April 9 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange blue-chip SOFIX index on Tuesday posted its biggest daily decline since March 20, as its major European peers were all taking losses.
The London Stock Exchange FTSE 100 index traded 0.4% lower when the Sofia exchange closed, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange DAX index was 0.7% down, and the Euronext Paris CAC 40 index traded 0.4% lower.
The SOFIX closed 1.15% lower at 576.58 points, as diversified group Holding Varna [BUL:5V2] plunged 5.58% to 37.2 levs.
Drug maker Sopharma [BUL:3JR] and software developer Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SKK] were the other major decliners among blue chips on Tuesday, losing 2.23% and 1.99%, respectively.
The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, fell 0.76% to 115.07 points, hit by a 12.9% drop in the share price of fertilisers producer Neochim [BUL:3NB].
The BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, edged down 0.17% to 502.55 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks real estate investment trusts, slid 0.53% to 117.46 points, as Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:5BU] and Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6] declined 1.54% and 1.04%, respectively.
Total regulated market trading turnover rose to 1.15 million levs ($663,000/588,000 euro) on Tuesday from 669,000 levs on Monday.
Around 90% of the turnover on Tuesday was formed by a single deal for 47,643 shares in real estate investor 235 Holdings [BUL:94G], worth just over 1 million levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)