Bucharest stocks lost 0.38% in the first half hour of trading and overall trading was kept afloat by Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO).
At around 11:00 local time, the Bucharest Stock Exchange’s main index BET was down 0.61%, while the composite index BET-C was down 0.24%.
BET-FI, which tracks the regional investment funds SIFs and Fondul Proprietatea, was down 0.48%, while the wider BET-XT lost 0.57%.
The energy index BET-NG was down 0.40%.
Overall trading was 4.4 million lei (about EUR1 million), with Fondul Proprietatea accounting for RON3.3 million.