The BET-C composite index moved down 15.47 points, or 0.5%, at 3,049.92, while the main index BET fell 39.96 points, or 0.69%, to 5,749.83.
The BET-FI index, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), dropped 230.77 points, or 0.89%, at 25,676.9.
Fondul Proprietatea closed at 0.68 lei (EUR0.15) per share, down 1.16% from Thursday closing price and lower than the all-time high of RON0.691 reached yesterday during the session. The SIFs also closed down, with the sole exception of SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO), which inched 0.16% higher.
Deals with Fondul Proprietatea amounted to RON7.1 million, while Erste Group Bank (EBS.RO) reached a traded value of RON11.1 million. The two issuers covered about half of the market’s trading value of RON28.9 million.
Erste closed up 0.7%, while Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) rose 0.4%. However, most of the blue-chips were in negative territory, with OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) and Transgaz (TGN.RO) both losing 1.3%, while BRD (BRD.RO) inched 0.1% lower.
Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK closed down 0.6%, while energy stocks tracker BET-NG was down 0.56%. (EUR1=RON4.4373)