Popular stocks early Thursday included lenders BRD-Groupe Societe Generale (BRD.RO) and Erste Group Bank (EBS.RO), as well as investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds, or SIFs.

At around 10:45 local time (GMT0745), the stock exchange’s main index BET and composite index BET-C were gaining 0.41% and 0.36% respectively, but the investment fund tracker BET-FI was down 0.18% on the day.

The BET Extended index, or BET-XT, was up 0.23% on the day, while energy tracker BET-NG was gaining 0.2%.

Trades unfolded on the stock exchange by 10:50 local time amounted to 3.21 million lei (EUR0.73 million). (EUR1=RON4.3737)