Proprietatea said Thursday morning its 14.98% stake in Transgaz was sold at a price of 172 lei (EUR38.6) per share via a private offering. The fund got 303.51 million lei (EUR68.2 million).
At 11:00 local time (GMT0900), Proprietatea was trading down 0.54%, at RON0.8305 per share.
The bourse’s BET-C index closed up 0.22% and the BET index increased 0.14%.
The BET-FI index, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds SIFs, gained 0.21%, supported by SIF Oltenia (SIF1.RO), which gained 0.49%, SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO), which added 0.39%, and SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO), with a 1.1% increase
The BET-BK inched up 0.11% and the wider BET-XT index added 0.14%.
Energy tracker BET-NG climbed 1.29%, helped by its weightiest issuers: Transgaz, Transelectrica (TEL.RO), which was up 1.3%, and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which gained a mere 0.02%.
The bourse’s liquidity amounted to RON5.9 million (EUR1.3 million) at 11:00, with RON3.7 million coming from transfers with Proprietatea shares, and about RON1 million from trades with the shares of Transgaz. (EUR1=RON4.453)