September 12 (SeeNews) - The main indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) made gains on Monday, in the first day of the new trading week after the stock exchange operator announced upcoming revisions in the composition of three of the four main ones, including the blue-chip SOFIX.
The SOFIX jumped 1.16% to close at 612.22 points, on the back of significant gains in Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH], Industrial Holding Bulgaria [BUL:IHB], Central Cooperative Bank [BUL:CCB] and Sopharma Trading [BUL:SFT].
The top blue-chip gainer was Doverie, surging 7.99% to 7.84 levs with 35,467 shares traded, followed by Industrial Holding Bulgaria which closed 7.53% higher at 2.00 levs in a trading volume of 10,000.
Doverie, Industrial Holding Bulgaria and CCB also contributed to a rise in both the wider BGBX40 index and the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight.
The BGBX40 advanced 0.72% to 141.72 points whereas the BGTR30 appreciated 0.88% to close at 740.29 points.
On the losing side, BGBX40 constituent Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57] slipped 3.74% to 3.60 levs while investment firm Eleven Capital [BUL:11C], a member of both the BGBX40 and the BGTR30, finished trading 1.82% lower at 21.60 levs.
The BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, inched up a mere 0.08% to 182.83 points as a gain of 1.74% in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] to 2.34 levs was offset by a 1.34% drop in Advance TerraFund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 2.94 levs.
Exclusive Property REIT [BUL:EXPR] was the most traded stock on Monday, generating a turnover of 392,813 levs with as many as 261,875 shares bought and sold. It climbed 3.45% to 1.50 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse increased to 1.98 million levs ($1.02 million/1.01 million euro) from 834,873 levs on Friday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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