September 29 (SeeNews) - The main indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) all closed lower on Thursday, with the blue-chip SOFIX retreating further away from the 600-point mark, by 0.86% to 585.29 points.
Energy and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG] and First Investment Bank [BUL:FIB], or Fibank, drove the decline in the SOFIX. Eurohold closed 4.67% lower at 2.04 levs while Fibank dropped 3.28% to 1.77 levs with 8,628 shares traded.
The loss in Eurohold, combined with a 3.41% drop in Agria Group Holding [BUL:AGH] to 25.50 levs also weighed on the BGBX40 index, which tracks the bourse's 40 most traded shares and the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight.
The BGBX40 ticked down 0.40% to 136.73 points, further constrained by Fibank's loss, whereas the BGTR30 index, for its part, slipped 0.15% to 713.17 points.
Among the constituents of the two indices, Alcomet [BUL:ALCM] rose the most, by 6.67% to 8.00 levs while Stara Planina Hold [BUL:SPH] added 3.39% to 9.15 levs.
A 2.08% slide in Advance Terrafund [BUL:ATER] to 2.82 levs spelled a decline of 0.49% in the BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market slumped to 980,497 levs ($489,810/501,320 euro) on Thursday from 3.76 million levs on Wednesday.
The most traded stock was Sopharma [BUL:SFA] which generated turnover of 255,150 levs with as many as 56,700 shares bought and sold. Sopharma closed flat at 4.50 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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