Proprietatea climbed 3.45% after it announced Wednesday morning it wants to sell 1.77% of its stake in oil company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO). Petrom closed down 3.2%, at 0.43 lei (EUR0.099) a share.
Bucharest’s BET index closed up 1.33% from Tuesday’s closing level, and composite index BET-C gained 0.94%.
The BET-FI index, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), increased 2.15%.
Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK gained 1.61% and BET-XT, which tracks the most traded 25 Romanian stocks, went up 1.32%.
Energy stocks tracker BET-NG ended down 0.08%, dragged down by Petrom and Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO), which lost 3.38%.
The bourse’s overall traded value amounted to 58.2 million lei (EUR13.4 million), with share trades contributing some RON49.5 million.
Proprietatea was to-traded issuer on the main market, with transfers worth RON20.8 million. Erste Group Bank, which gained 1.42%, followed with share transaction of RON10.5 million. (EUR1=RON4.3344)