The Bucharest bourse’s BET index ended down 1.05% from Wednesday closing level, and general index BET-C fell 1%.
Both BRD Groupe Societe-Generale (BRD.RO) and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) dropped 1.8%, while Transelectrica (TEL.RO) closed 1.5% lower.
BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), closed down 0.11%. Fondul Proprietatea dropped 0.32%, to 0.6245 lei (EUR0.14) per unit. SIF transilvania (SIF3.RO) was down 0.7%, but SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO) increased 0.6%.
Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK closed down 0.5%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT ended 0.74% lower.
Hurt by Petrom and Transelectrica’s declines, energy stocks tracker BET-NG fell 1.47%.
The local bourse’s overall traded value reached 24.71 million lei (EUR5.58 million), with deal transactions covering more than half of the value. On the regular market, investment funds and banks were by far the most traded issuers, with Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) and Proprietatea both recording RON1.8 million in share trades. (EUR1=RON4.4219)