At 11:00 local time, the Bucharest bourse’s BET index, and total return index BET-TR were up 0.44% on the day while BET Plus was up 0.43%.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds SIFs, lost 0.16% on the day.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK opened up 0.23% and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.34% higher on the day. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG gained 0.18%.