BUX Up: Main Index at Budapest Stock Exchange Outperforms Peers

  • 28 Oct 2024 6:56 AM
BUX Up: Main Index at Budapest Stock Exchange Outperforms Peers
The Budapest Stock Exchange's main BUX index finished Friday up 0.74pc at 74,263.78, holding on to most of an early advance and outperforming its peers in the region and in Western Europe.

OTP Bank led the advance, climbing 1.76pc to HUF 19,030. Turnover of the share reached HUF 6.5bn from a HUF 9.2bn session total.

Oil and gas company MOL rose 0.31pc to HUF 2,620 on turnover of HUF 0.9bn.

Pharma share Richter edged down 0.18pc to HUF 10,900 on turnover of HUF 1.3bn.

Magyar Telekom fell 0.74pc to HUF 1,078 on turnover of HUF 0.1bn.
 

The bourse's mid-cap BUMIX index climbed 0.66pc to 6,831.56

Elsewhere in the region, Warsaw's WIG 20 inched down 0.01pc and the Prague PX finished flat.

In Western Europe, London's FTSE 100 was down 0.06pc ahead of the end of trade, Frankfurt's DAX edged up 0.22pc and the CAC 40 in Paris inched up 0.04pc.

The BUX edged up 0.05pc on the week as OTP rose 0.53pc, MOL fell 0.91pc, Richter lost 0.55pc and MTel climbed 0.37pc.

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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