BANJA LUKA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), January 15 (SeeNews) – Bosnian retailer Nova Trgovina [BANJ:NTG9-R-A] said its management is positive about the squeeze-out bid for the company placed by sporting arms distributor Jacimovic.

PODGORICA (Montenegro), January 15 (SeeNews) – The credit portfolio of Montenegro’s commercial banks fell by an annual 3.7% to 1.87 billion euro ($2.5 billion) at the end of November 2012, the country’s central bank CBCG said.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 15 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria's central bank said it will auction 40 million levs ($27.3 million/20.45 million euro) in five-year Treasury notes on January 21.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 15 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria’s regional development ministry said on Tuesday it invites eligible tenderers to express interest in a project for construction works on the Plovdivtsi Dam and a water treatment plant.

BUCHAREST (Romania), January 15 (SeeNews) – Austria's Erste Group said on Tuesday it is writing down goodwill mainly associated with its Romanian unit Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) in the amount of 300 million euro ($401 million).

BUCHAREST (Romania), January 15 (SeeNews) – Romania's property restitution fund Fondul Proprietatea [BSE:FP] said on Tuesday its profit reached some 567 million lei ($173 million/129 million euro) in 2012.

ZAGREB (Croatia), January 15 (SeeNews) – Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Croatia totalled a preliminary 452.7 million euro ($606 million) through September 2012, data from the country’s central bank showed on Tuesday.

ZAGREB (Croatia), January 15 (SeeNews) – Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Croatia totalled a preliminary 452.7 million euro ($606 million) through September 2012, data from the country’s central bank showed on Tuesday.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 15 (SeeNews) – Russian company Metrovagonmash has won a 80.1 million lev ($54.8 million/40.95 million euro) deal for the supply of railway and tramway locomotives in Bulgaria, a notice in the European Union’s procurement …