March 14 (SeeNews) - All indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) started the week in positive territory, with the blue-chip SOFIX index rising the most - by 1.80% to 589.73 points, bourse data showed on Monday.
Battery manufacturer Monbat [BUL:MONB] paced the blue-chip gainers, its shares adding 5.45%. The company closed at 5.80 levs as 4,214 of its shares changed hands.
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A 27.71% jump in diversified group Zarneni Hrani Bulgaria [BUL:ZHBG], to 0.2120 levs, helped the BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, close 1.56% higher at 137.73 points.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, went up by 1.31% to 690.57 points, mostly backed by CEZ Distribution Bulgaria [BUL:CEZD] whose shares increased by 5.84% to 290 levs.
The BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, advanced by 0.79% to 169.18 points, mostly due to a 2.10% rise in CCB Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:CCBR], to 48.60 levs.
Turnover on the BSE's main market rose to 1.6 million levs ($898,200/818,100 euro) from 1.4 million levs on Friday.
The most traded company on Monday was Agria Group Holding [BUL:AGH]. As many as 19,445 shares in the firm traded 8.90% higher, closing at a price of 19.9795 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)