September 9 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange blue-chip SOFIX index rose 0.19% to 435.07 points on Wednesday, mostly backed by the two real estate investment trusts among its fifteen members.
Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:5BU] led gainers with a 3.57% share price jump, while Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6] added 0.57%.
The only other gainer among SOFIX members on Wednesday was hotel operator Albena [BUL:6AB], which added 0.88%.
Albena is due to drop out of the SOFIX as of September 21 along with diversified group Industrial Holding Bulgaria (IHB) [BUL:4ID], hydraulic equipment manufacturer M+S Hydraulic [BUL:5MH], the BSE announced late on Tuesday. They will be replaced by insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:4EH], construction company Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57] and software company Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SKK].
IHB, M+S Hydraulic and Eurohold Bulgaria shares ended the trading session unchanged, Sirma Group Holding gained 1.48%, while Trace Group Hold fell 0.54%.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, lost 0.55% to 96.63 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free-float of at least 10% have equal weight, slid 0.20% to 480.85 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks real estate investment trusts, rose 0.78% to 133.40 points.
Total daily regulated market trading turnover amounted to 842,000 levs ($509,000/431,000 euro).
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)