Bucharest Stocks Slightly Up On Very Low Traded Values

01.06.2014 By Bogdan Neagu

The Bucharest stock exchange inched higher Monday morning, but the interest for trading was extremely reduced.

At around 10:30 local time (GMT0830), the Bucharest bourse’s BET index was up 0.2%, while composite index BET-C traded 0.14% higher.

Investment fund tracker BET-FI was losing 0.12%, as SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1.RO) traded 0.5% lower, while Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and SIF Oltenia (SIF5.RO) were both down 0.2%.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK inched up 0.1%, while extended blue-chip index BET-XT was up 0.14%. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG was up a mere 0.07%.

The bourse’s turnover was extremely reduced, as share transfers barely reached 0.5 million lei (EUR0.1 million) after 30 minutes of trading.