April 29 (SeeNews) - Four of the five indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed in red territory on Monday, with the blue-chip SOFIX shedding 0.53% to 814.25 points, bourse data showed.
The benchmark index was hit by a 5.84% drop in First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] to 2.90 levs and a 2.68% fall in software developer Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SGH] to 0.725 levs.
The two companies also dragged down the BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. Both indices were further held back by farming group Agria Group Holding [BUL:AGH], which lost 2.56% to 19.00 levs.
Overall, the BGBX40 index declined by 0.40% to 165.30 points, whereas the BGTR30 erased 0.60% to 817.15 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, went down 0.33% to 189.84 points. It was mostly impacted by a 1.97% tumble in Sopharma Buildings REIT [BUL:SFB] to 14.90 levs.
Meanwhile, the BEAMX, which tracks the ten most highly capitalised growth companies, added 0.72% to 97.66 points on the back of a 3.92% climb in investment firm HR Capital [BUL:HRC] to 2.12 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse slid to 404,491 levs ($221,579/206,812 euro) on Monday from 834,549 levs on Friday.
IoT products maker Shelly Group [BUL:SLYG] generated the day's highest turnover, at 209,304 levs, after 3,078 shares traded. The company closed flat at 68.00 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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