The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) opened Friday’s trading session with almost all indices on the rise and RON 5.829 million (EUR 1.17 ml) worth of transactions performed in the first 30 minutes after the start of trades.

The main BET index, which tracks the most liquid 20 companies, rose 0.17 percent, and the BET-Plus index which shows the evolution of the top liquid 43 shares was up by an equal percentage.

The extended blue-chip index BET-XT of the top-liquid 25 issuers rose 0.1 percent, while the return benchmark index for stock investment funds BET-BK dropped 0.22 percent.

The BET-FI index of the five financial investment companies dipped 0.86 percent, while the sectoral energy and related utilities index BET-NG inched up 0.04 percent.

The BET AeRO index of the 20 representative companies on the AeRO market was 0.18 percent down.

According to BVB, the issuers to see the largest price rise were Romcab (+5.29 percent), Zentiva (+3.45 percent), and Prebet (+2.97 percent).

Conversely, the issuers on a significant downward trend were Turism Felix (-4.55 percent), Bermas (-3.23 percent), and Evergent Investment (-2.16 percent).

AGERPRES