SKOPJE (Macedonia), February 5 (SeeNews) – Macedonia’s trade deficit fell to $2.509 billion (1.8 billion euro) in 2012 from $2.552 billion in the previous year, the national statistics office said on Tuesday.

SKOPJE (Macedonia), February 5 (SeeNews) – Prices in Macedonian restaurants and hotels in January rose 0.5% on the year and were 0.1% higher on the month, the national statistics office said on Tuesday.

BANJA LUKA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), February 5 (SeeNews) – PREF, the manager of the state pension fund of Bosnia's Serb Republic, said on Tuesday it would auction a block of 159,911 shares, equal to a stake of 8.19% in local company Plasmo [BAN…

BUCHAREST (Romania), February 5 (SeeNews) – Romanian heavy machines manufacturer UCM Resita [BSE:UCM] turned to a preliminary net profit of 3.2 million lei ($988,000/731,200 euro) last year from a net loss of 328 million lei in 2011, it said on Tuesday.

BELGRADE (Serbia), February 5 (SeeNews) – Shanghai-based solar module developer and producer Upsolar said on Tuesday it teamed up with Slovenian solar service provider Plan-net Solar to enter the markets of Serbia and Croatia.

BUCHAREST (Romania), February 5 (SeeNews) – The Romanian leu ended slightly weaker versus the euro on Tuesday without much oscillation, dealers said.

BUCHAREST (Romania), February 5 (SeeNews) – Liechtenstein-based Domtech Holding has taken over Romanian IT&C products and household appliances trader Domo Retail, a publication in Romania's official gazette indicated.

BUCHAREST (Romania), February 5 (SeeNews) – Romanian stock market indices closed higher on Tuesday with the ROTX index being the only exception, as daily turnover rose, bourse data showed.

ZAGREB (Croatia), February 5 (SeeNews) – Croatia's transport ministry said it has received seven expressions of interest to participate in the restructuring of state-owned rail freight carrier HZ Cargo.