Sofia bourse blue-chip index holds on to slim rise backed by BREF, Sirma Group

The only gainers among blue chips on Wednesday were Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:5BU] and software group Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SKK], which added 1.21% and 0.85%, respectively.

Their gains were offset by a decrease in the share price of car battery maker Monbat [BUL:5MB] and lender First Investment Bank (Fibank) [BUL:5F4], which lost 1.12% and 1.06%, respectively.

The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, increased 0.29% to 98.07 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, added 0.26%, to 486.75 points.

The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, advanced 0.25% to 134.57 points.

Total daily regulated market trading turnover amounted to 327,000 levs ($197,000/167,000 euro).

(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)