May 17 (SeeNews) - The four main Bulgarian stock indices all closed higher on Wednesday, with the blue-chip SOFIX inching up 0.06% to 638.54 points, bourse data showed.
Drug maker Sopharma [BUL:SFA] was the only SOFIX constituent that registered a gain, ticking up 1.39% to 5.84 levs.
By contrast, First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] paced the decliners, with a retreat of 1.90% to 2.06 levs.
The broader BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, went up 0.22% to 144.18 points, chiefly on the back of 13.64% jump in industrial diversified group Synergon Holding [BUL:SNRG] to 1.00 levs with 4,550 shares bought and sold.
The BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, finished at 734.18, just 0.08% higher than the previous day. It was pushed up by Sopharma as well as by a 2.33% advance in software developer Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SGH] to 0.66 levs.
Lastly, The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, was the only one to end the trading session unchanged, at 189.16 points, as so remained the only three of its members to book any trades -- Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER], Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] and Super Borovetz Property Fund REIT [BUL:SBPF].
Total turnover on the main market of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange soared to 4.22 million levs ($2.3 million/2.15 million euro) on Wednesday from 1.93 million levs on Tuesday.
Concord Fund South-East Europe [BUL:CCR7] was the top stock by turnover, generating 3.1 million levs in a trading volume of 224,930 shares. The stock slipped 0.72% to close at 13.80 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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