{"id":4471,"date":"2025-04-07T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2025-04-07T07:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:00:44","slug":"bucharest-stock-exchange-loses-7-5-w-w-as-of-april-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest Stock Exchange loses 7.5% w\/w as of April 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The share capitalization of the Bucharest Stock Exchange dropped by RON 28 billion (EUR 5.6 billion) or 7.5% week-on-week to RON 345 billion (EUR 69.4 billion) on April 4, reaching the year\u2019s lowest value on April 4, according to a market summary compiled by <a href=\"https:\/\/agerpres.ro\/economic\/2025\/04\/06\/capitalizarea-bvb-la-cea-mai-scazuta-valoare-a-anului-in-saptamana-marcata-de-noile-taxe-ale-adminis--1437853?mc_cid=0ba7a72079&amp;mc_eid=607bd7d763\" target=\"_blank\">Agerpres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The main blue chips index BET dropped by 3.9% w\/w after a 2.6% d\/d plunge on April 4, while all the sectoral indices dropped by 3%-4% on the week.<\/p>\n<p>The best trading day was Friday, April 4, when the turnover exceeded RON 121 million, and the weakest was Monday, March 31, with RON 44.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The most liquid shares between March 28 and April 4 were Banca Transilvania (BVB: TLV) shares, which traded at RON 121.3 million, followed by Romgaz (BVB: SNG) shares with RON 30.0 million, and OMV Petrom (BVB: SNP) with RON 25.0 million.<\/p>\n<p>The most important appreciation was recorded by small-cap shares while the most severe decreases were recorded by the shares of Erste Group Bank (BVB: EBS, -14.94% w\/w), Electrica (BVB: EL, -12.36% w\/w) and Impact Developer&amp;Contractor (BVB: IMP, -11.99%).<\/p>\n<p>Externally, the markets dropped even faster, after the US announced import tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On April 2, the US president announced tariffs of 20% on products imported from the European Union, 34% on those from China, 31% on Switzerland, 26% on India, 10% on the UK, and 10% on Brazil. Donald Trump insisted that any product entering the US would be taxed at least 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also announced tariffs of 46% on products imported from Vietnam, 49% on those from Cambodia, 37% on those from Bangladesh and 32% on those from Indonesia. Customs duties on products imported from China were also increased by another 34 percentage points after the previous tariffs of 20%.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Negotin8\/ Dreamstime<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The share capitalization of the Bucharest Stock Exchange dropped by RON 28 billion (EUR 5.6 billion) or 7.5% week-on-week to RON 345 billion (EUR 69.4 billion) on April 4, reaching the year\u2019s lowest value on April 4, according to a market summary compiled by Agerpres. The main blue chips index BET dropped by 3.9% w\/w [&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-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","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=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}