The bourse’s BET index closed down 0.32% and composite index BET-C lost 0.41%.

The Bucharest bourse’s total turnover amounted to 28.5 million lei (EUR6.5 million). Share trades contributed some RON24.6 million and RON3.5 million came from transactions with structural products.

Fondul Proprietatea was the top-traded issuer on the regular market, with share trades worth RON5.1 million. Next came oil company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) with RON3.4 million.

BET-FI, which tracks Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), fell a mere 0.19%, dragged down by Proprietatea, which lost 0.85%, SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO), with a 1.1% decrease, and SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO), which dropped 0.9%.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK closed 0.51% lower, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT fell 0.23%.

Energy stocks tracker BET-NG lost 0.48%, dragged down by some of its weightiest issuers, including Petrom (-0.94%) and Transelectrica (TEL.RO), which dropped 0.29%. (EUR1=RON4.3816)