SOFIA (Bulgaria), February 1 (SeeNews) – The indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) ended mostly up as turnover declined on Monday, bourse data showed.
The SOFIX index, which comprises the 20 most liquid shares trading on the BSE, edged up 0.30% to 436.79 points. The BG40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the bourse, gained 0.40% to 118.14 points. On Friday, the SOFIX gained 0.34% and the BG40 rose 0. 29%.
Total turnover, excluding block and other pre-arranged deals, declined to 3.66 million levs ($2.6 million/1.87 million euro) from Friday’s 14.46 million levs.
On Monday, 30 shares rose, 22 dropped and the stocks of eight companies closed unchanged.
Seventeen out of the 20 blue chips were traded on Monday, as six lost ground, one closed flat and the rest advanced.
The most liquid blue chip was insurance and financial group Eurohold Bulgaria, which ended 2.26% up at 1.36 levs in a volume of 1,114,877 stocks.
Blue chip Chimimport traded in a volume of 111,112 ordinary stocks, ending 0.54% up at 2.81 levs. Its preferred shares gained 0.72% to 2.82 levs in a volume of 4,533.
The BG-REIT index, which tracks the performance of real estate investment trusts, lost 0.17% to 46.31 points. The BG TotalReturn30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, rose by 0.43% to 335.22 points. On Friday, the BG-REIT lost 0.09% and the BG TotalReturn30 index decreased by 0.02%.
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 flat at 63.16 points after increasing by 0.25% in the previous session.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)