Petrom closed down 3.4%, although the company announced earlier Wednesday a record profit for the first quarter. Banca Transilvania’s shares fell almost 4%.
Transgaz was the only issuer included in the ten-stock index that did not ended in red. Transgaz shares inched up 0.02%.
The Bucharest bourse’s composite index BET-C was down 1.2% from Tuesday closing level.
BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), dropped 0.8%. Proprietatea lost just 0.2%, but SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) was down 1.8% and SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) droped 1.5%. The extended blue-chip index BET-XT was down 1.7%.
Despite Petrom’s fall, energy stocks tracker BET-NG managed to close in green, as Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO) rose 7.6%, the largest rise in Bucharest’s Wednesday session.
The bourse’s overall traded value was just below 40 million lei (EUR9 million), with half of it coming from trades with Fondul Proprietatea stock. (EUR1=RON4.416)