At around 11:00 local time, the Bucharest bourse’s BET and BET Plus indices were up 0.43% on the day.

BET-FI, which tracks investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds SIFs, inched up 0.45%. Proprietatea gained 0.60%, at RON0.9145 a share, and the SIFs posted increases between 0.22% and 1.09% .

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK advanced 0.35%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.42% higher on the day. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG rose 0.31%. (EUR1=RON4.4109)