At around 11:00 local time, the Bucharest bourse’s BET index was up 0.58% on the day, while the BET Plus index inched up 0.54%.

BET-FI, which tracks investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds SIFs, rose 0.29% on the day. Proprietatea fund inched down 0.06%, at RON0.8520 a share, and the SIFs opened higher.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK inched up 0.43%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.55% higher on the day. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG gained 0.43%. (EUR1=RON4.4455)