BUCHAREST (Romania), January 11 (SeeNews) – Most of the indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange ended Wednesday’s trading session in positive territory amid turnover higher than the daily average so far this year.
The blue-chip BET index of the Bucharest bourse added 0.17% to 4,378.45 points on Wednesday. The BET-FI, which tracks Romania’s five regional investment funds, the SIFs, and property restitution fund Proprietatea [BSE:FP], jumped 2.64% to 19,851.29 points.
The composite BET-C dipped 0.18% to 2,632.60 points on Wednesday. The ROTX index of Romania 's 15 most liquid stocks, a joint index of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, BVB [BSE:BVB], and the Vienna Stock Exchange, gained 0.21% to 7,973.09 points.
BVB's equity turnover surged to 28.6 million lei ($8.3 million/6.5 million euro) from 7.6 million lei on Tuesday as a total of 1.0 million shares, equal to 0.14% of the share capital of Romanian bank BRD [BSE:BRD], changed hands for 10.9 million lei in two block deals.
Turnover from trading in structured products totalled 2.1 million lei on Wednesday. Trading in futures generated a turnover of 699,000 lei.
Blue chip BRD rose 1.3% to 10.9 lei in Wednesday’s largest turnover of 5.7 million lei.
SSIF Broker [BSE:BRK] led the blue-chip gainers, climbing 2.06% to 0.109 lei in 74,000 lei turnover. Drug maker Biofarm [BSE:BIO] was the top blue-chip loser, slipping 1.04% to 0.19 lei in 1,100 lei turnover.
SIF 2 Moldova [BSE:SIF2] was the top gainer among the SIFs, advancing 6.36% to 1.17 lei in deals worth 1.7 million lei.
The BET-XT index, which tracks the 25 most liquid companies on the bourse, including the SIFs, ended 0.89% up at 411.51 points. The BET-NG, which includes companies from the energy sector and utilities, dipped 0.17% to end at 615.93 points.
Rasdaq-C, the composite index of the over-the-counter market RASDAQ, added 0.32% to 1,585.91 points. Turnover on RASDAQ slid to 151,000 lei from 197,000 lei on Tuesday.
(1 euro = 4.3643 Romanian lei)
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