At 10:30 local time (GMT0830), the Bucharest bourse’s BET index was falling 0.22%, while general index BET-C was down 0.16%. The 1.3% decline of BRD-SocGen (BRD.RO) weighed heavily on both indexes as most of the other blue-chips were staying around Thursday closing levels.
BET-FI, on the other hand, was rising 0.11%, lifted by Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), which was up 0.2%, and SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) and SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO), which were both gaining 0.2%.
Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK was up a mere 0.1%, while extended blue-chip index BET-XT was down 0.16%. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG inched 0.1% lower.
After 30 minutes of trading, the bourse’s turnover reached RON0.95 million (EUR0.2 million), just about half of yesterday’s value at the same time. (EUR1=RON4.5272)