Also, non-residents’ direct investment in Romania totalled EUR 1,497 million (down 9.9 percent as compared with January – September 2012), of which equity stakes consolidated with the estimated net loss amounted to EUR 1,005 million and intragroup loans to EUR 492 million.

Medium-and long-term external debt at end-September 2013 stood at EUR 79,143 million (80.3 percent of total external debt), 0.5 percent above the level recorded at end-2012. Short-term external debt at end-September 2013 totalled EUR 19,380 million (19.7 percent of total external debt), down 7.4 percent from end-2012.

Medium- and long-term external debt service ratio ran at 40.7 percent in the first nine months of 2013, against 34.9 percent in 2012. At end-September 2013, goods and services import cover stood at 7.4 months, as compared with 7.1 months at end-2012. (source: nineoclock.ro)