The Bucharest Stock Exchange’s composite index BET-C fell 0.26% on the day, to 3,312.27, mostly held back by the 8.05% decline, to 1.85 lei (EUR0.43), posted by Oltchim (OLT.RO) and the 2.38% day-on-day decline, to RON0.0673 seen by Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO).
The BET index, which tracks the top 10 blue-chips, rose 0.68% on the day, to 5,508.70, as the 4.08% increase of Banca Transilvania and the 1.85% increase of bourse operator BVB (BVB.RO) managed to compensate for the 0.83% decline of the heaviest issuer in this index, investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO).
BET-FI, the index tracking the five regional investment funds, or SIFs, and the Proprietatea fund, fell 0.72%, as SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) was the only one to post an increase, of 0.29% on the day.
The index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, closed down 0.58%, to 771.61, held back by the 11% decline of PetrolExportImport (PEI.RO).
Trades unfolded Thursday on the Bucharest Stock Exchange amounted to RON31.94 million, with RON17.56 million coming from trades in the Proprietatea fund, and RON2.71 million coming from two deal market trades in SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO) and SIF Transilvania.
Proprietatea stock, today’s top-traded shares, closed at RON0.535, while SIF Transilvania shares closed at RON0.513.
Banca Transilvania shares closed at RON1.25 and BVB stock closed at RON37.4.
Other popular stock Thursday included OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), which rose 0.26% to RON0.382, and Concefa (COFI.RO) which jumped 7.37% to RON0.118.