The Romanian Parliament’s standing bureaus decided Wednesday the Parliament will convene Thursday at 10 a.m. to read out the request to impeach President Traian Basescu, submitted by the ruling Social Liberal Union (USL).
At around 10:49 local time (GMT0749), the Bucharest bourse’s BET index was down 0.07%, and the composite index BET-C was 0.14% higher.
BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), was down 0.90%, while the extended blue-chip index BET-XT was losing 0.35%.
Energy stocks tracker BET-NG was up 0.17%.
The Bourse’s newly launched tracker, BET-BK, mirroring the top-25 Romanian companies by volumes, opened down 0.23%.
The bourse’s overall traded value was 1.09 million lei (EUR244.564) at around 10:49. (EUR1= 4.4715)