The local bourse’s BET index ended down 0.49% from Wednesday’s closing level, and general index BET-C fell 0.62%.
BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), ended 0.15% lower. Proprietatea traded up 0.31%, at 0.642 lei (EUR0.14) a share, and was top traded issuer on the main market with share transactions worth RON5 million.
The bourse’s overall traded value amounted to 21.5 million lei (EUR4.8 million). Some RON17.7 million came from share trades and RON2.9 million from transactions with structural products. BRD and Proprietatea contributed RON3.08 million and RON1.9 million, respectively, through several special deals.
Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK closed down 0.4%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT fell 0.34%.
Energy stocks tracker BET-NG lost some 2% dragged down mainly by Transgaz (TGN.RO), which plummeted 6.28%.
A secondary public offering through which the state wants to sell 15% in Transgaz has been launched Thursday, April 4. Romania seeks to raise between RON300 million (EUR68 million) and RON400 million (EUR90 million) for the full stake in the state-owned company. (EUR1=RON4.4281)