August 23 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) indices closed evenly divided between red and green territory on Tuesday, with the blue-chip SOFIX gaining the most on the back of a 2.86% rise in the shares of energy and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG].
The SOFIX index rose 0.41% to 613.28 points, as Eurohold closed at 2.16 levs in a trading volume of 590,390 shares.
Eurohold was thus the most liquid stock on the BSE on Tuesday, some 80% of the main market turnover, or 1.27 million levs ($647,570/649,340 euro).
The total turnover on the BSE's main market surged to 1.57 million levs from only 315,423 levs on Monday.
Among other rising blue-chips was IoT maker Allterco [BUL:A4L], which gained 1.60% to 19.00 levs with 2,327 shares traded.
Eurohold's positive performance, coupled with a 3.31% climb in road construction contractor Trace Group Hold [BUL:T57] to 3.74 levs enabled the BGBX40 index to also finish in the black. The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, added 0.35% to 142.26 points.
The BGTR30 index, under which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, inched down 0.01% to 738.80 points, on the back of a 1.95% decline in Agria Group Hold [BUL:AGH] to 30.10 levs and a 1.94% drop in Elana AgroCredit [BUL:EAC] to 1.01 levs.
Advance TerraFund REIT [BUL:ATER] retreated 1.01% to 2.95 levs, dragging down the BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts and which closed 0.03% lower at 183.32 points on Tuesday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)