The Bucharest Stock Exchange’s composite index BET-C fell 1.66% on the day, to 3,310.64, while the main index BET dropped 1.35%, to 5,500.04.
BET-NG, the index tracking the energy stocks, closed down almost 4%, as Transgaz was joined by Condmag (COMI.RO), Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO) and Rompetrol Well Services (PTR.RO), which all posted declines larger than 3.5%.
The usual attention-grabbers, Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds, or SIFs, stayed in the general market trend, and BET-FI fell 1.39% on the day, to 22,496.15.
Wider blue-chip tracker BET-XT was down 1.14%, to 507.41.
Trades unfolded Thursday on the Bucharest Stock Exchange amounted to 38.47 million lei (EUR9.09 million), with RON8.43 million coming from a total six deal market trades in Carbochim (CBC.RO) and Transgaz (TGN.RO). Yesterday’s overall traded value amounted to RON72.41 million.
Proprietatea shares closed down 1.85%, to RON0.53, on a traded value of RON14.68 million, while Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) stock closed flat at RON1.22, on a traded value of RON2.21 million.
SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) shares closed at RON1.37, down 1.79% on the day, while the shares of lender BRD-Groupe Societe Generale (BRD.RO) inched down 0.21% to RON14.08.
Other popular stock Thursday included Oltchim (OLT.RO), which rose 8.4% to RON1.446, BVB (BVB.RO), which closed flat at RON37, and OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which fell 0.49% to RON0.3856. (EUR1=RON4.2294)