BET-FI closed at 23,864.39, down 0.12% on the day, held back mostly by the 0.96% decline seen by investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO). Proprietatea shares closed at 0.56 lei (EUR0.13), while the SIFs gained 0.2% on average.

SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) was the only regional investment fund to see a decline. Its shares dropped 0.15% on the day, to RON1.29.

The stock market’s main index BET and composite index BET-C gained 0.26% and 0.07% on the day respectively.

The BET Extended index, or BET-XT, rose 0.16%, while energy tracker BET-NG gained 0.96%.

Turnover stood at RON36.42 million Wednesday, but RON21.35 million came from deal market trades in the Proprietatea fund, SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO) and gas transporter Transgaz (TGN.RO).

SIF Banat-Crisana shares closed up 3.9% on the day, while Transgaz shares dipped 0.04%.

Other popular issuers included oil company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), whose shares closed flat, and power grid operator Transelectrica (TEL.RO), whose stocks dipped 0.07%. (EUR1=RON4.3746)