Monday, the local exchange was closed for a religious holiday.
The BET-C composite index was down 37.3 points on the day, or 1.3%, to finish Tuesday’s session at 2821.9, while the main index BET declined 67.74 points at 5246.22.
The BET-FI index, which tracks investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), fell 301.42 points, or 1.22% at 24383.1. Fondul Proprietatea shares shed 0.56% on the day and closed at 0.622 lei (EUR0.1386) a share.
The BET-BK closed down 15.66 points at 1029.02, while the BET-NG fell 6.58 points, or 1.05%, to 622.28.
The wider BET-XT declined 6.49 points, or 1.33% to close at 481.13.
Overall trading was RON17.9 million (EUR3.9 million).
Around half of the liquidity was covered by deals with Fondul Proprietatea, lender Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO), SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), the country’s largest oil and gas company. Petrom’s shares lost 1.07% on the day at RON0.4175.
Austria’s Erste Group Bank AG (EBS.RO) continued to fall and closed 6.59% lower on the day at RON93.5. Monday, the bank called on its shareholders to contribute to a EUR600 million capital increase to repay a government loan taken during the recession.