Next week at the latest “Kremikovtzi” will be sold, announced the minister of economy and energy Peter Dimitrov for BNR. Yesterday Dimitrov sent a letter to “Arcelor Mittal” in which he invited the company to operate in “Kremikovtzi”. If “Arcelor Mittal” has interest in the management of “Kremikovtzi”, we are ready to assist for the holding of talks with the trade unions, said yesterday Dimitrov. още »

Tourism will be affected by the world financial crisis. The Institute for analyzes and assessment of tourism, however, does not expect such downturn in the main parameters and number of tourists that the countries with more expensive tourism than the Bulgarian one are supposed to expect. Rumen Draganov, director of the institute claimed for Focus agency that in percentage Bulgaria will be around the levels of this year and close to them. още »

The Romanian national gas company “Transgas” denied the information in the press according to which last week in Moscow the inclusion of Romania in the “South stream” project instead of Bulgaria had been discussed with “Gazprom”, claimed the Romanian company, informs BGNES.The statement of “Transgas” points out that at the invitation of the ambassador of Romania in Russia the general managers of the Romanian companies “Transgas” and “Romgas” have met on 16 October in Moscow with the management board of “Gazprom”. още »

The foreign direct investment in Bulgaria for the period January-August have decreased with 1,173 billion euro compared to the same period last year, said the Bulgarian minister of economy and energy Peter Dimitrov at an investment forum.According to last unrevised data, the investments in the period January-August are 2,980 billion euro or 8.8% of the GDP while for the same period in 2007 they were 4,154 billion euro or 14,4% of the GDP. още »

The real estate prices in Burgas have not been changed in the last 4-5 months. This was announced today by several real estate agencies, which actively work on the market. They share that for now there is no trend of a price decrease, but there's also no sign of increase.The main reason for the standstill of prices is the wariness of investors and buyers in the conditions of a global economic crisis. още »

We are starting to readjust taxi counters in the beginning of November, Lyudmil Lazarov, head of the biggest taxi companies in the capital "Ok Supertrance" announced, "Trud" reports. The firm has already made a decision for the increase of prices, he specified.The new tariff for 1 kilometer during the day will be 0,74 levs, while the night tariff - 0,90 levs. още »

The market of the agricultural production in Bulgaria has dropped to nothing, alarm producers from the region of Dobrich. According to experts at the moment there is no buying out and the main reason is the lack of funding of the trade companies. At this stage the banks refuse credits to them or reduce the credits. The traders are still calm that this year's harvest is in the barns. още »

15-20% decrease of foreign investment in Bulgaria, because of the world financial crisis, forecasted the director of the Agency for state investments Stoyan Stalev, cited by BNR (Bulgarian National Radio). According to him, there are still no signs of a need to cut work places, because of reduced foreign investment.The biggest direct investments in Bulgaria are connected with real estate, financial services and production. още »

The management board of the Bulgarian National Bank took a decision to release more resource for the commercial banks and for easing of the supported by them obligatory minimal reserves in the safety vault of the central bank, informed Money.bg.The level of the obligatory minimal reserves of the banks remains at 12% of the deposits. However, changes were undertaken according to which as reserve assets of the commercial banks will be accepted 50% of their ready cash. още »