September 11 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian share indices ended mostly higher with modest gains on Friday as turnover fell sharply, bourse data showed.
The SOFIX, which comprises the 20 most liquid shares trading on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE), rose 0.74% to 484.85 points and the broader BG40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the bourse, ended 1.44% higher at 131.28 points.
On Thursday, the SOFIX rose 1.39% and the BG40 gained 0.66%.
Turnover, excluding block and other pre-agreed deals, fell to 1.47 million levs ($1.09 million/752,000 euro) from 5.8 million levs on Thursday.
Bulgarian American Credit Bank was the biggest blue-chip gainer on Friday, adding 6.55% to 19.18 levs in a volume of 5,920 shares.
The biggest SOFIX loser was fuels and building materials retailer Toplivo, falling by 4.63% to 5.70 levs in a volume of 243 shares.
The most traded issue on Friday were the ordinary shares of industrial conglomerate Chimimport, part of the SOFIX. A total of 104,989 shares changed hands, closing unchanged from the previous day at 2.60 levs.
Advancers outnumbered fallers by 46 to 34 and 14 shares closed flat on Friday.
The BG-REIT index, tracking the performance of real estate investment trusts, was the only index to slip into the red on Friday, falling 0.67% to 45.68 points after a 2.16% gain on Thursday. The bourse's BG TotalReturn30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, added 0.32% to 357.35 points after a 0.49% rise in the previous trading session.
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, lost 0.32% to 69.28 points after picking up 2.52% on Thursday.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bulgarian levs)
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