May 4 (SeeNews) - All but one of the share indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) finished Wednesday's trading session in the red, with the blue-chip SOFIX index edging down 0.14% to 602.52 points, bourse data showed.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market rose to 1.36 million levs ($732,646/695,356 euro) from just 781,220 levs on Tuesday, the first trading session this week.
First Investment Bank [BUL:FIB] weighed down on the SOFIX, as its shares erased 4.46% to 2.14 levs in a trading volume of 5,445 shares. FIB also paced the decliners from the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight.
A 2.78% gain in Chimimport [BUL:CHIM] to 0.88 levs was not enough to keep the BGTR30 in green territory. The index closed 0.04% lower at 719.16 points.
The BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, retreated 0.21% to 142.31 points, mostly due to a 7.07% slump in Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57] to 3.68 levs as 4,935 shares changed hands.
BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, was the only index to close with a gain, inching up 0.06% to 180.30 points as it was pulled up by a continued rise in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF], by 0.93% to 2.18 levs on Wednesday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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