At around 10:44 local time, the Bucharest Stock Exchange’s composite index BET-C was down a mere 0.05%, while the main index BET was dropping 0.14%.
BET-FI, the index tracking the five regional investment funds, or SIFs, and the Proprietatea fund, was down 0.25% on the day.
Wider blue-chip index BET-XT was down 0.07%, while the index tracking energy companies, BET-NG, was down 0.3%.
Trades unfolded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange by 10:45 amounted to 1.24 million lei (EUR300,000).
Popular stock early Friday included SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO), Erste Group Bank (EBS.RO), Carbochim (CBC.RO), Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO). (EUR1=RON4.2445)