The bourse’s BET index closed up 1.01%, while composite index BET-C rose 0.99%.

The Bucharest bourse’s total turnover amounted to 24.36 million lei (EUR5.56 million), higher from Tuesday’s RON13.5 million. Share transactions contributed some RON15.16 million.

Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) was the top-traded issuer on the regular market, with share transactions worth RON3.17 million. It was followed by OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) and Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) with RON1.95 million and RON1.64 million, respectively.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), decreased 0.12%, dragged down by all issuers except for SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO), which closed up 0.55%. Proprietatea inched down 0.17%, at RON0.58 a share.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK closed up 0.72%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT added a mere 0.73%.

Energy stocks tracker BET-NG closed 1.62% higher, with OMV Petrom adding 3.02%. (EUR1=RON4.3779)