Romanian stocks appreciate at closing bell after a helping hand from the blue-chips
The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) indexes shot up at closing after a week of moderate advance with the blue chips growing 2.4 percent, on recovery of external markets.
Liquidity hiked from 13.27 million lei to 20.74 million lei. The BET index of the ten best companies on the market advanced 2.41 percent to 3,159.38 and the BET-C composite index measuring all listed shares without financial companies gained 1.63 percent to 2,000.58.
The BET-FI index of the five financial companies known as SIF nudged up 1.13 percent to 15,788.37 and the ROTX index for trading blue chips in Vienna grew by 2.20 percent to 6,344.60.
The BET-XT index the 25 most liquid stocks climbed 1.96 percent to 306.36 and the BET-NG index of the ten power companies hiked 1.69 percent to 470.71.
The second bank by assets and network BRD SocGen (BRD) appreciated 2.07 percent to 7.40 lei, generating the highest liquidity of 2.28 million lei. The fifth bank by assets, Banca Transilvania (TLV) advanced 4.08 percent to 1.02 lei. Austrian-based lender Erste Bank (EBS) climbed 1.05 percent to 76.80 lei.
Financial company SIF Oltenia appreciated 2.50 percent to 0.82 lei, SIF Moldova (SIF2) hiked 0.76 percent to 0.6650 lei.