Top-traded stocks included BRD – Groupe Societe Generale (BRD.RO), Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), and Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO).

The Bucharest bourse’s main index BET was up 54.68 points, or 0.77%, at 7.158,24, while BET Plus closed up 0.64%, or 6.67 points, to 1.054,06. Total return index BET-TR was up 0.77%, at 7.817,07.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds SIFs, closed flat at 30.655,02.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK finished the session at 1.351,48, up 0.51% on the day, while energy stocks tracker BET-NG fell 0.12% to 687.06.

The wider BET-XT closed at 649.14, up 0.66% on the day. (EUR1=RON4.442)