At around 10:32 local time (GMT0732), the Bucharest bourse’s BET index was up 0.18% from Friday’s closing level, while general index BET-C was up 0.14%.
BET-FI, the index that tracks the main investment funds, was down 0.15%, dragged down by Proprietatea’s decline, despite SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO) 0.9% increase.
BET-BK, the bourse’s benchmark index, was up 0.14%, while extended blue-chip index BET-XT was gaining 0.19%. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG was up a mere 0.09%.
As in the past sessions, traded values were extremely reduced in the first minutes of trading, reaching barely half a million lei (just about EUR110,000) in half an hour.
After the first trades, BRD (BRD.RO) was up 1.2% and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) gained about 0.8%, but Transelectrica (TEL.RO) traded down 0.8%.