Markets

Hungary’s Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) has placed a HUF 30 billion lot of 3-month discount Treasury bills (D120104) on auction on Tuesday, on which it received HUF 145.2 bn bids from primary... 

The composition of the BUX basket of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) will change as of 1 October. Rába will leave the local benchmark, while OTP’s weight in the index will rise by nearly four percentage... 

The Heineken Balaton Sound Festival at a fancy beach on the southern shore of Lake Balaton set a new record this year, as it registered more than 100,000 guests, main organiser Norbert Lobenwein told local... 

Hungary’s Richter Gedeon has announced on Thursday that based on a commission given to UniCredit Bank Zrt. on 11 November it acquired 5,000 Richter treasury shares at an average price of HUF 45,604... 

The Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) has announced on Friday that it plans to extend its trading hours by 30 minutes as of 1 December 2010. Portfolio.hu has already reported on this change earlier this week.... 

Hungary’s Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) has received HUF 110.5 billion worth of bids for a HUF 40 bn lot of 3-month discount Treasury bills on offer at an auction on Tuesday. The issuer... 

Hungary’s Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) sold 12-month discount Treasury bills at an average yield of 5.80% on Thursday, up 15 basis points from Wednesday’s benchmark fixing. HUF 50... 

The benign investor sentiment witnessed last Friday is likely to continue today, at least in the first half of the day, so Hungary’s forint may firm to around 280 versus the euro. With US markets... 

The in-line rate cut by Hungary’s central bank (NBH) has triggered a moderate forint firming. The Monetary Council lowered the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 5.50% today, as expected.... 

Hungary’s forint corrected in tandem with its regional peers on Thursday and kicked off Friday’s session at these slightly weaker levels against the euro. The moderate easing of CEE currencies... 

Hungary’s Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) has received HUF 127 billion worth of bids from primary dealers on HUF 40 bn 12-month discount Treasury bills (D110126) at an auction on Thursday.... 

The stock exchanges of Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague and Vienna have started to operate as equal subsidiaries of the holding company CEESEG AG as of 14 January, the Wiener Börse (Vienna Stock Exchange) has... 

Sentiment on global money and capital markets was less sanguine on Tuesday than the first trading day of the year and the same goes for the early Wednesday session, as well. Stock markets have lost some... 

Hungary’s forint opened in illiquid-looking trading on Monday largely where it left off on Friday. Main Asian stock indices moved mixed at dawn (Hungarian time), while the USD was steady versus the... 

Trading in the shares of telco company NordTelekom is to start on the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) on 15 December, the bourse has announced on Monday. “The Chief Executive Officer of the Budapest... 

Hungarian fuels group MOL has announced on Friday that one of its Board members sold nealry 3,000 MOL shares. László Akar, member of the Board of Directors of MOL sold 2,971 MOL shares at HUF 16,225... 

Although global investor sentiment has changed only marginally since the morning, Hungary’s forint firmed by over 0.5% to the euro, reaching 270 by late afternoon. The HUF’s regional peers... 

Global investor sentiment has brightened only marginally by Wednesday morning and so Hungary’s forint managed to strengthen only by a hair versus the euro relative to its late Tuesday levels. The... 

International jitters related to concerns over Dubai have let up since last Friday and Hungary’s forint has also started the week stronger. On the back of larger risk appetite Asian bourses ticked... 

10:45 a.m. The stock market slump witnessed this morning was followed by corrections worldwide. European stocks have recovered from major losses and are currently about 0.5% down compared with Thursday...