At around 10:44 local time (GMT0844), the stock exchange’s composite index BET-C and main index BET were gaining 0.7% and 0.4% on the day respectively.
BET-FI, the index tracking the main investment funds, was up 1% on the day.
Wider blue-chip tracker BET-XT was up 0.7%, while the index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, was rising 0.3% on the day.
Trades unfolded on the stock exchange by 10:46 local time amounted to 1 million lei (EUR233,244).
Aside from Oltchim, popular stock early Friday included SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO), Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), Electroarges (ELGS.RO) and SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO). (EUR1=RON4.3398)