BRD invested almost 8 million euros to become shareholder of Mobiasbanca, the fifth leading lender in Moldova, getting a 20% stake as a result of its participation to a capital increase worth 11.5 million euros.
China's import from Moldova reached 248,000 US dollars in April 2008, and the import in January-April reached 626,000 US dollars, up 70.2 percent year on year.
The monthly minimum subsistence level in Moldova in their first quarter of this year was 1,315.3 lei for a person (US$133), an increase of 15% compared with yearend 2007.
The considerable discrepancy in exports and imports in the first five months of this year have led to the accumulation of a balance-of-trade deficit of US$1.281 billion, an increase of 54% (US$448.3 million) compared with the corresponding period last year.
Moldova's central bank has raised its key refinancing rate by 2.5 percentage points to 18.5 percent and altered commercial bank reserve requirements to help battle inflation in the ex-Soviet state.