The stock exchange’s composite index BET-C and main index BET rose 1.38% and 1.42% on the day respectively. The results of both indexes were mainly pushed up by the 4% increase seen by oil company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO).
BET-FI, the index tracking the main investment funds, rose 1.27% on the day, to 24,039.34. The five regional investment funds, or SIFs, gained 1.8% on average, but Fondul Proprietatea was up just 0.1%.
Wider blue-chip tracker BET-XT rose 1.44% to 477.92, while the index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, gained 2.07% to 697.43.
Trades unfolded on the stock exchange Wednesday amounted to 63.72 million lei (EUR14.63 million). Tuesday’s turnover stood at just RON26.35 million.
Trades in the Proprietatea fund amounted to a total RON30.57 million. The fund’s shares closed up a mere 0.1% on the day, to RON0.52.
The second-top traded issuer was SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO), whose shares rose 1.3% to RON1.325, following trades worth a total RON6.48 million.
Petrom shares closed at RON0.36, Erste Group Bank (EBS.RO) shares jumped 7.65% to RON85.8, and BRD-Groupe Societe Generale (BRD.RO) saw its stocks rise 1.4% to RON11.49. (EUR1=RON4.354)