Bancherul - BANCI / ENGLISH / Stocks listed at Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) roase

Stocks listed at the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) rose today led by the five financial companies known as SIFs which increased 4 percent on closing; stocks in Europe climbed.

Deals totaled 32.78 million lei (8.95 million euros) versus 18.78 million lei yesterday.

At the closing hour in Bucharest most European markets saw significant advance driven by banks which started to grow after the U.S. investment lender Goldman Sachs reported a better-than-expected profit in the second quarter.

The FTSE index in London gained 2.05 percent to 5,913, the DAX index in Frankfurt grew 1.72 percent to 6,845 and the CAC 40 in Paris rose 1.15 percent to 4,711.

The BET index of the ten best companies in Romania gained 0.32 percent to 7,383.17 on high volatility and the BET-C composite index measuring all listed shares minus investment funds increased 0.35 percent to 5,240.56.

The BET-FI index of the five SIFs gained 4 percent to 55,155.94 on constant buying pressure and the ROTX index for trading blue-chips at the Vienna Stock Exchange climbed 1.28 percent to 17,128.33.

SIF Transilvania (SIF3) jumped 7.78 percent to 1.80 lei generating most of the deals on the market of 5.29 million lei. SIF Banat-Crisana (SIF1) gained 1.71 percent to 2.38 lei on deals of 3.11 million lei, SIF Oltenia (SIF5) grew 0.46 percent to 21.70 lei, SIF Moldova (SIF2) went up 1.83 percent to 2.22 lei.

Paint marker Policolor (PCL), the star in the morning session, added 10.65 percent to 4.25 lei on deals of 4.29 million lei.

The second lender by assets on the Romanian market, BRD SocGen (BRD) advanced 0.46 percent to 21.70 lei and Erste Bank (EBS) listed on the international tier and the majority owner of the largest bank by assets in Romania BCR, climbed 5.15 percent to 173.50 lei.