December 18 (SeeNews) - All Bulgarian Stock Exchange indices closed on green territory on Wednesday, backed by a significant rise in the share price of financial and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:4EH], bourse data showed.
The Sofia stock blue-chip SOFIX index added 1.24% to 548.04 points, supported by the trading session's top gainer Eurohold Bulgaria, which shares increased by 7.35% to 1.46 levs ($0.83/0.75 euro).
Eurohold managed to return to the gainers' side of the list after its shares dropped 6.85% to 1.36 levs on Tuesday, hitting their lowest closing price since January 2018. Eurohold Bulgaria shares entered bear territory after the country's competition regulator banned its 335 million euro deal to acquire the local assets of Czech energy group CEZ in October. Both Eurohold and CEZ have appealed the regulator's decision before court.
The other major gainers among blue chips on Wednesday were diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:5DOV] and hotel and restaurant operator Albena [BUL:6AB], which added 4.76% and 3.52%, respectively.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, rose by 0.64% to 109.23 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, added 0.62% to 498.67 points. Both indexes were backed by Eurohold's gain during the day.
The BGREIT index, which tracks real estate investment trusts, rose 0.26% to 129.53 points.
Total daily regulated market turnover plunged to some 613,500 million levs on Wednesday from 1.5 million levs on Tuesday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)