At around 10:30 local time (GMT0730), the Bucharest bourse’s BET index was up a mere 0.09% from Thursday closing level, helped mainly by investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), which added 0.31%, and oil company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which was up 0.12%.
On the other hand, lender Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) was losing 0.17%.
Composite index BET-C increased 0.28% and Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK was 0.32% higher.
BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and five regional investment funds (SIFs), was up 0.76% and energy stocks tracker BET-NG gained 0.22%.
The bourse’s overall traded value was scarce, at about 0.96 million lei (EUR0.21 million) at 10:30, with Proprietatea contributing some half of the total. (EUR1=RON4.483)