The bourse’s main index BET closed up 1.39% on the day, to 4,549.45, while the composite index BET-C gained 1.19% to 2,757.07.

BET-FI, the index tracking the main investment funds, rose 1.24% to 16,421.81.

Wider blue-chip index BET-XT rose 1.53% to 399.85, while the index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, rose 2.02% on the day, to 649.78.

Trades unfolded Friday on the stock exchange amounted to 14.93 million lei (EUR3.44 million) with a third of the value in transactions with bonds and structured products and just RON9.8 million in share deals.

Investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) was the top-traded issuer. Its stocks dipped 0.52% on the day, to RON0.4401, on a traded value of RON3.74 million.

Erste Group Bank (EBS.RO) was the second-top traded issuer. Its shares gained 1.56% to RON68.5, on a traded value of RON923,802.

Other popular stocks included SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO), which rose 2.65%, and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which closed up 0.98% on the day. (EUR1=RON4.3295)