January 8 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange benchmark SOFIX index closed 0.03% higher on Tuesday, ending its four-day losing run since the start of 2019.
Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57] shares rose most among blue chips, gaining 3.76% to 2.76 levs, after they hit a six-year low in the preceding trading session.
Other major gainers among SOFIX members were car battery maker Monbat [BUL:5MB] and diversified group Holding Varna [BUL:5V2], which added 2.61% and 2.56%, respectively.
At the other end of the scale, resort operator Albena [BUL:6AB] dropped 6.99%, while lender Central Cooperative Bank [BUL:4CF] shedded 3.01% to an end price of 1.29 levs - its lowest since November 2016.
Albena's share price fell most among members of two other Sofia bourse indices - the BGBX40 and the BGTR30.
The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, edged down 0.07% to 113.24 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, lost 0.03% to 485.56 points.
The BGREIT index ended unchanged at 120.95 points, just 0.1% shy of its all-time high of 121.07 points, set in the last trading session of 2018.
Total regulated market trading turnover shrank to 195,000 levs ($114,000/100,000 euro) on Tuesday from 1.2 million levs on Monday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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