At around 10:41 am (GMT0741), the Bucharest stock exchange’s composite index BET-C was down 0.3% from Monday’s closing value, while the main index BET was down 0.25%.
BET-FI, the index tracking the SIFs and investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), was losing 1.3%.
Wider blue-chip index BET-XT was falling 0.7%, while BET-NG, which tracks the energy stocks, was down 0.24%.
However, the market was mostly quiet, with the bourse’s overall traded value nearing 3 million lei (EUR0.7 million), of which just RON2 million in share trades, while the rest came from transactions with structured products and futures contracts.
As usual, Proprietatea and the financial stocks wre the most traded in the first part of the session, while Amonil (AMO.RO) continued its upward trend from Monday, as its shares were up 8.5% after the first 30 minutes of the session. (EUR1=RON4.2246)