May 3 (SeeNews) - All indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed in the red on on Tuesday, the first trading session of the week, with the blue-chip SOFIX index declining 2.53% to 603.39 points, bourse data showed.
Diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH] weighed down on the SOFIX, with a 10.3% drop to 6.44 levs in a trading volume of 21,729 shares.
The BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, finished Tuesday's session 1.97% lower at 142.61 points. The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, retreated by 1.59% to 719.48 points.
Fertiliser producer Neochim [BUL:NEOH] dragged down both indices, after it tumbled 10.46% to 48.80 levs with 1,502 company shares having changed hands.
The BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, inched down 0.12% on Tuesday to 180.19 points, chiefly due to a 0.92% decline in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] to 2.16 levs.
Total turnover on the Sofia bourse's main market increased slightly to 781,220 levs ($421,010/399,431 euro) from 660,200 levs on Friday.
The BSE was closed for trading on Monday due to the Labour Day public holiday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)