September 16 (SeeNews) - Two of the four main indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed in decline on Friday, with the blue-chip SOFIX edging down 0.22% to 603.74 points, bourse data showed.
The SOFIX was dragged down by a 3.30% drop in M+S Hydraulic [BUL:MSH] to 8.80 levs as well as a 1.94% decline in Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG] to 2.02 levs in a trading volume of 1,900.
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The weak performance of Eurohold and M+S Hydraulic also kept the BGBX40 index , which tracks the bourse's 40 most traded shares, in the red. The BGBX40 finished the trading week 0.08% lower at 139.93 points, in spite of a 9.49% jump in Zarneni Hrani Bulgaria [BUL:ZHBG] to 0.173 levs.
By contrast, the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, ticked up 0.14% to 731.37 points, after Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] and Elana AgroCredit [BUL:EAC] notched gains of 2.65% and 2.00%, respectively.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, added the most on Friday, 0.52% to 182.64 points.
Battery maker Monbat [BUL:MONB] was today's most traded stock, with as many as 66,653 shares bought and sold at an average price of 4.62 levs. It closed 0.42% higher at 4.80 levs, generating turnover of 319,934 levs.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market fell to 912,754 levs ($465,720/466,680 euro) on Friday from some 2.21 million levs on Thursday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)