At around 10:29 local time (GMT0829), the Bucharest bourse’s BET index was up 0.9% from Tuesday’s closing level, while the composite index BET-C was up 1.4%.
BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the SIFs, was up 1.9%, lifted mainly by SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO), whose shares were up 3%, while SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) and SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO) traded up 2.3% and 2.5%, respectively.
The extended blue-chip index BET-XT was up 1.2%, but the main performer was energy stocks tracker BET-NG, which was gaining 3.2%. Rompetrol Rafinare’s (RRC.RO) 9% surge was the main driver of BET-NG’s increase.
The bourse’s traded value was of some 5.2 million lei (EUR1.3 million) by 10:29 hours, with financial stocks dominating the charts. (EUR1=RON4.3433)