BUCHAREST (Romania), November 2 (SeeNews) – Romanian share indices shed ground on Monday in slim volumes as the market remained in anticipation mode, brokers said.
The blue-chip BET index of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, BVB, edged down 0.02% to 4,468.22 points. The BET-FI, which tracks the country's five regional investment funds, the SIFs, was the worst-performing index, dropping 2.8% to 20,670.05 points.
The composite BET-C index lost 0.46% to 2,640.90. The ROTX index of Romania's 15 most liquid stocks, a joint index of the BVB and the Vienna Stock Exchange, fell 0.04% to 9,379.60.
"Except for the SIFs, there were no major stock price fluctuations. It's been like this for some time now. These are the hallmarks of a market in anticipation mode. Upcoming U.S. statistics are keeping market activity in check, but still there are some sellers," one broker told SeeNews.
BVB's turnover fell to 19.7 million lei ($6.8 million/4.6 million euro) from 34.1 million lei on Friday. The number of traded shares was down to 30.1 million from 35.65 million on Friday.
Blue-chip lender Banca Transilvania gained 2.26% to 1.81 lei in the day's largest turnover of 5.4 million lei. SIF 5 Oltenia shed 0.94% to 1.05 lei on deals worth 3.8 million lei, Monday’s second largest turnover. SIF 2 Moldova closed down 3.13% at 0.93 lei on the regular market in the session’s third largest turnover of 1.8 million lei.
The other blue-chip bank, BRD, gained 1.61% to 12.6 lei in deals worth 1.3 million lei. Austria’s Erste Bank shed 1.15% to 120.6 lei in turnover of 1.1 million lei.
SIF 1 Banat Crisana ended 2.91% lower at 1.0 lei in deals worth 1.2 million lei. SIF 3 Transilvania backed off 3.91% to 0.615 lei in 1.5 million lei turnover.
Blue-chip oil and gas group OMV Petrom slid 1.15% to 0.257 lei in 1.4 million lei turnover and blue-chip oil refinery Rompetrol Rafinare slipped 2.01% to 0.0635 lei in deals worth 407,000 lei.
The BET-XT index, which tracks the 25 most liquid companies on the bourse, including the SIFs, was off 0.72% to 428.15 points. The BET-NG, which includes companies from the energy sector and utilities, was down 1.43% to 584.76 points.
Rasdaq-C, the composite index of the over-the-counter market RASDAQ, ticked up 0.04% to 2,219.36. Turnover on the RASDAQ fell to 436,000 lei from 548,000 lei on Friday.
(1 euro = 4.3056 Romanian lei)
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