At around 10:38 local time, the Bucharest Stock Exchange’s composite index BET-C was falling 0.22%, while 10-share blue-chip index BET was down 0.35%.

BET-FI, the index tracking the five regional investment funds, or SIFs, and the Proprietatea fund, was down 0.18%.

Wider blue-chip tracker BET-XT was declining 0.25%, while the index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, was dropping 0.23%.

Trades unfolded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange by 10:43 amounted to 2.45 million lei (EUR572,000).

Popular stock early Wednesday included Fondul Proprietatea, Petrom, SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO), SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) and SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO). (EUR1=RON4.2838)