The Bucharest Stock Exchange (Romanian: Bursa de Valori Bucureşti) is a stock exchange in Bucharest, capital of Romania. On December 1, 2005, Bucharest's electronic over-the-counter stock market, Rasdaq, was merged with the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
The total capitalisation of the Bucharest Stock Exchange is around €11 billion (2011), making it a medium CEE stock exchange.
The exchange has pre-market sessions from 09:30am to 10:00am and normal trading sessions from 10:00am to 4:45pm on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance.
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