At 11:00 local time, the Bucharest bourse’s BET index and total return index BET-TR were down 0.96% on the day while BET Plus was down 0.93%.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds SIFs, lost 0.38% on the day.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK opened down 0.33% and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.80% lower on the day. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG lost 0.73%.