September 27 (SeeNews) - Three of the four main share indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) made gains on Tuesday, with only the blue-chip SOFIX failing to squeeze into green territory, instead inching down 0.02% to 591.63 points, bourse data showed.
The SOFIX's weak performance came on the back of a 3.29% loss in Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH] to 7.06 levs and a 2.56% slip in Central Cooperative Bank [BUL:CCB] to 1.52 levs in a trading volume of 33,600.
First Investment Bank [BUL:FIB], or Fibank, was the main blue-chip gainer, rising 5.06% to 1.87 levs with 1,035 shares traded.
The BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, advanced 0.12% to 137.66 points on the back of a 9.68% jump in Zarneni Hrani Bulgaria [BUL:ZHBG] to 0.17 levs with 2,879 shares traded and a 6.59% climb in Eleven Capital [BUL:11C] to 19.40 levs.
Fibank and Eleven Capital also contributed to a 0.42% increase to 717.68 points in the BGTR30 index, under which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, went up 0.30% to 179.10 points, thanks to a 0.94% rise in Balkan and Sea Properties REIT [BUL:BSP] to 21.40 levs. Bulgarian Real Estate Fund [BUL:BREF] also made a gain, of 0.93% to 2.16 levs with 12,056 shares traded. Balkan and Sea Properties announced on Tuesday that it will change the collateral of a 40 million lev ($19.7 million/20.5 million euro) bond issue.
Tchaikapharma High Quality Medicines [BUL:THQM] was the most liquid stock on the day, with as many as 131,000 shares traded in a block deal, generating just over 2 million levs or nearly half of the day's turnover.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market surged to 4.16 million levs on Tuesday from some 1.55 million levs on Monday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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