SOFIA (Bulgaria), February 3 (SeeNews) – The indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) ended mostly up on Wednesday, as trade in bonds boosted turnover, bourse data showed.
The SOFIX index, which comprises the 20 most liquid shares trading on the BSE, ended 1.01% up at 444.87 points. The BG40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the bourse, gained 1.43% to 119.81 points. On Tuesday, the SOFIX gained 0.84% and the BG40 lost 0.02%.
Total turnover, excluding block and other pre-arranged deals, rose to 2.33 million levs ($1.67 million/1.19 million euro) from Tuesday’s 1.15 million levs. Trade in corporate bonds totalled 1.17 million levs, accounting for half of the daily turnover.
On Wednesday, 40 shares rose, 28 dropped and 13 closed unchanged.
Nineteen of the 20 blue chips were traded on Wednesday with three losing ground, another three closing flat and the rest advancing.
The most liquid blue chip was Industrial Holding Bulgaria, which ended flat at 1.7 levs in a volume of 102,000 stocks.
Blue chip Central Cooperative Bank was also actively traded, adding 0.76% to 1.32 levs in a volume of 80,732 stocks.
The BG-REIT index, which tracks the performance of real estate investment trusts, lost 0.20% to 46.03 points. The BG TotalReturn30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, rose by 1.03% to 339.91 points. On Tuesday, the BG-REIT lost 0.41% and the BG TotalReturn30 index gained 0.36%.
The Dnevnik 20 index, calculated by local business daily Dnevnik from the share prices of the 20 leading companies in terms of liquidity and market capitalisation, ended 1.58% up at 64.83 after closing flat in the previous session.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)