February 8 (SeeNews) - Four of the five indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) retreated on Thursday, with the blue-chip SOFIX edging down 0.07% to 781.32 points, bourse data showed.
First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] was the biggest SOFIX loser, shedding 3.50% to 2.76 levs. The benchmark index was further constrained by Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF], which fell 1.54% to 2.56 levs.
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The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, dipped by 0.19% to 802.80 points. It was held back by the loss at Bulgarian Real Estate Fund, with its biggest decliner being Holding Sveta Sofia [BUL:HSOF], which slumped 12.06% to 3.50 levs.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, closed 0.54% lower at 189.13 points, pressed by Bulgarian Real Estate Fund, as well as a 4.11% slip in Sopharma Buildings REIT [BUL:SFB] to 14.00 levs.
The BEAMX index, which tracks the ten most highly capitalised growth companies, was impacted by Dronamics Capital [BUL:DRON], which dropped 9.43% to 2.40 levs, and electric vehicle manufacturer Sin Cars Industry [BUL:SIN], which erased 5.60% to 0.472 levs. The BEAMX sank 1.88% to 97.10 points.
In contrast, the BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, inched up 0.01% to 161.90 points. The index was buoyed by Industrial Holding Bulgaria [BUL:IHB], which went up 7.69% to 1.82 levs, and fertiliser producer Neochim [BUL:NEOH], which leapt 6.88% to 23.30 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse plunged to 708,155 levs ($389,520/362,073 euro) on Thursday from some 6.53 million levs on Wednesday.
Fibank was the day's top stock by turnover, which amounted to 198,789 levs after 72,025 shares traded.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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