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    Jan 4 (Reuters) - Following are results of a Reuters poll of 13  banks on the Romanian  economy. See notes for definitions of abbreviations.    ===============================================================          INFLATION (CPI)           LEU CURRENCY     GDP         TRADE         BUDGET                    Dec’07     Jan   end-Q1 H1   ‘08   Jan  2008    Q4  ‘07 ‘08    ‘07    ‘08   ‘07 ‘08                   m/m y/y  m/m y/y   y/y  y/y  y/y               y/y y/y  y/y  MEDIAN  0.7 6.6  0.6 7.1   7.7  7.5  4.8   3.60 3.40   5.9 5.9 6.1   -18.00 -21.05 -2.1 -2.6  AVERAGE 0.7 6.5  0.6 7.0   7.5  7.2  4.9   3.57 3.43   5.8 5.8 6.1   -18.88 -11.82 -2.0 -2.8  MINIMUM 0.2 6.0  0.3 6.2   5.6  5.4  3.9   3.44 3.05   5.1 5.5 5.5   -22.00 -32.00 -3.3 -3.5  MAXIMUM 1.2 6.9  0.9 7.7   8.4  8.0  5.9   3.65 3.78   6.2 6.1 6.6   -17.30 -25.50 -1.4 -2.3  MODE    0.7 6.7  0.9 7.1   7.7  7.4  4.8   3.48 3.35   5.8 5.8 6.5   -17.50 -27.00 -1.8 -2.9        Bank  (1)     0.9 6.8  0.9 7.7   8.4  7.5  5.9   3.65 3.50   5.8 5.8 6.5   -22.00 -27.00  n/a  n/a  (2)     0.4 6.2  0.3 6.3   6.6  6.0  5.2   3.48 3.35   6.2 5.9 5.8   -17.50 -27.00 -2.1 -2.9  (3)     0.8 6.8  0.6 7.2   7.9  7.9  4.8   3.50 3.30   6.0 5.8 5.5   -19.60 -23.20 -1.8 -2.3  (4)     0.8 6.7  0.4 6.9   7.3  7.4  4.8   3.48 3.40   5.7 5.7 6.1   -17.30 -21.00 -2.4 -2.7  (5)     0.6 6.5  0.7 7.0   8.0  7.7  4.7   3.61 3.25   5.2 5.6 6.1   -17.50 -21.00 -1.8 -2.7  (6)     1.2 6.0  0.9 n/a   n/a  n/a  4.5   3.64 3.78   6.0 6.1 6.5   -17.70 -21.10 -3.3 -3.2  (7)     0.8 6.7  0.6 7.1   8.0  7.4  4.9   3.64 3.52   6.2 5.9 6.6   -18.30 -22.10 -1.8 -3.2  (8)     0.9 6.9  0.8 7.5   8.1  8.0  5.1   3.62 3.70   n/a n/a n/a     n/a    n/a   n/a  n/a  (9)     0.7 6.6  0.4 6.9   7.7  7.6  4.8   3.60 3.35   6.1 5.9 6.5   -18.50 -21.70 -1.4 -2.5  (10)    0.2 6.1  0.3 6.2   5.6  5.4  3.9   3.44 3.05   6.2 6.0 5.8   -17.70 -21.40 -2.7 -2.9  (11)    0.7 6.6  0.6 7.1   7.7  7.5  4.6   3.55 3.40   5.8 5.8 6.0   -21.50 -25.50 -1.6 -2.8  (12)    0.7 6.7  0.7 7.1   7.7  7.4  5.5   3.62 3.45   5.1 5.5 5.5   -17.40 -19.00 -2.2 -3.5  (13)    0.7 6.5  0.5 6.8   6.7  6.0  4.7   3.60 3.60   5.8 6.0 6.5   -21.50 -32.00 -2.5 -2.6                  (1) Alpha Bank     (2) Banca Romaneasca, Daniel Buzatu     (3) Banca Transilvania, Ioan Birle     (4) BCR, Melania Hancila     (5) Credit Europe Bank, Georgiana Constantinescu     (6) Eximbank     (7) ING Bank, Nicolaie Alexandru-Chidesciuc     (8) Libra Bank, Meral Omer     (9) Millennium Bank, Ciprian Dascalu    (10) MKB Romexterra Bank, Catalin Maciuca    (11) Piraeus Bank, Otilia Ciotau    (12) Raiffeisen Bank, Ionut Dumitru    (13) Volksbank, Madalina Tocu            Notes:    CPI    - Consumer price index (pct change).    LEU    - Euro/leu exchange rate at end of each month.    GDP    - Real gross domestic product growth (pct change).    TRADE  - Foreign trade balance (FOB/FOB, billions of euros).    BUDGET - Public finance balance in percent of GDP.

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