* Ioan Niculae, "InterAgro": "The valuation of Romgaz on the stock market has no connection to the reality of the company"
* Gabriel Dumitraşcu: "In the future, we will place a cap on subscriptions on the retail tier"
* Daniel Dăianu, ASF: "It is important for the BSE to achieve visibility, especially since bank lending is in trouble"
"We can celebrate, we can congratulate each other, but let's not get overexcited" - that could have been the slogan for the event of the decade - the IPO of Romgaz - on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
News channels did not publish any "breaking news", live from the BSE. On the other hand, they covered the trip of the Prime-Minister to London, where he attended the launch of the Romgaz GDRs, on the London Stock Exchange. Some channels were even having special editions about "the listing of Romgaz in London", without one word about the fact that the company was trading in Bucharest as well.
Having left for London, the prime-minister and the delegated minister for energy Constantin Niţă have sent in their subordinates to represent them at the event of the BSE, more for appearances' sake. Dante Stein, the advisor to the Prime-Minister, and secretary of state Mihai Albulescu have handled the issuing and receiving of congratulations. The only one who actually had anything to do with what was happening on the BSE was Gabriel Dumitraşcu, the head of privatizations of the Energy Department.
The departure of our government officials for London and the opening of the transactions over there have ruined the event in Bucharest, and as a result the Bucharest Stock Exchange missed another opportunity to escape obscurity.
The CEO of the BSE Ludwik Sobolewski ended the event dedicated to the IPO apotheotically - with commemorative booklets for the participants in the IPO and without a Q&A session for journali
