The Bucharest Stock Exchange’s composite index BET-C fell 0.32% on the day to 3,390.12, while the main index BET dropped 0.47% to 5,593.89.
BET-FI, the index tracking the five regional investment funds, or SIFs, and investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), fell 0.78% on the day, to 23,054.78.
Wider blue-chip index BET-XT declined 0.72%, to 520.32, while the index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, closed down 0.98%, to 815.5.
Trades unfolded Wednesday on the Bucharest Stock Exchange amounted to 42.28 million lei (EUR10.12 million), with RON26.45 million coming from transactions in the usual top-traded issuer, Fondul Proprietatea.
Proprietatea shares inched up 0.09%, to RON0.535, while Oltchim shares fell 3.32%, to RON1.98.
Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO), today’s second-top traded stock, closed flat on the day at RON1.23, on a traded value of RON2.48 million.
Lender BRD-Groupe Societe Generale (BRD.RO) saw its shares inch up 0.07%, to RON14.31, on a traded value of RON1.93 million.
Other popular stock Wednesday included Transgaz (TGN.RO), which dipped 0.94%, OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which fell 1.53%, and SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO), which was down 1.66%. (EUR1=RON4.1756)