January 7 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian construction company Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57] suffered a 5.67% drop in its share price on Monday, contributing to the continued decline of the blue-chip SOFIX index of the Sofia bourse.
Trace Group Hold shares ended at 2.66 levs on Monday - their lowest close in more than six years.
The SOFIX, which tracks the 15 most liquid and capitalised companies listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange, fell 0.46% to 577.15 points on Monday, extending its losing streak since the start of the year to four consecutive sessions.
Other major blue-chip decliners on Monday included diversified groups Chimimport [BUL:6C4] and Holding Varna [BUL:5V2] with drops of 2.59% and 2.50%, respectively.
Trace Group Hold was also the biggest decliner among members of the BGBX40 and the BGTR30 indices.
The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, dropped 0.12% to 113.32 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, ended 0.02 points higher at 485.69 points.
The BGREIT index gained 0.10% to 120.95 points on Monday due to a 0.51% increase in the share price of its biggest member by market capitalisation - Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6].
The BGREIT, which tracks real estate investment trusts listed both on the regulated market and BaSE Alternative Market of the Sofia bourse, is nearing the all-time high of 121.07 points which it hit in the last trading session for 2018.
Total regulated market trading turnover increased to 1.2 million levs ($703,000/614,000 euro) on Monday from 855,000 levs in the preceding trading session.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)