The SOFIX index, which comprises the 20 most liquid shares trading on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE), rose 0.17% to 422.80 points after gaining 2.3% in the previous trading session.
The BG40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the bourse, gained 0.02% to 118.08 points after an increase of 1.87% a day earlier.
Total turnover, excluding block and other pre-agreed deals, rose to 3.35 million levs ($2.44 million/1.71 million euro) from 2.1 million levs on Monday.
On Tuesday, 43 shares gained ground, 27 fell, and 16 ended unchanged.
Eighteen out of the 20 SOFIX components were traded on Tuesday. Ten of them closed higher and the rest ended in the red.
The most liquid blue chip was First Investment Bank which lost 0.79% to 2.26 levs in a volume of 73,515 stocks.
The BG-REIT index, which tracks the performance of real estate investment trusts, closed 0.41% lower at 46.48 points. The BG TotalReturn30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, gained 0.21% to 328.83.
On Monday, the BG-REIT ended 1.72% up and the BG TotalReturn30 gained 2.24%.
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, rose 0.7% to 61.74 points after gaining 4.04% on Monday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgrian levs)