July 13 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) all closed lower on Wednesday, with a sharp loss in aluminium producer Alcomet [BUL:ALCM] and a decline in diversified group Chimimport [BUL:CHIM], bourse data showed.
The blue-chip SOFIX index fell below the 600-point mark, slipping 1.41% to 598.12 points.
Chimimport led the decliners among SOFIX constituents, closing 11.66% lower at 0.86 levs in a trading volume of 136,836 shares.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, declined 1.22% to 139.83 points, dragged down by a 16.47% slide in Alcomet to 7.10 levs and a 9.23% drop in cable manufacturer Emka [BUL:EMKA] to 3.54 levs.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, erased 0.67% to 727.79 points, mostly on the back of losses in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF], down 5.37% to 2.32 levs, and Bulgarian Stock Exchange [BUL:BSE], which slipped 4.53% to 9.85 levs.
The largest decline on Wednesday was registered by the BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts. The BGREIT closed 1.67% lower at 184.42 points, further brought down by a 2.60% decline in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 3.00 levs.
Agribusiness company Agria Group Holding [BUL:AGH] was the most traded stock on the BSE, generating over 80% of the total main market turnover. Agria Group Holding closed 0.69% higher at 29.00 levs with 126,747 shares traded, after the company announced that it was buying local AgriVia Oil to boost its oilseed and vegetable oils trading business.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market reached 4.52 million levs ($2.3 million/2.3 million euro) on Wednesday, up from 3.3 million levs on Tuesday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)