Romanian stock indices start week in red, TTS sheds most – SeeNews

March 11 (SeeNews) - Romanian stock indices ended in red on Monday, as freight forwarder Transport Trade Services [BSE:TTS] paced blue-chip decliners, data from the Bucharest Stock Exchange, BVB, indicated.

The total equity turnover of the BVB increased to 41.26 million lei ($9.1 million/8.3 million euro) on Monday, from 27.47 million lei on Friday, BVB data showed.

Shares of blue-chip lender Banca Transilvania [BSE:TLV] inched up by 0.15% to 27 lei in the session's largest trading turnover of 9.47 million lei.

Blue-chip oil and gas group OMV Petrom [BSE:SNP] saw its shares decrease by 1.09% to 0.635 lei in the day's second largest turnover of 7.38 million lei.

Transport Trade Services was the top blue-chip decliner on Monday, shedding 5.56% and closing at 25.5 lei in the day's third largest trading turnover, of 4.97 million lei. The company bought back 4,900 of its shares at an average price of 28.46 lei per share between March 4 and March 8, it said in a report filed with the BVB on Monday. In February, TTS shares ranked twelfth on the list of the most traded shares listed on the BVB, representing 2.29% of the total value of transactions registered by shares included in the bourse's Premium category.

Details follow:

BET is the first index developed by BVB and represents the reference index for the local capital market. BET reflects the performance of the most traded companies on BVBs regulated market, excluding financial investment companies (SIFs). It now includes 20 companies.

BET-TR is the first total return index launched by BVB. It is based on the structure of market reference index BET. BET-TR tracks the price changes of its component shares and is adjusted to also reflect the dividends paid by constituent companies.

BET-FI is the first sector index launched by BVB and reflects the price changes of SIFs and of other assimilated entities.

BET-BK was designed to be used as a benchmark by asset managers and other institutional investors.

BET-NG is a sector index which reflects the evolution of all the companies listed on BVBs regulated market included in the energy and related utilities sector. The maximum index weight a company can hold is 30%.

BET-XT tracks the price changes of the 25 most traded companies listed on BVBs Regulated Market, including SIFs.

BET-XT-TR is the total return version of BET-XT index, which includes the 25 most traded Romanian companies listed at BVB.

ROTX is an index developed by BVB together with Vienna Stock Exchange. It tracks, in real-time, the price changes of the blue-chip shares traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

BET AeRO is the first index for the AeRO market developed by BVB which reflects the price performance of the representative companies listed on the AeRO market that meet the liquidity and free-float market capitalization criteria. It is a free-float market capitalisation-weighted index, with the maximum weight of 15% for an index constituent.

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