Nearly two hours after the beginning of the trading session, the indexes of the Bulgarian stock exchange (BSE) are on the negative side. Five minutes to 12am SOFIX decreased with 4.72% to 655.76 points. BG40 lost 2.67 of its value to 166.91 points. BGTR30 is down with 3.89% to 437.84 points. BGREIT fell with 5.36% to 67.14%.There are sales on the positions of Monbat and Chimimport. още »

The visits of electric plants are the newest trend in the tourism field in Italy. After the tours of wine cellars, castles, Roman sightseeings, the curious Italians turned their attention of the places where the man meets the technologies, informs ProntoSofia. A similar practice will be introduced in Bulgaria.Thousands of residents on the Apennines visit structures of the energy production, which are very often part of the dazzling scenery. още »

The preparation of a pilot project for local development of “Strandja” natural park gathered in Tsarevo municipality, Bulgaria the expert mission of foreign and local representatives, informs Expert.bg.Tatjana Rener from Slovenia, Terry O'Reagon from Ireland, experts from the Council of Europe and Peter Miladinov – head of unit in the Ministry of culture are visiting in order to work on a long-term strategy for the development of Strandja including the development of the culture of the reason. още »

The former chief of the Monetary fund Martin Zaimov claimed for money.bg that it was possible the world financial problems to lead to slowing of the economy, but he did not accept the option for a possible financial crisis in Bulgaria. According to Zaimov, the banks could have problems with profitability. Maritn Zaimov explained that in fact the economic power is already in the private sector and not in Bulgarian national bank. още »

Bulgarian banks have reported 1 billion levs profit for the first 8 months of the year. This was announced by the manager of Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) Ivan Iskrov for BNR (Bulgarian National Radio).The manager of the central bank surmised that by the end of the year the profit will reach 1,5 billion levs."The behavior of our banks shows that this will probably not be distributed as a dividend", the manager of BNB announced. още »

Sofia municipality will increase its capital in "Toplofikatsiya" - Sofia with up to 50 million levs. This was announced by the Chair of the Commission on agriculture policy of the Sofia municipal council Danail Kirilov, cited by BNR (Bulgarian National Radio).At the moment the official capital of the company is 107 million levs, as 58% belong to the municipality, while the other 42% - to the Ministry of Economy. още »

The construction of the highways “Struma” and “Maritsa” as well as the intermodal terminal in Sofia will start in 2009. This said Nelly Yordanova, head of the FP “Transport” in the Bulgarian transport ministry during the institution's Day of open doors, informed Darik radio.The construction of “Struma” highway is the most expensive project funded under the European program. още »

The total turnover of the Bulgarian stock exchange for the last 12 months (October 2007 - September 2008) amounts to 4.48 billion levs, according to data from Profit.bg. There were transactions for over 500 million levs in November, while a turnover of 480 and 420 million was reported in October 2007 and January 2008.The highest turnover was reported for December 2007, when securities for 1. още »

The leading index of Bulgarian stock exchange (BSE) sunk to under 700 points today after the shares of the leading companies highly depreciated. The drops are fact in a turnover of 1,5 million levs (750 000 EUR).The next psychological limit was broken after an hour and half of negative trade, during which sudden reductions were observed on the liquid positions. още »