August 20 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian Stock Exchange indices saw little change on Tuesday as trading turnover sunk in the wake of the forthcoming earnings season.
Total daily regulated market trading turnover plunged to just 104,000 levs ($59,000/53,000 euro) on Tuesday from some 3.24 million levs on Monday. However, nearly 93% of the turnover on Monday was formed by a few deals in two companies - 235 Holdings [BUL:94G] and Green Town Projects [BUL:GT2].
BSE-listed companies are due to publish their consolidated first-half financial statements by the end of next week, while the stock exchange operator is expected to announce the results of the semi-annual review of the base of its four main indices in early September.
The blue-chip SOFIX index, which has 15 members, edged up 0.06% to 575.65 points on Tuesday, backed by a 2.60% rise in the share price of Central Cooperative Bank (CCB) [BUL:4CF]. The trading session saw a single deal in CCB shares, worth 3,160 levs.
CCB also led gainers among the wider BGBX40 index and the equally-weighted BGTR30 index.
The BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the stock exchange in Sofia, dipped 0.02% to 113.85 points, while the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, increased by a slim 0.06% to 506.83 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks real estate investment trusts, closed the session 0.10% higher at 126.63 points.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)