Just before closing time, buy orders for shares of Transgaz (TGN.RO), BRD-Groupe Societe Generale (BRD.RO), Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) lifted the bourse’s main indexes, as the four issuers have the largest weights in the indexes’ structures.
Thus, Bucharest Stock Exchange’s blue-chip index BET closed up 0.78% on the day, at 5,460.94, while composite index BET-C rose 0.33% to 3,288.38.
However, BET-FI, the index tracking the five regional investment funds SIFs and investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), dropped 0.96%, to 22,086.43, as the Proprietatea fund fell 0.57%, to RON0.52, and the SIFs fell 1.21% on average.
Wider blue-chip tracker BET-XT rose 0.26% to 503.51, while the index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, rose 1.04% to 771.87.
Trades unfolded Friday on the Bucharest Stock Exchange amounted to 39.3 million lei (EUR9.2 million), with RON24.67 million coming from trades in the Proprietatea fund.
Shares of oil company OMV Petrom rose 0.55% on the day, to RON0.387, on a traded value of RON482,586. Banca Transilvania closed up 1.78% to RON1.2, on a traded value of RON5 million.
BRD shares gained 1.23% to RON14, while Transgaz rose 2.1% to RON237.9 a share. (EUR1=RON4.2717)