At around 11:00 local time (GMT0800), overall trading reached 6.9 million lei (EUR1.5 million).

The Bucharest bourse’s BET index was down 0.01% on the day, while composite index BET-C opened up 0.04%.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds SIFs, rose 0.03% on the day.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK advanced 0.03%, and extended blue-chip index BET-XT was 0.01% lower on the day. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG rose 0.10%. (EUR1=RON4.4629)