Customs Agency expects over 8 billion levs income in 2008. This was announced by its Director Hristo Kulishev during a discussion. For the period January - October the income of the Agency is over 7 billion levs.Only from taxes the customs have gathered over 3 billion levs, while from VAT tax from import - over 3,5 billion.The increase of income from fuel taxes is 22 percent, from cigarettes - nearly 25 percent, from alcohol - 55 percent and from automobiles - 56 percent. още »

The price of real estate in Bulgaria for now remains stable, despite the record decrease on a global scale for the last quarter, caused by the financial crisis. These are the results of a survey of the British real estate consulting company "Knight Frank".Great Britain, which marks a decrease of real estate prices of 4.6 percent for the last quarter, is one of the worst affected countries along with Latvia, Norway and Canada. още »

The stock exchange in Sofia opened with a growth and large purchases of shares of "Zarneni hrani Bulgaria" and "Sopharma". Thus the growth trend since the last two sessions continues. The turnover of the first deals was for over 350 000 euro with the basis for this result being the transfer of more than 280 thousand shares of "Sopharma". The indexes went up with SOFIX nearly reaching 9%. още »

Bulgaria, Romania and other economies on the Balkan peninsular will face hardships because of the global economic slump, which will lead to an increase of unemployment for the first time in many years. The forecast was made by the authoritative issue "Wallstreet journal".According to a publication in the paper, work places will be made redundant not only in the internal market, but also among the millions of emigrants from the Balkans in the countries facing recession like Spain, Italy and Great Britain. още »

The Confederation of the employers and the industrialists in Bulgaria “The voice of the Bulgarian business” will hold a General session of the members of the organisation. Its chairman Ivo Prokopiev will present a suggestion for an Anti-crisis plan for Bulgaria.The ideas and the measures, set in it, are generated during a round table conducted on 20 November in which more than hundred company' representatives took part. още »

The Austrian consortium “Doppelmayr” shows interest in the construction of the cable car facility over the Danube connecting the Bulgarian town of Ruse with the Romanian town of Giurgiu, informs dnevnik.bg.The company has submitted a written statement to the municipality of the Romanian town. This announced Michail Milchev, director of the Agency for sustainable development of Ruse and the region. още »

There will be lay offs in the railroad sector because of the financial crisis, Transport Minister Petar Mutafchiev announced. The Ministry has developed a quick anti-crisis programme, because serious difficulties are expected, BNR announced.How many people will be laid off depends on what investment programmes are available in the railroad transport, Mutafchiev added. още »

Lay offs started in two of the leading firms in Silistra - "Stomana" and "Fazerles". This was announced by the syndicate KNSB, cited by BNR.60 workers have already been laid off in "Stomana". According to the manager of the firm Nikola Mitikov, the orders of the firm producing wood-processing machines, have been diminishing since spring 2008.Because of the drastic limitations of the European market, one of the technological lines in the wood-processing firm "Fazerles" will be stopped. още »

Representatives of the Brazilian company CSN, which is expressing interest in buying "Kremikovtzi", will arrive today in Bulgaria. They expressed their interest during the recent visit of the Economy Minister Petar Dimitrov in Sao Paolo.Back then people from "Kremikovtzi" explained that the Brazilian company, being a big producer of iron ore, is interested in having a factory in Europe. още »