The Bucharest bourse’s composite index BET-C closed up 0.56%, at 3,274.7, while the main index BET rose 1.1% to 5,415.43.
BET-FI, the index tracking Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the regional investment funds, or SIFs, was up 2% on the day, at 22,277.81.
The extended blue-chip index BET-XT, which also includes the SIFs, rose 1.23% to 501.06.
BET-NG, which tracks the energy stocks, was the only one that ended in negative territory, dragged down by a fall in OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) stock, affected by the failure of the government’s share offering.
Romanian authorities planned to sell a 9.84% stake in Petrom, but the share offering failed to raise enough interest from investors. Petrom shares traded down 1.9% at 0.3762 lei (EUR0.089) before being suspended shortly after the Economy Ministry announced the offer was unsuccessful.
BET-NG closed down 0.59%, at 760.32.
The bourse’s traded value amounted to RON43.88 million (EUR10.4 million), supported once again by Proprietatea stock trades, which stood at RON25.7 million.
Proprietatea closed at RON0.527 a share, up 2.1% on the day.
Petrom and Transgaz (TGN.RO) were the only non-financial issuers that entered the top-10 most traded stocks, as the SIFs and the banks attracted most of investors’ interest.
Erste Bank Group (EBS.RO) was the second-top traded issuer Friday. It closed up 0.96%, at RON147.9 per share, on a traded value of RON3 million.
It was followed by market operator BVB (BVB.RO), which ended flat at RON37 a share, and by lender Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO), whose stock rose 4.9% to RON1.2. (EUR1=RON4.2233)