August 11 (SeeNews) - The blue-chip SOFIX index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed 0.08% lower at 579.50 points on Wednesday, dragged down by a 7.14% decline in the shares of Central Cooperative Bank (CCB) [BUL:CCB].
A total of 36,842 shares in CCB traded at an average price of 1.0920 levs on the BSE on Wednesday.
The BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, rose 0.13% to 127.94 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, edged up 0.01% to 625.03 points. Both indexes were mainly backed by a hefty gain of 11.11% in the share price of express delivery company Speedy [BUL:SPDY].
A total of 21 shares in Speedy traded at an average price of 99.4286 levs on the BSE on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, Speedy said that it is proposing to its shareholders to distribute a gross dividend of 5.25 levs per share for 2020. Speedy plans to distribute a total of 28.2 million levs as dividend, formed by the entire profit reported for last year as well as part of undistributed profit from previous years.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, went up 0.21% to 164.82 points, on the back of a 1.27% increase in the shares of Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF].
Total turnover on the BSE's main market rose to nearly 1.5 million levs ($900,100/766,900 euro) on Wednesday from about 1 million levs on Tuesday.
(1 euro = 1.99583 levs)
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