The average daily turnover on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange was 98.712 million leva last week compared to 46.885 million leva in the period 14-18 May, Profit.bg statistics showed.

Although last week had only three working days, shares worth 296.136 million leva were traded versus 234.426 mln leva in the previous reporting period.

A total of 5,180 transactions (1,727 transactions a day) were made last week.

The high turnover registered last week is due to the transactions involving shares of the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company AD. 5% of the telecom worth 73.355 mln leva were transacted on a block segment Monday, while in a single transaction Tuesday 5.14% of the company’s capital changed hands for 167.025 mln leva.

SOFIX was up 1.77% last week to 1,320.02 points, while BG40 gained 1.30% to 279.47 points.