January 9 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian Stock Exchange indices ended in green territory on Thursday, backed by a rise in the share price of software group Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SKK ], bourse data showed.
The blue-chip SOFIX index advanced 0.34% to 577.72 points, as Sirma Group Holding led gainers with a 3.28% rise in its share price to 0.63 levs ($0.36/0.32 euro).
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, added 0.12% to 113.36 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, rose 0.18% to 523.24 points. Both indices were positively affected predominantly by the rise in Sirma Group's share price.
The BGREIT index, which tracks real estate investment trusts, increased by 0.14% to 132.56 points, as a 0.99% rise in the share price of Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT's [BUL:5BU] compensated for a 0.27% fall of Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6].
Total regulated market trading turnover rose to 1.3 million levs on Thursday, from 1.1 million levs on Wednesday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)