November 16 (SeeNews) - All indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange closed the week in negative territory as trading remained subdued, stock exchange data showed.
The bourse's benchmark SOFIX index inched down 0.07% to 595.31 points and the wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, lost 0.39% to 116.65 points.
Turnover on the regulated market totalled 337,000 levs ($196,400/172,300 euro).
Industrial group Stara Planina Hold [BUL:5SR] led the blue-chip losers with a 2.94% drop to 6.6 levs.
On the opposite end, civil engineering company Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57] was the biggest blue-chip gainer, appreciating 5.63% to 3.00 levs in a volume of 215 shares, after hitting a six-year low a day earlier.
Another blue chip to buck the negative trend was software developer Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SKK], which extended its seven-day winning streak, adding a further 1.52% to 0.9 levs in a healthy volume of 66,580 shares.
On Tuesday, Sirma Group Holding announced that its consolidated net profit rose to 3.3 million levs in the first nine months of the year from 1.7 million levs in the same period of 2017, following a rise in revenue.
Poultry producer Gradus [BUL:GR6], which raised 81.4 million levs in an initial public offering (IPO) in June, was yet another of the few gainers on the Sofia bourse on Friday. A total of 19,299 of its shares changed hands, closing at 1.7 levs, up 4.30%.
The BGREIT index, which tracks the performance of real estate investment trusts (REITs), ended the session at 117.23 points, down 0.10% from a day earlier, pulled down by Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6] - the index's largest component in terms of market capitalisation. Advance Terrafund lost 0.51% to 1.94 levs.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, closed 0.21% lower at 497.42 points.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)