OREANDA-NEWS. July 10, 2014. Against the same period of the past year, it grew USD 194.41 million or 5.6%, increasing USD9.3 million or 03% quarter-on-quarter, it was said at the National Bank of Moldova.

Equity investment and the reinvested profit grew 5.2% from USD 2 billion 600.14 million as of the end of March 2013 to USD 2 billion 736.2 million as of the end of March 2014, intra-group credits (other capital) increasing 6.6% from USD 883.03 million to USD 941.37 million. Close to 52.8% of the total volume of foreign direct investments attracted to the economy of Moldova originated from the EU. 11.4% came from CIS and 35.8% were made by other countries, NBM says.

The share of the EU investment has increased 0.6 p.p. since the beginning of 2014 thanks to new investment from Italy, Germany and Romania. The share of CIS investment shrank 0.1 p.p., the investment from other states decreasing 0.5 p.p. In the banking sector of Moldova, the biggest volume of FDI in equity capital was made by Italy, Romani, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, the USA, Great Britain and Greece. Major equity investors to other sectors were Russia, the Netherlands, the USA, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Romania, Switzerland and France.

The investment made up 36.4% of total FDI in the financial sector; 23.8% in the processing industry; 14.5% in the wholesale and retail sector, and in the machinery and household appliances maintenance and repair; 11.2% in the transportation and communications; 10% in the real estate transactions and 7.6% in the energy generating and water supply facilities.