At about 10:50 local time, the bourse’s BET index was 0.56% lower from Thursday’s closing level, and general index BET-C was losing 0.54%.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and five regional investment funds (SIFs), was adding a mere 0.13%, helped by SIF Crisana-Banat (SIF1.RO), with a 0.16% increase, and SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO), which added 1.16%. SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) and SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) were falling 0.14% each. Proprietatea was flat on the day.

The bourse’s overall traded value amounted to only 1.1 million lei (EUR0.24 million), with RON0.4 million coming from share trades and RON0.6 million from transactions with structural products.

Proprietatea was the top traded issuer on the main market with transactions worth RON0.27 million.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK was falling 0.24%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.35% lower.

Energy stocks tracker BET-NG was losing 0.68%, dragged down by three issuers, the only ones present at trading: Transgaz (TGN.RO) (-0.55%), OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) (-1.03%) and Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO) (-1.48%). (EUR1=RON4.4281)