April 14 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange blue-chip SOFIX index edged down 0.04% to 506.32 points on Wednesday amid a sharp rise in trading turnover, BSE data shows.
Total daily regulated market turnover jumped to 5.2 million levs ($3.2 million/2.7 million euro) on Wednesday from 1.4 million levs in the previous trading session. More than half of the turnover on Wednesday was formed by deals with shares in heating utility Toplofikatsiya-Ruse [BUL:TPLR] worth 2.1 million levs, and transactions with shares in Bulland Investments REIT [BUL:LAND] worth 1.1 million levs.
The SOFIX was largely dragged down by the two banks among its fifteen members on Wednesday, as First Investment Bank (Fibank) [BUL:FIB] and Central Cooperative Bank (CCB) [BUL:CCB] saw share price drops of 3.89% and 2.50%, respectively.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, slid 0.03% to 115.46 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, fell 0.05% to 552.86 points.
The BGREIT index, which follows the performance of seven real estate investment trusts, added 0.10% to 143.95 points, backed by a 0.46% increase in the share price of its largest member - Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER].
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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