Following the sell-offs on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) in January and the decline of the indexes to new lows, there were attempts for stock price increases this week.

The indexes ended today's session mixed. Advancers included BG40 (+0.45%, to 89.6 points) and BG TR30 (+0.13%, to 196.17 points). Decliners were SOFIX (-0.92%, to 272.52 points) and BG REIT (-0.41%, to 41.44 points).

BSE's overall turnover came to 4.33 mln leva, while the value of the over-the-counter deals amounted 11.82 mln leva as at 3:15 p.m. A total of 83 issues were traded on the day with 36 of the stocks posting gains.

SOFIX lost 4.98% of its value over the week, BG40 slipped by 1.64%, BG REIT gained 2.22%, while BG TR30 shed 2.98%.

A total of 11 of the companies included in the calculation of BG40 posted average stock price gains on a weekly basis.

Stara Planina Hold advanced by 10.91%, to 1.22 leva per share. The company launched its third share buy-back procedure on Tuesday. The shares will be repurchased at prices between 1.1 and 1.25 leva per share.

The average stock price of Oil & Gas Exploration & Production went up by 8.19% over the week, to 3.04 leva.

Euroins ended the week 6.94% up at 1.85 leva per share.

Billboard's stock depreciated by 35.45 to 1.42 leva per share over the week. The company booked 1.824 mln leva profit for 2008, compared to 4.677 mln leva profit posted for 2007.

Holding Roads slumped by 20.41%, to an average of 1.56 leva per share. Another decliner this week was Bulgarian Holding Company whose shares depreciated by 18.11%, to 2.17 leva.

See the table for more details on the performance of BG40's stocks this week:

CompanyJan 30, 2009Feb 6, 2009Change %5SR/Stara Planina Hold1,11,2210,914O1/Oil & Gas Exploration & Production2,813,048,195IC/Euroins1,731,856,945F4/FIBank1,091,144,59SL9/Sparky Eltos1,321,384,556C9/KTB71,473,783,335ORG/Orgachim67,7469,582,724EC/Elana REIT 0,60,611,676S7/Synergon Holding1,391,411,445ODE/Odessos Ship Repair Yard100,1101,311,215PET/Petrol8,658,70,585BN/BACB8,58,506А9/Favorit Hold4,74,706A6/Advance Terrafund11052E/Elhim Iskra1,21,204BJ/Bulgarska Rosa-Sevtopolis0,570,56-1,753NB/Neochim29,3328,73-2,055ALB/Albena IH3,263,19-2,154EH/Eurohold Bulgaria0,840,82-2,384F6/Fazerles25,1724,56-2,424ID/IH Bulgaria1,181,15-2,544CF/CCB0,850,82-3,53T43/Zarneni Hrani Bulgaria0,530,51-3,776K1/Kaolin2,352,22-5,535MB/Monbat4,44,15-5,68E4A/Enemona7,066,65-5,816C4/Chimimport1,371,29-5,844I8/Industrial Capital Holding1,651,54-6,675DOV/Doverie United Holding3,733,45-7,513TV/Toplivo4,193,86-7,883JR/Sopharma2,11,93-8,15OTZ/Lead & Zinc Complex6,275,76-8,1351P/Polimeri1,341,17-12,69T57/Trace Group Hold28,6925,03-12,76T24/TK Hold2,362,05-13,145MY /Moststroy2,031,69-16,755BA/Bulgarian Holding Company2,652,17-18,116H2/Holding Roads1,961,56-20,415BP/Billboard2,21,42-35,456AR/Aroman/an/an/aBG4091,0989,6-1,64

Data: BSE