At 10:40 local time, the Bucharest Stock Exchange’s composite index BET-C was down 0.09%, while the main index BET was losing 0.21%.

On the other hand, BET-FI index, which tracks the SIFs and investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), advanced 1.3%, while the wider BET-XT inched up 0.31%.

The energy index BET-NG was gaining 0.13%.

Overall trading in Bucharest was RON1.16 million (EUR0.27 million), with nearly half of the value coming from deals with Erste Bank Group AG (EBS.RO) and SIF Banat Crisana (SIF1.RO).

Erste’s shares were up 0.22% at RON67.6, while SIF Banat Crisana was gaining 4% to RON0.765 a share. (EUR1=RON4.3308)