{"id":11887,"date":"2026-09-08T06:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11887"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:01:38","slug":"romanian-stock-exchange-boasts-strongest-ytd-performance-in-europe-despite-deep-august-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11887","title":{"rendered":"Romanian stock exchange boasts strongest YTD performance in Europe despite deep August dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BET index lost 6.7% in August, but still posted a 42.3% gain since the beginning of the year and a 67.4% increase over the past 12 months, ranking first on both horizons among a sample of 38 European national benchmark indices, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/burse-fonduri-mutuale\/bursa-valori-bucuresti-ramane-prima-europa-dupa-august-brutal-plus-42-acest-an-plus-67-ultimele-12-luni-ungaria-plus-33-1-acest-an-polonia-31-3-austria-norvegia-28-8-grecia-27-4-bulgaria-22-9-23233395?mc_cid=e3eea897f8&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe correct story is no longer \u2018Romania, alone in Europe\u2019, but \u2018Central and Eastern Europe leads Europe, and Romania leads the region\u2019,\u201d said Alexandru Dobre, deputy general manager of TradeVille.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary gained 33.1% this year, Poland 31.3%, Austria and Norway 28.8% each, Greece 27.4% and Bulgaria 22.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The European median gain is 12.9%, while major Western European markets remain far behind: France is up 1.6%, Germany 6.3% and Britain 9.1%.<\/p>\n<p>The gap between Bucharest and second place stands at 9.2 percentage points this year and 18.2 percentage points over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The August decline was concentrated in the final trading sessions, with the BET falling 3.6% on August 31 alone, after Romania lost EUR 770 million in European funds by missing the deadline for adopting legislation required under the PNRR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcentration remains the main risk: most of the index\u2019s performance comes from a few stocks,\u201d Dobre said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BET index lost 6.7% in August, but still posted a 42.3% gain since the beginning of the year and a 67.4% increase over the past 12 months, ranking first on both horizons among a sample of 38 European national benchmark indices, Ziarul Financiar reported. \u201cThe correct story is no longer \u2018Romania, alone in Europe\u2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}