Bucharest Stocks Open Higher, In Dull Trading

10.03.2013 By Bogdan Neagu

The Bucharest stock exchange was slightly up in early session Thursday, but investors's interest for trading in Bucharest is reduced.

At around 10:35 local time (GMT0735), the Bucharest bourse's BET index was up 0.19% from Wednesday's closing level, while general index BET-C was gaining 0.13%.

BET-FI, which tracks Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) and the five regional investment funds (SIFs), was down a mere 0.11%.

Bucharest benchmark index BET-BK was up 0.12%, while extended blue-chip index BET-XT inched 0.06% higher. Energy stocks tracker BET-NG was increasing 0.47%, lifted by Transgaz's (TGN.RO) 1.5% advance.

Fondul Proprietatea was flat on the day at 0.765 lei (EUR0.17) per share, while Banca Carpatica (BCC.RO) traded up 0.4%. OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) was also unchanged from yesterday's closing price of RON0.448.

The trading values were very low, barely reaching RON0.2 million at 10:35. (EUR1=RON4.4511)