At around 11:15 am, the Bucharest stock exchange’s composite index was down 0.5% from Friday’s closing level, while the main index BET was losing 0.6%.

BET-FI, the index tracking Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds SIFs, was down 0.6%. A similar decline was posted by the extended blue-chip index BET-XT.

BET-NG, the index tracking energy stocks, was losing only 0.2%.

The bourse’s overall traded value was at around 5 million lei (EUR1.2 million) at 11:16.

Fopndul Proprietatea was the most traded issuer in early trade Monday, followed by the SIFs and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO). (EUR1=RON4.2037)