Both the BET and the BET-TR indexes closed up 0.19%, while BET-Plus grew 0.25%.
Energy companies saw their shares rise after positive results in the third quarter, but the BET advance was limited by the fall of banking stocks.
Transgaz (TGN.RO) rose 1.7%, while Transelectrica (TEL.RO) gained 1.3%, followed by OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) with a 0.9% increase. On the other hand, BRD (BRD.RO) went down 0.5% and Banca Transilvania declined 0.3%.
Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) inched 0.1% higher, but it couldn’t stop the fall of BET-FI. The investment fund tracker dropped 0.53%, as all the five regional investment funds (SIFs) were in negative territory, spearheaded by SIF Transilvania’s (SIF3.RO) 1.7% decrease.
The Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK was up 0.13%, while energy stocks tracker BET-NG increased 0.48%.
The session was rather quiet as investors are unsure of the economic policies after the unexpected win of Klaus Iohannis, the center-right mayor of Sibiu, against the current Prime Minister of Romania, Victor Ponta, in the presidential elections.
The traded values barely reached 11.7 million lei (EUR2.6 million), with Fomdul Proprietatea and Romgaz (SNG.RO) as the most traded stocks.