The Bucharest Stock Exchange’s composite index BET-C rose 1.24% on the day, to 3,430.08, while 10-share blue-chip index BET inched up 0.17%, to 5,571.93.
Oltchim (OLT.RO) closed the day with another 15% jump, accompanied by Oil Terminal (OIL.RO), Rompetrol Well Services (PTR.RO), Petrolexportimport (PEI.RO) and Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO), which also soared 15%, the maximum variation allowed by bourse regulations.
The BET-FI index, which tracks the SIFs, and investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), closed down 0.58% on the day, as the 0.3% rise of Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) could not offset the 1.4% average declione of the SIFs.
Wider blue-chip index BET-XT rose 0.3% to 520.04, while BET-NG, the index tracking energy companies, closed at 857.69, up 2.89% on the day.
Trades unfolded Wednesday on the Bucharest Stock Exchange amounted to 41 million lei (EUR9.8 million), with RON6.14 million coming from four deal market trades in Proprietatea stock. In the previous session, the overall traded value stood at RON52.47 million.
The Proprietatea fund was today’s top-traded issuer on the regular market as well. Its stock closed at RON0.502, on a traded value of RON16.18 million.
OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), the second-top traded stock, fell 1.25% on the day, to RON0.395.
Other popular stock Wednesday included Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO), which rose 0.66% to RON1.218, SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO), which fell 0.77% to RON1.41, and Transgaz (TGN.RO), which rose 1.96% to RON265.3. (EUR1=RON4.1719)