July 3 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian share indices ended mostly down on Friday mirroring falls in U.S. and Europe, with turnover rising on the back of deals in special purpose vesicles (SPV), brokers said.
The blue-chip SOFIX index, which comprises the 20 most liquid shares on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE), fell 0.55% to 353.31 points, and the broader BG40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the bourse, gained 0.13% to 100.13 points.
The BG-REIT index, tracking the performance of real estate investment trusts, decreased 1.25% to 40.34 points. The bourse's BG TotalReturn30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, shed 0.18% to 264.3 points.
Trading continued to suffer from low liquidity as the sharper falls were a result of the declines of the U.S. and European markets on Thursday sparked by poor jobs data, Ug Market brokerage said in a daily note.
The U.S. Labor Department reported bigger than expected job cuts and Europe's unemployment rate also increased in May.
On Friday, 26 Bulgarian shares rose, 24 declined, and nine ended unchanged.
The most traded company was financial and industrial group Eurohold Bulgaria, which plunged 5.45% to 1.04 levs.
Among the most liquid companies was also Central Cooperative Bank (CCB), which sagged 1.05% to 1.23 levs.
Turnover, excluding block and other pre-agreed deals, rose to 1.31 million lev from 792,000 levs on Thursday. Trade in SPVs contributed 809,000 levs to Friday’s turnover.
REIT Advance Terrafund fell 0.50% to 1.0 levs in a volume of over 478,000 shares, the highest for the day.
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, skidded 1.02% to 52.26 points.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bulgarian levs)