At around 11:20 local time, the Bucharest bourse’s BET index and total return index BET-TR rose 0.62%, while the BET Plus index increased 0.55%.

BET-FI, which tracks investment fund Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds SIFs, fell 0.51% on the day.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK opened up 0.09%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.46% higher on the day. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG climbed 0.43%.