At around 10:42 local time (GMT0742), the Bucharest bourse’s BET index was down 0.6%, while composite index BET-C was losing 0.5%.
BET-FI, which tracks Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), was down 0.76%. Proprietatea was down 0.47%, but all the SIFs posted even larger losses, with SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO) sliding 1.6%.
Erste Group Bank (EBS.RO) traded down 1.5%, keeping the Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK down 0.7%.
The bourse’s overall traded value was 3.1 million lei (EUR0.7 million), with Proprietatea trades amounting to almost RON2 million. (EUR1=RON4.4975)