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…

PODGORICA (Montenegro), February 5 (SeeNews) – Montenegro has received a single bid in its tender for partial privatisation and/or recapitalisation of tobacco firm Novi Duvanski Kombinat Podgorica (DKP) – from a consortium led by local construction …

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.

CHISINAU (Moldova), February 5 (SeeNews) – Moldova sold 140 million lei ($11.6 million/8.6 million euro) in three Treasury bill issues, as yields fell, the central bank said on Tuesday.

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.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), February 5 (SeeNews) – Bulgarian stock market indices closed mostly higher on Tuesday, as turnover fell, bourse data showed.