Romania's SSIF Broker Jan-Sept Net Profit Plunges 89% - Table

Company officials were not immediately available to comment on the results.

The shares of SSIF Broker, part of the blue-chip index BET of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, BVB, rose 2.72% to 0.151 lei on Friday.

SSIF Broker has said it expects its gross profit to fall by 74% to 26.1 million lei this year.

Following is data from SSIF Broker's nine-month income statement, filed to the BVB (in millions of lei):

SSIF Broker (www.ssifbroker.ro) became the first investment intermediary to be listed on the BVB in April 2005, following an initial public offering in 2004.

(1 euro = 3.7296 Romanian lei)