Unemployment in Bulgaria decreased to 5.8% in August, the Employment Agency announced. In July the level of unemployment was 5.9%.The Social Minister Emilia Maslarova said that in 2009 the level of unemployment will be 5.6%.The Bulgarian government set a goal that unemployment to be lower than 7% in 2008. Several years in a row unemployment in Bulgaria has been decreasing. още »

The trade at the Bulgarian stock exchange on Thursday started discouragingly. After the initial decrease the indexes regenerated a little. Despite that SOFIX remains a step away from the 800 points, BG-40 is under 200 points. BGTR30 and BGREIT are also decreasing. The turnover is a little under 2 million levs.The most cleared positions are those of Himimport and Eurohold Bulgaria. още »

The rearrangement of the layers of the financial markets on one chain has an effect on the Bulgarian banker. For Bulgaria the short term effect will be not so much the sharp increase of interest rates, but difficulties in the receiving of bank credit. This was announced by Alexander Bojkov, who is a co-chair of the Center for economic development, in the Darik programme "Who is speaking". още »

Bulgaria takes the third position on salary growth for the second quarter of the year among the countries in the European Union, according to data by Eurostat, cited by Profit.bg. In Bulgaria the average work salary increases by 5.4% in the second quarter up to 510 levs per month (261 Euro), according to data from the National statistics institute (NSI). още »

Bulgaria is among the countries with highest inflation in the EU, a research conducted by Eurostat shows. Money devaluate at a rate of 11.8%, calculated in August, Bulgaria takes the third place, as higher levels are registered only in Lithuania and Latvia - respectively 12.2 and 15.6 percent.The average value for the 27 countries in the European Union for the same period is 4. още »

Bulgaria takes the 68th place in the world on economic freedom. This is according to data from the yearly report of the Canadian institute "Fraser" for 2008, distributed in Bulgaria by the Institute for market economy. The report puts Hong Kong in the first place, followed by Singapore and New Zealand. According to the survey Bulgaria climbs 6 places from last year's 74th position. още »

A shock increase of the price of electricity will be a fact after the elections next year. This was forecasted by the Chair of the Association of the producers of ecological energy Velizar Kiriyakov. According to him the increase will be somewhere around 10-15%. In Europe only Russia and Ukraine will sustain lower prices of electricity, but Bulgaria has no option to buy from them, Kiriyakov pointed out. още »

Italy is in the leading position of the black list of countries with highest percentage of tax misrepresentation, a survey of the association Contribuenti.it claims. The research was made together with Kris Network of Business Ethics.According to the survey the misrepresented taxes in Italy comprise 23% of the GDP of the country, ProntoSofia writes. още »

A negative tendency, resulting from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, was carried over the Bulgarian stock exchange. The indexes opened the week with a serious decrease of their values. SOFIX lost 3% down to 931, 2 points.There was a collapse of the market index BG40 - by 3,36% down to 226,364 points.The rest of the indexes in the stock exchange are also decreasing - BGREIT now reached 82,84 points, decreasing by 1,53%. още »