Shaw Wu a atras atentia asupra faptului ca in timp ce preturile pentru majoritatea componentelor sunt in scadere, singurul ce nu a suferit o micsorare a pretului este sistemul de operare, lucru ce ar putea pune presiune asupra Microsoft.

    In acelasi timp, analistul Gartner sustine ca miscarea Google nu prezinta nici un risc pentru Microsoft, aratandu-se sceptic in privinta unei eventuale scaderi bruste de pret din partea Microsoft.

    “Microsoft va raspunde la acest lucru, daca il vor considera o amenintare. Dar netbook-urile se livreaza deja de multa vreme avand instalat Windows XP si chiar se comporta mai bine in comparatie cu Linux, chiar daca are un pret mai mare”.

  • Pe umerii cui sta relansarea economiei prin „Prima casa”: doi batrani care au incasat 54.000 de euro

    Daca banii se intorc la banca, efectul e zero. Toata relansarea economiei pe care Guvernul si-a fundamentat acest proiect se limiteaza la un aparat de aer conditionat, mobila si celelalte investitii minore pe care tinerii le vor face in apartamentul cumparat ieri.

    BRD-SocGen a acordat ieri primul credit prin programul „Prima casa", prin care doi tineri au achizitionat pentru 54.500 de euro un apartament de doua camere intr-un bloc vechi din cartierul Colentina, din Bucuresti.

    Cei doi pensionari care au vandut apartamentul vor pune banii intr-un depozit la banca. Tinerii cumparatori sunt ingineri si lucreaza la Renault.

     

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