October 15 (SeeNews) - The blue-chip SOFIX index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange edged up 0.06% to 610.75 points on Monday, but remained at a 20-month low after taking a 2.09% blow last week amid the global market sell-off.
Diversified group Chimimport [BUL:6C4] gained most among blue-chips, adding 1.47% to a closing price of 2.07 levs per share.
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Recent SOFIX entrant Elana Agrocredit [BUL:0EA] followed with a 0.87% rise to 1.16 levs.
At the other end of the scale, battery maker Monbat [BUL:5MB] posted a 2.67% decline to 7.3 levs. Over the course of last week, Monbat shares erased 3.23%, as the company cut its financial projections until 2022, after its deal to acquire Tunisian peer L'Accumulateur Tunisien Assad fell through.
Total daily trading turnover slumped to just below 300,000 levs ($177,700/153,400 euro) on Monday, after averaging some 1.2 million levs in the five sessions last week.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, gained 0.18% to 119.50 points, supported by a 4.72% rise in shares of express delivery company Speedy's [BUL:0SP]. Last week, Speedy completed the acquisition of 100% of its local peer Rapido Express and Logistics and said it will aim to increase the group's revenue by 50% by 2022.
The BGREIT index, which tracks the performance of real estate investment trusts (REITs), lost 0.20% to 116.94 points.
The biggest REIT on the bourse - Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6], lost 0.50% to 1.98 levs. At the start of the session, the REIT announced it has bought 89.5 hectares of agricultural land at an average price of 5,215 euro per ha in September and sold 19.5 ha for an undisclosed price.
Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:5BU] was the other contributor to the BGREIT's decline, as its shares lost 0.52% to 1.90 levs.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, rose 0.23% to 508.11 points on the back of a 3.16% increase in share price of Industrial Holding Bulgaria [BUL:4ID] shares.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)