At around 10:40 am, the bourse’s composite index BET-C was down 0.18%, while the main index BET was losing 0.19%.
The BET-FI index, which tracks the five regional investment funds SIFs and Fondul Proprietatea, was gaining 0.18%, while the wider BET-XT inched down 0.10%.
Energy tracker BET-NG decreased 0.35% on the day.
Overall trading in Bucharest was RON1.24 million (EUR0.3 million), with RON0.87 million coming from deals with Fondul Proprietatea stock.
Other top-traded issuers Friday morning included Austrian Erste Group Bank AG (EBS.RO), regional investment funds SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) and SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO), and aluminum smelter Alro (ALR.RO).
Alro’s shares were down 0.84% at RON2.49 after the company announced its first-half profit dropped almost twelve-fold on the year to RON15.2 million, hurt by lower sales due to weak demand. (EUR1=RON4.4617)