August 25 (SeeNews) - The main indices tracking Bulgarian Stock Exchange-listed companies all ended lower on Thursday in another session marked by a limited trading turnover.
The blue-chip SOFIX index posted the steepest decline, of 1.58% to 607.32 points.
Diversified group Industrial Holding Bulgaria [BUL:IHB] paced blue-chip decliners, losing 2.86% to 2.04 levs. It was closely followed by energy and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG], which retreated 2.78% to 2.10 levs.
First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] was the only blue-chip index constituent to finish the trading session on the rise, adding 1.00% to 2.02 levs in a trading volume of 6,000.
The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, slipped 1.01% to 141.35 points, further weighed down by a 3.25% decline in hotel operator Albena [BUL:ALB] to 29.80 levs.
The losses in IHB and Eurohold spelled a 0.61% drop in the BGTR30 index, under which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, to 735.94 points despite a 2.58% rise in Bulgarian Stock Exchange [BUL:BSE] to 9.95 levs.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, depreciated 0.91% to 182.64 points, on the back of a 2.50% loss at Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] and a 2.01% drop in Advance TerraFund [BUL:ATER].
Total turnover on the main market of the BSE slightly rose to 991,230 levs ($506,600/506,810 euro) on Thursday from 615,480 levs on Wednesday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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