Foreign direct investments (FDI) increased in the first 11 months of 2019 by 2.55 pct over the similar period of last year, to 5.145 billion euro, according to data published on Monday by the National Bank of Romania (BNR).
The number of newly established companies with foreign capital dropped, in the first 11 months of 2019, by 2.11, compared to the similar period of last year, to 5,096 units, according to data centralized by the National Office of the Trade Register (ONRC).
The 5,096 new companies' share capital totalled 19.492 million dollar, decreasing by 58.2 pct over the January - November 2018 period.
The highest number of companies with foreign participation featured investors from Italy, namely 48,655, but the highest value of share capital is that of Dutch companies, namely 12.6 billion dollar, in 5,399 companies.
At the end of November 2019, in Romania there were 226,430 companies with foreign participation in the share capital the value of which was approximately 63.5 billion dollars.