January 27 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian Stock Exchange indices started the week in red territory, with the blue-chip SOFIX index erasing 0.57% to 579.49 points.
Lender First Investment Bank (Fibank) [BUL:5F4] led decliners among SOFIX members with a 2.34% decrease to 3.34 levs, followed by Industrial Holding Bulgaria (IHB) [BUL:4ID] and Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT (BREF) [BUL:5BU], which lost 1.90% and 1.83%, respectively.
Fibank, IHB and BREF were also the top losers among members of the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The BGTR30 ended the session 0.41% lower at 523.49 points.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, slid 0.62% to 113.62 points, as Industrial Capital Holding [BUL:4I8] shares dropped 7.77% to 1.90 levs.
The BGREIT index, which tracks real estate investment trusts, fell 0.71% to 134.14 points, as BREF led decliners among its members.
Total regulated market trading turnover amounted to some 177,000 levs ($100,000/90,000 euro).
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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