The local bourse’s overall traded value reached 24.8 million lei (EUR5.6 million). Share transactions contributed some RON22.9 million, with RON11.48 million coming from the special deals.

Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) was top-traded issuer on the main market with share transactions worth RON4.2 million. It was followed by SIF Transilvania, with RON2.2 million.

The Bucharest bourse’s BET index ended down 0.55% from Thursday’s closing level, and general index BET-C decreased 0.49%.

BET-FI, which tracks Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), fell 0.78%, dragged down by all issuers. Fondul Proprietatea dropped 0.24%.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK closed down 0.58%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT lost 0.7%.

Energy stocks tracker BET-NG dropped 0.59%. Its weightiest issuers, OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) and Transgaz (TGN.RO), fell 1.62% and 0.6%, respectively. (EUR1=RON4.4286)