At 10:30 local time (GMT0830), the bourse’s main index BET was up 0.19% from Friday closing level, while general index BET-C was gaining 0.16%.

Transgaz (TGN.RO) was up 0.45% and Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) traded 0.3% higher, while OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) was flat on the day.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), was down 0.76%, as SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO) was falling 3.7% after the fund announced it would not pay dividends this year.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK was down 0.23% and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was down a mere 0.09%. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG was up 0.19%.

The traded values were very low, as share transfers reached 0.67 million lei (EUR0.15 million) after 30 minutes of trading, with SIF Bant-Crisana and Transgaz as the most traded stocks.