September 18 (SeeNews) - The blue-chip SOFIX index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange ended its four-day losing streak by gaining 0.32% on Tuesday, backed by a solid session for blue-chip lenders, REITs and resort operator Albena [BUL:6AB].
The SOFIX index ended the session at 629.86 points, as Albena led blue-chip gainers with a 2.97% rise to a closing price of 52 levs.
Blue-chip lenders Central Cooperative Bank (CCB) [BUL:4CF] and First Investment Bank (Fibank) [BUL:5F4] added 2.64% and 1.53%, respectively. CCB bounced back from a 3.13% drop in the previous session.
Real estate investment trusts Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:5BU] and Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6] gained 2.09% and 0.99%, respectively, leading the BGREIT index to a 0.61% increase to 117.37 points. No other BGREIT components traded on Tuesday.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, rose 0.61% to 117.37 points backed by a 10% increase in the share price of Severcoop Gamza Holding [BUL:6S4], which partially erased losses from last week.
The BG TotalReturn30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, edged down 0.03% to 520.66 points.
Total trading turnover on the regulated market of the Sofia bourse rose to 649,455 levs ($388,200/322,060 euro) on Tuesday from 147,011 levs on Monday.
Deals in shares in diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:5DOV] generated the largest turnover on Tuesday, as 173,571 shares changed hands for a total of 263,203 levs.
Doverie United Holding shares fell most among blue chips, closing 4.72% lower at 1.515 levs. Last week, the Sofia bourse operator announced that Doverie United Holding will drop out of the composition of the SOFIX index as of September 25.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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