Top-traded issuers included OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and Romgaz (SNG.RO).
At around 11:30 local time (GMT0830), the Bucharest bourse’s BET index edged up 0.15% on the day, while the BET Plus index opened up 0.13%.
BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds SIFs, fell 0.33% on the day.
Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK advanced 0.29%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.13% higher on the day. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG rose 0.63%. (EUR1=RON4.3870)