At around 10:50 a.m., the Bucharest bourse’s composite index BET-C was down 0.19% from Tuesday close and the main index BET was losing 0.15%, dragged down by OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which fell 0.07%, and BRD (BRD.RO), which was losing 1%. The 0.44% increase of Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the 0.56% gain of Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) were unable to push the main index in green territory.
Benchmark index BET-BK fell a mere 0.01%, while the BET-FI index, which tracks the five regional investment funds SIFs and Proprietatea, rose 0.1%, helped by the three issuers present at trading: Proprietatea, SIF Crisana-Banat (SIF1.RO) (+0.48%) and SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) (+0.52%).
Energy tracker BET-NG and wider BET-XT were both losing 0.09%.
Overall trading in Bucharest stood at RON1.9 million (EUR0.44 million) at 10:50. (EUR1=RON4.4358)