In the first half of 2015, the Budapest Stock Exchange’s BUX index rose by some 32 percent, and thus it recorded the third highest increase among the world’s bourses, following Venezuela and Argentina.1 Among the blue chips of the Budapest Stock Exchange, the stock prices of Hungary’s largest bank OTP, oil company MOL, pharmaceuticals company Richter Gedeon and market-leader telekom service provider Magyar Telekom gained some 50 percent, 25 percent, 20 percent and some 21 percent, respectively, in the aforementioned period.

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(Ministry for National Economy)