The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) opened Wednesday’s trading session with all indices going down, and RON 12.4 billion (EUR 2.49 ml) worth of transactions performed in the first 35 minutes after the start of trades.

The main BET index, which tracks the most liquid 20 companies, dropped 0.23 percent, and the BET-Plus index which shows the evolution of the top liquid 43 shares was also down 0.20 percent.

The extended blue-chip index BET-XT of the top-liquid 25 issuers fell 0.19 percent, while the return benchmark index for stock investment funds BET-BK dipped 0.02 percent.

The BET-FI index of the five financial investment companies lost 0.16 percentage points, while the sectoral energy and related utilities index BET-NG was down 0.26 percent.

According to BVB, the issuers to see the largest price rise were UCM Resita (+14.39 percent), Condmag (+8.33 percent), and Prebet Aiud (+4.85 percent).

Conversely, the issuers on a significant downward trend were Transilvania Insurance Broker (-1.86 percent), Zentiva (-1.73 percent), and Roca Industry Holdingrock1 (-1.18 percent).

AGERPRES