Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) and Black Sea Investment REIT will start dividend payment as of today (August 11).

BSE will pay its shareholders 0.4025 leva gross dividend per share, while the REIT will distribute 0.3675 leva dividend per share. Trade in the rights issued as part of the capital raise operation of PRC REIT will also kick off today.

The REIT plans to hike its capital from 650,000 leva to 5.85 mln leva and will offer a total of 65,000 rights. Each right entitles the subscription of 8 new shares. The total number of the new shares stands at 520,000. Each share will have 10 leva par and issue value.

The rights of the REIT will be traded in the period August 11-26 under the PRQA stock symbol 26. The unused rights will be auctioned off on September 2.

The trade in the rights issued in the capital increase of Advance Terrafund REIT will start on Thursday. The REIT will raise its capital from 44.056 mln leva to 110.14 mln leva through the issuing of 66.084 mln new shares with 1.90 leva issue value each.

The rights and the new shares were issued at a ratio of 1:1.5.

The long-awaited start of short selling and margin trade will also be given on Thursday. The auction for the unused rights issued as part of the capital raise operation of Balkantourist Elite will take place on the same day.

The company plans to hike its capital from 10.179 mln leva to 45.8 mln leva through the issuing 35.625 mln new shares with 1 leva par value each.

M+S Hydraulic will pay dividend until August 15 (Friday). The company will distribute 0.0947 leva dividend per share.

BSE's BG40 index advanced by 2.08% to 254.88 points last week, while the SOFIX blue-chip index slipped by 0.4% to 1,008.55 points. The overall weekly trading turnover amounted to 20.7 mln leva.