The Bucharest bourse’s total turnover amounted to 15.8 million lei (EUR3.6 million), with share transactions contributing some RON12.9 million.

On the regular market, BRD was top-traded issuer, with share transactions worth RON3.3 million, followed by Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), with RON2.4 million, and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), with RON1.6 million.

The bourse’s BET index closed down 0.43% from Thursday’s closing level, and composite index BET-C fell 0.51%.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), inched down 0.21%. Proprietatea traded down 0.93%, at RON0.5875 a share.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK closed down 0.21%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT lost 0.3%.

Energy stocks tracker BET-NG fell about 1%, dragged down by its weightiest issuers: Petrom (-0.45%), Transgaz (TGN.RO) (-0.42%), Transelectrica (TEL.RO) (-1.93%) and Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO) (-2.04%). (EUR1=RON4.397)