April 12 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange blue-chip SOFIX index posted consecutive losing sessions, ending 0.67% lower at 575.13 points on Friday, after dropping 0.74% on Thursday.
Three blue chips - diversified groups Holding Varna [BUL:5V2] and Doverie United Holding [BUL:5DOV], as well as drug maker Sopharma [BUL:3JR], fell most among all BSE-listed companies on Friday.
Holding Varna shares erased 3.38%, while Sopharma and Doverie United Holding lost 2.86% and 2.22%, respectively.
The three companies are also members of the the wider BGBX40 index and the equally-weighted BGTR30 index.
The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, declined 0.42% to 114.85 points, while the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, dropped 0.28% to 501.14 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks real estate investment trusts, closed unchanged at 120.76 points, as a 0.53% rise in the share price of Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:5BU] was offset by a 0.53% drop in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6] shares. Earlier this week, the index tied its all-time high of 121.26 points.
Total regulated market trading turnover fell to 263,000 levs ($152,000/134,000 euro) on Friday from 731,000 levs on Thursday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)