At around 11:00 a.m., the bourse’s composite index BET-C was up 0.25% and main index BET was adding 0.21%.
The BET-BK was 0.43% higher and the wider BET-XT index was gaining 0.26%.
The BET-FI index, which tracks the five regional investment funds SIFs and Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), was up 0.23%, helped by SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO) (+0.43%), SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) (+0.56%), SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO) (+0.7%) and SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) (+0.21%). Proprietatea and SIF Crisana-Banat (SIF1.RO) were flat from Thursday close.
Energy tracker BET-NG inched 0.09% lower.
Overall trading in Bucharest stood at 2.8 million lei (EUR0.64 million) at 11:00, with RON1.8 million coming from share transfers and RON1 million from transactions with structural products. Erste Bank (EBS.RO), which was up 2.69%, was top-traded issuer on the main market with share trades worth RON1.08 million and was followed by Proprietatea with share transactions of RON0.65 million. (EUR1=RON4.3895)