The Bucharest Stock Exchange’s composite index BET-C inched up 0.09%, to 3,400.04, while the main index BET rose 0.21% to 5,616.61.
These two trackers were mainly influenced by the 1.76% rise of their heaviest issuer, OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which rides a wave of popularity following fresh news of the secondary public offering SPO by which the government will put a 9.84% stake on the bourse.
Petrom was thus today’s second-top traded issuer, after the Proprietatea fund, and its shares closed at 0.405 lei (EUR0.096), on a traded value of RON4.08 million.
Proprietatea shares rose 1.62% to RON0.5335, on a traded value of RON25 million.
The increase of Proprietatea stock fueled the growth of BET-FI, the index that tracks the fund and the five regional investment funds, or SIFs. BET-FI rose 0.95% on the day, to 23,323.25.
The shares of SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO), the second-heaviest BET-FI issuer, closed up 0.9%, to RON1.437, on a traded value of RON1.45.
Wider blue-chip tracker BET-XT rose 0.34% on the day, to 523, while the index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, rose 0.38% to 808.86.
Trades unfolded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange Thursday amounted to RON42.53 million, less than RON48.46 million in the previous session.
Other popular stock included Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO), which inched up 0.08% to RON1.236, Oltchim (OLT.RO), which dropped 1.14% to RON2.175, and market operator BVB(BVB.RO), which fell 2.5% to RON39. (EUR1=RON4.2087)