Bucharest Stock Exchange closes higher Friday's session

The Bucharest Stock Exchange closed Friday's session higher on most indices, and the total value of transactions was 85.362 million RON (17.150 million euros).

Romgaz shares were the most liquid, generating exchanges of 33.397 million RON on the Regulated Market, followed by Banca Transilvania - 14.687 million RON and OMV Petrom - 8.219 million RON.

The main index of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, BET, which includes the 20 most traded companies listed on the Regulated Market, appreciated by 0.37%, up to 17,570.12 points.

The BET-Plus index, which tracks the performance of the 43 most liquid stocks, closed up 0.38%, the extended blue-chip index BET-XT of the 25 most liquid stocks rose 0.31%, and the SIF index, BET-FI, closed down 0.62%.

The BET-BK index, the benchmark for investment fund performance, rose 0.05%, while the BET-NG index, which tracks the performance of the ten energy and utilities companies, closed up 0.71%.

The BET AeRO index, which tracks 20 representative companies on the AeRO market, rose 0.42%.

The best developments were recorded by Sinteza shares (+14.43%), SIF Hoteluri (+7.78%) and COMCM (+7.06%).

On the other hand, the most significant decreases were recorded by Altur shares (-14.29%), Mecanica Fina (-11.38%) and Electroaparataj (-6.36%).