August 28 (SeeNews) - Long-term investments in fixed assets in Moldova rose 4.5% on the year in comparable prices to 6.13 billion lei ($451 million/342 million euro) in the first half of 2014, the country's statistics bureau said on Thursday.
Investments in construction works rose 4.6% on the year to 2.74 billion lei in the first six months of the year, the statistics bureau said in a statement.
Investments in new equipment increased 4.5% to 2.85 billion lei over the review period.
The bureau added that 65.4% of investments in fixed assets in the first half of the year were financed by local companies' own funds. Foreign investments in fixed assets in the country accounted for 4.1% of the total.
(1 euro = 18.4117 Moldovan lei)