At 11:20 local time, the Bucharest bourse’s BET index, and total return index BET-TR were up 0.56% on the day while BET Plus was up 0.54%.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds SIFs, lost 0.31% on the day.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK opened up 0.06% and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.39% higher on the day. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG gained 0.46%.