May 18 (SeeNews) - All four main indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed high on Thursday, with the blue-chip SOFIX advancing by 0.50% to 641.72 points.
The top blue-chip gainers were diversified group Chimimport [BUL:CHIM], which added 2.82% to 0.73 levs, and battery maker Monbat [BUL:MONB], which leapt 2.33% to 4.40 levs.
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Chimimport and Monbat also lifted the BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The two indices were further boosted by a 2.18% rise in IoT products maker Allterco [BUL:A4L], to 23.40 levs.
Overall, the BGBX40 rose by 0.17% to 144.42 points, while the BGTR30 finished 0.28% higher at 736.26 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, went up by 0.25% to 189.63 points. It was buoyed by a 0.92% increase at Bulgarian Real Estate Fund [BUL:BREF] to 2.20 levs and a 0.58% climb in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 3.47 levs. The only company in the index to lose ground was Intercapital Property Development [BUL:ICPD], which declined by 1.12% to 0.88 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse dropped to 980,312 levs ($542,778/501,224 euro) on Thursday from 4.22 million levs a day earlier.
Allterco was the top stock by turnover, generating 294,723 levs with 12,595 shares changing hands.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)