Romania - Factors to watch on March 18
18/03/2014 08:01
BUCHAREST, March 18 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Romanian financial markets on Tuesday. C/A BALANCE Romania's current account recorded a surplus of 388 million euros ($540.29 million) in January, 45 percent up from January 2013. Foreign direct investment rose to 244 million euros, up 8 percent from January 2013. ID:nR5E8FO01V DEBT TENDER Romania sold a planned 400 million lei ($123.51 million) in domestic bonds due in June 2019 at an average accepted yield of 4.94 percent against 5.10 pecent at a similar tender in February. ID:nL6N0ME2DF EGYPT WHEAT TENDER Egypt's main wheat-buying agency, the General Authority for Supply Commodities, set a tender on Monday to buy an unspecified amount of wheat from global suppliers for shipment April 11-20. ID:nL2N0ME1BB CEE MARKETS Central European assets rose on Monday after a referendum in Crimea passed without major violence and a party promising economic revival won power in Serbian elections. ID:nL6N0ME2CK For a schedule of forthcoming Romanian events, double click RO/DIARY , and a calendar of east European economic indicators, see CONV/DIARY . For other related news, double click on: --------------------------------------------------------------- Romania Market Debt RO-DBT Romanian forex RO-FRX Romania Market Report ROL/ Romanian money RO-M Emerging Market Debt EMRG/DBT Emerging forex EMRG/FRX All Emerging Markets news EMRG CEE indicators CONV/DIARY All East Europe News EEU E.Europe equities .CEE TOP NEWS -- Emerging markets TOP/EMRG TOP NEWS -- Convergence watch TOP/EAST Romanian indicators RO/ECI Main page of Reuters poll RO/POLL1 -------------------------------------------------------------- ($1 = 0.7181 Euros) ($1 = 3.2386 Romanian lei) (Compiled by Bucharest newsroom) ((radu.marinas@thomsonreuters.com)(+4021 305 5263)(Reuters Messaging: radu.marinas.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))