The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) opened Wednesday’s trading session with almost all indices going down, and 7 million RON (1.41million euros) worth of transactions performed in the first 40 minutes after the start of trades.

The main BET index, which tracks the most liquid 20 companies, dropped 0.37%, and the BET-Plus index which shows the evolution of the top liquid 43 shares was also down 0.34%.

The extended blue-chip index BET-XT of the top-liquid 25 issuers fell 0.33%, while the return benchmark index for stock investment funds BET-BK dipped 0.25%.

The BET-FI index of the five financial investment companies opened down 0.39%, while the sectoral energy and related utilities index BET-NG recorded a decline of 0.25%.

The BET AeRO index of the 20 representative companies on the AeRO market was 0.45 percent up.

According to BVB, the issuers to see the largest price rise were Prefab (+8.98%), Transilvania Investment Alliance (+1.38%) and Aerostar (+1.36%).

Conversely, the issuers on a significant downward trend were UAMT (-9,82%), Alumil Rom Industry (-2,51%) and Conpet (-2,05%).

AGERPRES