January 10 (SeeNews) - The main share indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) recorded a second straight winning session on Tuesday, on the back of a 5.88% jump in First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] and a 4.88% rise in IoT products maker Allterco [BUL:A4L], bourse data showed.
The two stocks helped push the blue-chip SOFIX index 1.64% to 617.38 points as trading started to pick up in the new year.
Fibank was also the most traded stock on the day, generating turnover of 103,833 levs with 48,071 shares traded at an average price of 2.18 levs.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market picked up to 939,626 levs ($515,683/480,423 euro) on Tuesday from 721,998 levs on Monday.
The biggest blue-chip loser was fertiliser maker Neochim [BUL:NEOH], which registered a 1.95% drop to 40.20 levs after freezing ammonia production due to a technical issue.
The gains in Fibank and Allterco, along with a 3.57% advance in Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH] to 8.12 levs, contributed to a strong performance also in the the BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and in the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight.
The BGBX40 closed 0.78% higher at 141.32 points while the BGTR30 rose 0.68% to 740.20 points.
Lastly, the BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, finished with a climb of 0.83% to 186.94 points, chiefly as a result of the 3.01% jump in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 3.42 levs with 17,630 shares bought and sold.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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