The bourse’s blue chip index BET inched down 0.23%, and general index BET-C lost 0.46%.

BET-FI, which tracks the main investment funds, fell 0.6%. Proprietatea traded down 0.56% at RON0.5375 a share.

The bourse’s overall traded value stood at 24.5 million lei (EUR5.4 million). Share transactions contributed some RON23.3 million (EUR5.1 million), with RON6.26 coming from special deals with shares of regional investment fund SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO) and the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB.RO).

Fondul Proprietatea was top-traded issuer on the main market, with share trades worth RON4.1 million, and was followed by Petrom, with RON2.36 million, and SIF Transilvania, with RON2.29 million.

Benchmark index BET-BK lost 0.73% and BET-XT traded 0.41% lower.

Energy stocks tracker BET-NG was down a mere 0.01%, weighed down mainly by Petrom, which fell 1.03%. (EUR1=RON4.5316)