Top-traded stocks included BRD – Groupe Societe Generale (BRD.RO), Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO).

The Bucharest bourse’s main index BET was up 26.41 points, or 0.38%, at 7.038,10, while BET Plus closed up 0.41%, or 4.23 points, to 1.038,58. Total return index BET-TR was up 0.38%, at 7.685,86.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds SIFs, gained 1.6% on the day, at 30.085,18.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK finished the session at 1.326,18, up 1.2% on the day, while energy stocks tracker BET-NG rose 0.37% to 689.76.

The wider BET-XT closed at 637.49, up 0.56% on the day. (EUR1=RON4.5005)