Total turnover on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange reached 188.445 mln leva in April, the monthly bulletin of the institution showed. Turnover in March stood at 333.882 mln leva, while turnover in April last year was 279.591 leva.

BSE-Sofia registered its record turnover in December 2006, when shares worth 704.597 mln leva changed hands.

In the 20 sessions in April a total of 22,471 transactions were made or an average of 1,124 a session versus 1,359 transactions daily in the 22 trading sessions in March.

With a total of 1,368 transactions in April Chimimport was the company with the highest liquidity on BSE for the third month in a row, followed by Sinergon Holding and Monbat with 965 and 932 transactions respectively.

Doverie United Holding and Industrial Capital Holding also made it in the top 5 public companies in terms of liquidity with 845 and 844 transactions respectively.