BUX falls 0.17% to 146,004.43 points at midday

The BUX was trading lower around midday on Friday, November 13, 2026, as the Budapest Stock Exchange's blue-chip index stood at 146,004.43 points. That was 248.30 points, or 0.17%, below Thursday's close of 146,252.73 points. The T?zsdeforum reported the midday level and the session's mixed performance.

Mixed performance among blue chips

The index had opened almost unchanged at 146,253.27 points, according to T?zsdeforum, before moving lower during the morning. At 11:40 local time, the BUX stood at 146,068.96 points, down 0.13% from the previous close. Around midday, the decline had widened modestly.

OTP was among the main drags, falling 1.22% to 41,450 Hungarian forints in the midday snapshot. Richter was down 0.37% at 13,540 forints. In contrast, MOL rose 2.16% to 4,926 forints, while Magyar Telekom gained 0.40% to 2,994 forints. These individual moves explain the index's mixed tone but do not by themselves establish a broader market trend.

Session remains open in Budapest

The BUX is the Budapest Stock Exchange's continuously calculated blue-chip index. The Budapest Stock Exchange describes it as a free-float-adjusted, market-capitalisation-weighted total-return index calculated in Hungarian forints. Because the Budapest session was still underway at the reported midday reading, the figure is an intraday level rather than a closing value.

For investors, the immediate picture was one of modest pressure rather than a sharp index move. The BUX remained below the previous session's close, while strength in MOL and Magyar Telekom partly offset weakness in OTP and Richter. Further direction will depend on trading later in the Budapest session and developments across European markets.

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