Bucharest Stock Exchange down after first round of presidential elections
All stock indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange are down on Monday, May 5, a day after the first round of the presidential elections in which ultranationalist candidate George Simion won first place with over 40% of votes.
Radu Dumitrescu · Journalist
· Updated · 2 min read
All stock indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange are down on Monday, May 5, a day after the first round of the presidential elections in which ultranationalist candidate George Simion won first place with over 40% of votes.
The benchmark BET index was down 2.52% at the time of writing. The composite BET-XT and the energy BET-NG indexes were also down. Approximately 8.2 million Romanian employees are indirectly the largest investors in listed companies through Pillar II private pension funds.
