April 4 (SeeNews) - All five indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) retreated on Thursday, with the blue-chip SOFIX sinking 1.21% to 798.58 points, bourse data showed.
The benchmark index was held back by Central Cooperative Bank [BUL:CCB], which fell 3.27% to 1.48 levs, and the Bulgarian Stock Exchange [BUL:BSE], which lost 2.61% to 14.90 levs.
The two companies further pressed the BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The biggest decliner in the BGBX40 was fuel retailer Petrol [BUL:PET], slumping 9.91% to 1.00 lev, while the company that shed the most in the BGTR30 was Sopharma Buildings REIT [BUL:SFB], which dropped by 5.06% to 15.00 levs.
Overall, the BGBX40 index slid 1.08% to 163.22 points, while the BGTR30 dipped 1.02% to 809.34 points.
Sopharma Buildings was also the biggest loser in the BGREIT. The index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, closed 0.43% lower at 190.39 points.
The BEAMX index, which tracks the ten most highly capitalised growth companies, posted the steepest decline of the day, at 2.34% to 94.44 points. It was mostly dragged down by financial services company ITF Group [BUL:ITF], which erased 7.41% to 5.00 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse plunged to some 4.84 million levs ($2.67 million/2.47 million euro) on Thursday from 10.55 million levs a day earlier.
The day's top stock by turnover was pharmaceuticals producer Sopharma [BUL:SFA], which generated 503,958 levs with 83,714 shares changing hands. The company ended the trading session 2.59% lower at 6.02 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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