BET closed down 11.59 points, or 0.18%, to 6,377.61, while composite index BET-C lost 0.51% to 3,232.45 points.

Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) closed down almost 1%, after the fund manager proposed to keep the profit for investments and pay no dividends out of last year’s result.

OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) inched down 0.2%, while Transgaz (TGN.RO) fell 0.7%, but Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) gained 1%.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), declined 0.94% to 29,867.8 points, as SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO) and SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) went both down 1.6%.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK closed down 0.71%, while extended blue-chip index BET-XT fell 0.34%. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG decreased 0.55%.

The traded values were reduced, with share transfers reaching 15.2 million lei (EUR3.4 million). Petrom and Transgaz were the most traded issuers, followed by Fondul Proprietatea, and the three stocks covered two thirds of the total amount. (EUR1=RON4.4931)