September 8 (SeeNews) - Half of the indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed Thursday's session on the decline, with the blue-chip SOFIX recording a four-day losing streak after it retreated 0.13% to 606.67 points.
The decline in the SOFIX was chiefly due to a 1.07% drop in Sopharma Trading [BUL:SFT] to 5.54 levs and an accompanying slip of 0.89% in its parent company Sopharma [BUL:SFA] to 4.44 levs.
Earlier in the day, Sopharma announced that it has hiked to 85% its stake in Sopharma Trading.
The drug maker was also the BSE's most traded stock on the day, generating a turnover of some 1.51 million levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse ticked down to 1.85 million levs ($942,560/945,890 euro) on Thursday from 3.07 million levs on Wednesday.
Holding Varna [BUL:HVAR] was the biggest blue-chip gainer on the third trading day of the week following Tuesday's public holiday. the holding's stock added 0.94% to 43.00 levs.
The losses in Sopharma and its subsidiary, however, did not drag down the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The BGTR30 closed 0.05% higher at 732.33 points, buoyed by a 1.10% increase in Sopharma Properties [BUL:SFI] to 9.20 levs and a 1.00% rise in Elana AgroCredit [BUL:EAC] to 1.01 levs.
The wider BGBX40 index finished only just in the red, down 0.01% to 140.17 points, as a 3.14% climb in software company Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SGH] to 0.82 levs was not enough to offset a 1.85% dip in Sofia Commerce-Pawn Brokerage [BUL:SCOM] and a 1.10% decline in civil engineering contractor Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57].
The BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, was the other index to finish in green territory, advancing 0.07% to 182.57 points, as Advance TerraFund REIT [BUL:ATER] inched up 0.34% to 2.97 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)