The Budapest Stock Exchange blue-chip BUX index closed Friday trade down 0.2% at 21,890.70, slumping from early gains on optimism stemming from the eurozone’s Thursday approval of a new bailout package for Greece.
The BUX snapped a three-session gaining streak, losing 37 points on a turnover of HUF 15.35 billion. The BUX fluctuated in a broad, 2.5% range between an intraday high of 21,677 shortly after the bourse’s 9:00 a.m. morning bell and an intra-session low of 22,130 shortly after 3:30 p.m.
The four BSE blue chips stood as follows at Friday’s closing bell:
Magyar Telekom fell 1.3% to HUF 546 on a turnover of HUF 177 million.
OTP Bank inched down 0.3% to HUF 5,585 on a turnover of HUF 12.44 billion.
Drugmaker Richter rose 0.4% to HUF 37,545 on a turnover of HUF 359 million.
Oil and gas group MOL finished unchanged at HUF 20.450 on a turnover of HUF 2.2 billion.
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