March 7 (SeeNews) - Four of the five indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed in the red on Thursday, with the blue-chip SOFIX erasing 0.43% to 797.24 points, bourse data showed.
SOFIX was set back by fertiliser producer Neochim [BUL:NEOH], which sank 4.09% to 21.10 levs, and First Investment Bank [BUL:FIB], which lost 3.70% to 2.60 levs.
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Neochim also pressed both the broader BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The constituent that declined the most in the BGBX40, however, was battery manufacturer Monbat [BUL:MONB], which dropped 7.57% to 3.42 levs.
Overall, the BGBX40 fell by 0.40% to 163.45 points, while the BGTR30 shed 0.50% to 807.37 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, slipped by 0.44% to 189.05 points. It was driven down by a 1.54% tumble in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] to 2.56 levs and a 0.60% dip in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 3.33 levs.
The BEAMX index, which tracks the ten most highly capitalised growth companies, posted the only rise of the day, growing 0.20% to 99.00 points. It was boosted by a 3.36% climb in venture capital fund Webit Investment Network [BUL:WIN] to 0.77 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse was little changed at 1.15 million levs ($640,611/587,984 euro) on Thursday against 1.14 million levs on Wednesday.
The top stock by turnover was IoT products maker Shelly Group [BUL:SLYG], which generated 276,881 levs with 4,569 shares traded. The company closed 2.02% higher at 60.60 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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