BET index inched down 0.04% after five minutes of Monday session, while general index BET-C was down 0.03%.
The Bucharest stock exchange rallied in the first two sessions of 2013, continuing the upward trend seen in the last trades of last year. But the momentum seems to have disappeared Monday morning, as European markets opened undecided.
The bourse’s benchmark index BET-BK was up a mere 0.06%, but the extended blue-chip index, BET-XT, was down 0.12%.
BET-FI, which tracks the main investment funds, was down 0.25%, as SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) was losing 1.1%. Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) traded up 0.2%.
The traded values were lower than at the debut of previous sessions, reaching just 0.8 million lei (EUR0.18 million) at around 10:12 local time (GMT0812).