BUX edges down

The Budapest Stock Exchangeʼs main BUX index finished the session on Monday down 0.22% at 27,081.72 after spending most of the session just under the break-even mark.
OTP Bank slipped 0.25% to HUF 7,305 on turnover of HUF 6.0 bln, nearly two-thirds of the HUF 9.1 bln session total.
Oil and gas company MOL fell 0.18% to HUF 16,420 on turnover of HUF 1.2 bln.
Drugmaker Richter edged down 0.11% to HUF 5,600 on turnover of HUF 1.5 bln.
Magyar Telekom dropped 0.63% to HUF 470 on turnover of HUF 0.2 bln.
The bourseʼs mid-cap BUMIX index rose 0.34% to 1,761.29.
Elsewhere in the region, Warsawʼs WIG 20 rose 0.33% but the Prague PX slipped 0.22%.
Western Europeʼs biggest indices were all higher before the end of trade on Monday. Londonʼs FTSE 100 inched up 0.06%, Frankfurtʼs DAX climbed 0.59% and the CAC 40 in Paris was up 0.31%.
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