According to a BVB announcement, the market operator’s board proposed a share capital reduction, with the distribution of additional amounts to stockholders.

The Bucharest bourse’s BET index ended up 0.26% from Tuesday closing level, and general index BET-C increased 0.27%.

BET-FI, which tracks Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), closed down 0.76%. Fondul Proprietatea dropped 0.56%, while SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO) saw the highest decrease among the SIFs, ending down 1.18%.

The local bourse’s overall traded value reached 27.41 million lei (EUR6.2 million), transactions with Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) stock totaling amost half, or RON12.37 million.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK inched down 0.15%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT closed down a mere 0.03%. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG rose 0.23%. (EUR1=RON4.4179)