At around 11:00 a.m., the bourse’s composite index BET-C was adding 0.34% from Friday close, and the main index BET was gaining 0.4%, with Fondul Proprietatea trading up 0.29% and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) climbing 2.28% after the oil company published its financial results for the second quarter of the year. Petrom said its net profit rose 65% on the year to 1.06 billion lei (EUR248.9 million) in April-June.
Overall trading in Bucharest was 1.76 million lei (EUR0.39 million) at 11:00 a.m.. SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) was top-traded issuer with RON0.7 million and was followed by Proprietatea with RON0.2 million.
Benchmark index BET-BK gained 0.46% and the wider BET-XT was 0.54% higher.
BET-FI index, which tracks the five regional investment funds SIFs and Fondul Proprietatea, increased 0.9% helped by all issuers.
Energy tracker BET-NG was up 0.7%. (EUR1=RON4.425)