July 6 (SeeNews) - All major equity indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed in positive territory on Wednesday, with the blue-chip SOFIX index posting the second-highest gain, of 0.37% to 612.33 points.
The SOFIX was mostly backed by a 3.70% increase in the share price of First Investment Bank, or Fibank [BUL:FIB] to 1.96 levs in a trading volume of 5,061 shares.
The BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the BSE, rose by 0.31% to 143.73 points, on the back of a 9.68% hike in aluminium products manufacturer Alcomet [BUL:ALCM] to 8.50 levs and a 4.17% rise in Stara Planina Hold [BUL:SPH] to 10.0 levs.
Neochim [BUL:NEOH] paced the decliners in both the BGBX40 and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight and which added 0.34% to 739.48 points. Neochim lost 7.45% to 47.20 levs as 1,798 shares changed hands.
The BGTR30 was boosted by a 6.38% increase in diversified group Synthetica [BUL:SYN] to 50.0 levs.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, advanced the most, by 0.51% to 183.47 points, mostly due to a 1.71% rise in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 2.98 levs.
Turnover on BSE's main market slipped to 931,829 levs ($484,960/476,435 euro) on Wednesday from 1.78 million levs on Tuesday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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