It has happened again! The SOFIX blue-chip index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange pierced through another low in less than a week. The index erased 2.79% of its value today, closing at 309.7 points.

The broader BG40 dropped by under 100 points, after slipping by 1.83%, to 97.37 points. The index of the most liwuid companies on SBE closed under 100 points in the second half of November. BG TR30 shed 1.37%, to 231.92 points, on the day. BG REIT managed to end the day in positive territory, advancing by 1.67%, to 46.32 points.

BSE's overall turnover came to 7.5 mln leva. A total of 3,257,795 shares in Elena Agricultural Land Opportunity Fund changed hands in a single transaction today at a price of 0.89 lea apiece. A total of 93 issues were traded on the day, with 22 of the companies posting stock price gains. The value of the over-the-counter deals exceeded 124,000 leva as at 2.30 p.m.

The stocks of First Investment Bank (FIBank) and Chimimport depreciated by 9.87% and 6.84%, to 1.43 leva per share and 1.77 leva per share, respectively. The turnover on each of the two positions exceeded 100,000 shares on the day.

The news for most banking stocks was also negative. Central Cooperative Bank skidded 4.59 lower, to 0.94 leva per share. The market capitalization of Bulgarian-American Credit Bank declined by 3.06%, to 9.5 leva per share. Corporate Commercial Bank's stock price ended the day unchanged at 65 leva per share. The turnover on the position came to 18,067 shares.

Other decliners on the day included Monbat (-0.52%, to 4.6 leva), Orgachim (-3.12%, to 77.02 leva), Industrial Holding Bulgaria (-2.4%, to 1.22 leva per share) and Stara Planina Hold (-2.65%, to 1.25 leva per share).

Eurohold Bulgaria managed to pare its earlier losses to close the day 0.64% down at 1.08 leva per share. Euroins advanced by 2.13%, to 2.35 leva per share.

A total of 51,900 shares inKremikovtzi traded hands on the day. The stock of the company depreciated by 28.27%, to 0.79 leva per share. The two candidate buyers for the company have received an invitation for a final meeting with economy and energy minister Petar Dimitrov and an operator of the steel mill will be selected today, it emerged earlier.