May 25 (SeeNews) - Two of the four main indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed higher on Thursday, with the blue-chip SOFIX climbing 0.33% to 664.02 points.
Diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH] and First Investment Bank (Fibank) [BUL:FIB] paced the blue-chip gainers. Doverie went up 3.70% to 8.98 levs, whereas Fibank leapt 2.94% to 2.10 levs.
The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, rose by 0.12% to 146.66 points on the back of the increases at Doverie and Fibank. The top gainer in the index, however, was express delivery company Speedy [BUL:SPDY], which surged 10.48% to 116.00 levs.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, edged down 0.01% to 746.31 points. It was set back by a 5.21% drop at diversified group Stara Planina Hold [BUL:SPH] to 9.10 levs and a 1.80% loss at Bulgarian Real Estate Fund [BUL:BREF] to 2.18 levs.
Bulgarian Real Estate Fund weighed on the BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts. The index closed 0.54% lower at 189.22 points, further dragged down by a 0.62% slip in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 3.23 levs and a 0.61% fall in ROI Property Fund REIT [BUL:RPF] to 8.10 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange soared to 8.17 million levs ($4.5 million/4.2 million euro) on Thursday from 613,301 levs on Tuesday. May 24, Sts Cyril and Methodius Day when Bulgaria celebrates its alphabet, education and culture and Slavonic literature, was a market holiday.
The top stock by turnover was hotel operator Sv. Sv. Konstantin i Elena Holding [BUL:SKEH], generating 2.37 million levs with 107,716 units traded. Its shares closed 4.76% higher at 22.00 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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