May 26 (SeeNews) - Three of the four indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) lost ground on Friday, with the blue-chip SOFIX shedding 0.10% to 663.38 points.
The SOFIX was pushed lower by fertiliser producer Neochim [BUL:NEOH], which lost 2.26% to 39.00 levs. Diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH] followed, tumbling 2.00% to 8.80 levs.
Neochim and Doverie United Holding also set back the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The index was further pressed by a 1.90% fall at First Investment Bank [BUL:FIB] to 2.06 levs. The BGTR30 closed 0.09% lower at 745.65 points.
The BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, was held back by a 1.83% slip at Bulgarian Real Estate Fund [BUL:BREF] to 2.14 levs and a 0.31% decline in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 3.22 levs. The index erased 0.43% to 188.40 points.
The only index to rise was the BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse. It edged up 0.05% to 146.73 points, lifted by Bulgarian River Shipping company [BUL:BRP], which surged by 14.75% to 0.70 levs, along with machine engineering company Hydraulic Elements and Systems [BUL:HES], which climbed by 3.03% to 6.80 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse plunged to 633,259 levs ($347,578/323,779 euro) on Friday from 8.17 million levs on Thursday.
The day's top stock by turnover was venture capital firm Eleven Capital [BUL:11C], which generated 97,032 levs with 4,451 shares traded. The stock closed 1.87% higher at 21.80 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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