September 1 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian share indices ended lower on Tuesday, mostly extending their losses in light trade, bourse data showed.
The SOFIX, which comprises the 20 most liquid shares trading on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE), lost 1.94% to 445.21 points, after a 1.58% drop on Monday. The broader BG40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the bourse, ended 1.97% lower at 123.19 points after falling 2.0% a day ago.
On Tuesday, fallers outnumbered gainer 61 by 21 and 12 stocks closed unchanged.
Turnover, excluding block and other pre-agreed deals, dropped to 1.0 million levs ($732,000/512,000 euro) from 2.8 million levs a day earlier.
Hydraulic equipment maker M+S Hydraulic and lender Corporate Commercial Bank were the only SOFIX components to gain ground, adding 2.0% to 4.59 levs and 0.57% to 53 levs, respectively, in small volumes. Fertilisers producer Neochim closed flat at 35 levs as 170 company stocks changed hands, while the rest of the SOFIX components active on Tuesday traded down.
Power tools manufacturer Sparky Eltos led the SOFIX decliners, falling 5.86% to 2.25 levs in a volume of 1,308 stocks.
The BG-REIT index, tracking the performance of real estate investment trusts, declined 0.95% to 44.01 points. The bourse's BG TotalReturn30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, dropped 2.72% to 329.48 points.
On Monday, the BG-REIT added 0.47% while the BG TotalReturn30 lost 1.53%.
The Dnevnik 20 index, calculated by local business daily Dnevnik from the share prices of the 20 leading companies in terms of liquidity and market capitalisation, skidded 2.04% to 64.93 points.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bulgarian levs)