At 11:00 am (GMT0800), the Bucharest bourse’s composite index BET-C was up 0.5% from Wednesday’s closing value, while the main index BET was rising 0.6%.
BET-FI, the index tracking Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds, or SIFs, was up 0.8%.
After a 3.2% decline yesterday, energy stocks tracker BET-NG was gaining 1.1% after the first hour of the Thursday session, lifted by a 3.2% increase of Transgaz (TGN.RO) shares.
The extended blue-chip index BET-XT was up 0.6%.
Despite the improved sentiment, interest for trading remained low, with the bourse’s overall turnover at less than 3.5 million lei (EUR0.8 million) by 11:00.
As usual, Fondul Proprietatea and the SIFs were the most traded stocks after the first hour of the session, but the top-five registered some new entries from Carbochim (CBC.RO) and Electroarges (ELGS.RO), with both shares up 15%. (EUR1=RON4.2342)