LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), January 14 (SeeNews) – Slovenian reinsurer Sava Re said on Monday it plans to pay out 30% of its 2013 net earnings as dividend next year and to raise that share to 40% by 2017.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 14 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria's EU-harmonised consumer prices rose 2.8% on the year in December after climbing 2.7% in November, the National Statistics Institute (NSI) said on Monday.

PODGORICA (Montenegro), January 14 (SeeNews) – The net inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Montenegro rose 9.1% on the year to a preliminary 344.1 million euro ($456.8 million) in the first ten months of 2012, the central bank said.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 14 (SeeNews) – Bulgarian construction company Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57] said it has raised the capital of its road maintenance unit Infrastroy by 3.0 million levs ($2.0 million/1.5 million euro).

CHISINAU (Moldova), January 14 (SeeNews) – Moldova's trade deficit widened by 2.9% on the year to $2.73 billion (2.04 billion euro) in January-November, the country's statistics bureau said on Monday.

Vodeći ekonomista Svetske banke Džastin Jifu Lin kaže da kineska ekonomija ima potencijal za brz rast u narednih 20 godina.

Predsednik Evropskog parlamenta Martin Schulz kritikovao je Međunarodni monetarni fond zbog zahteva da se Portugalu uvedu dodatne mere štednje.