Last year was a record year for bonds on the Baltic stock exchanges, with companies raising nearly EUR 2 billion in total on the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian exchanges. “The Estonian economy is still sluggish, investor confidence is on a downward trend, and trading activity on the Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange was nothing special last…
The owner of an undersea telecommunications cable connecting Lithuania and Latvia damaged on January 2 says it expects to complete repairs within the next couple of weeks. A spokesman for Arelion, a telecommunications company owned by Swedish infrastructure investment firm Polhem Infra, said that repair work had already been planned but would depend on weather…
The long-awaited Tartu-Riga train made its inaugural run on January 5, before the route would officially launch later this month, and was met with celebrations along the route. Elron’s orange train departed from a festively decked-out Tartu Railway Station at 10:05 a.m. Platform one was decorated with orange and white balloons in the color of…
American investment company Stonpeak has entered into an agreement with Baltic telecom operator Bite Group to acquire TeleTower’s operations in Lithuania and Latvia. This was announced in a Stonpeak press release. The deal aims to create an independent tower management company as part of a strategic partnership to increase investment in the Baltic mobile network…
To ensure grid stability, Baltic system operators will cap the Estonia-Latvia transmission capacity below 1,000 megawatts next year, limiting power producers. The electricity system operators of the three Baltic States have conducted new stability calculations, resulting in a decision to adjust transmission capacities. For the Estonia-Latvia connection, this means that starting from January 1, 2026…
Estonian media group Ekspress Grupp said on December 23 it had agreed to sell Lithuanian news portal lrytas.lt to a company owned by television producer Rolandas Skaisgirys, following an order by Lithuania’s Competition Council to divest the outlet. The buyer is Admisa, a company owned by Skaisgirys, who is also chairman of the board of…
Estonia has been gradually withdrawing one- and two-cent euro coins from circulation, sending them to Latvia, which still uses them. Due to rounding-off rules introduced at the start of 2025, the smallest euro coin denominations are, while not completely obsolete, not practical in Estonia, nor in Finland, which has also been phasing the coins out.…