The Bucharest stock exchange’s BET index closed up 0.87% on the day, at 5,310.7, mostly helped by the increases of Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO).
Proprietatea shares closed up 1.1% at 0.59 lei (EUR0.13), while Banca Transilvania stocks rose 3% to RON1.13.
The general index BET-C gained 0.5% on the day, to 3,066.49, while the BET Extended index, BET-XT, rose 0.84% to 499.79.
BET-FI, the index tracking Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds, or SIFs, rose 0.92% on the day, to 25,588.68, as the SIFs gained 0.86% on average.
SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO) rose 2.5%, while SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) closed up 0.5%.
Trades unfolded on the stock exchange Thursday amounted to RON39 million, with RON13.45 million coming from Fondul Proprietatea trades. Another RON9.2 million came from two deal market trades in lender BRD-Groupe Societe Generale (BRD.RO).
BRD shares fell 0.19% on the day, to RON10.6.
Other popular issuers included OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which dipped 0.1% to RON0.4 and Erste Group Bank (EBS.RO), which gained 2.53% to RON81. (EUR1=RON4.3553)