At around 11:00 am, the main index BET was up 0.61%, while energy tracker BET-NG advanced 0.36%.
The BET-FI index, which tracks the five regional investment funds SIFs and investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), rose 1.28%, while the wider BET-XT increased 0.98%.
Overall trading in Bucharest was RON19 million (EUR4.2 million), with RON5.3 million coming from deals with shares of Austrian Erste Group Bank AG (EBS.RO). The bank traded up 6.16% at RON77.5 a share.
Other top-traded issuers Friday morning included Fondul Proprietatea, investment funds SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) and SIF Moldova (SIF2.RO), lender BRD (BRD.RO) and dominant oil company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO). (EUR1=RON4.4816)