Foreign investors held 77.4% of the shares listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange at the end of June 2006. Foreign investors were net sellers on the bourse in the second quarter and their share in market capitalisation dropped 1.9%from the end of March, the National Bank of Hungary reported today. Stock market capitalisation dropped by 619 billion forints or 7.2% in the second quarter, to 6,999 billion forints at the end of June after rising 9.3% in the first quarter.
Emerging Markets Editorial Team,
August 22, 2006