March 7 (SeeNews) - Three of the four main indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) finished in red territory on Tuesday, with the blue-chip SOFIX erasing 0.32% to 627.17 points, bourse data showed.
The SOFIX was dragged down by First Investment Bank [BUL:FIB], or Fibank, which fell 3.33% to 2.32 levs, and energy and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG], which slipped 2.96% to 1.64 levs.
Fibank and Eurohold Bulgaria weighed also on the BGBX40 index, alongside real estate investment trust (REIT) FairPlay Properties [BUL:FPP], which tumbled 9.64% to 0.75 levs. The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, decreased by 0.18% to 142.78 points.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, went down by 0.25% to 736.14 points on the losses at Fibank and Eurohold Bulgaria, additionally impeded by a 2.44% drop in IT services provider Telelink Business Services (TBS) Group [BUL:TBS] to 10.00 levs.
In contrast, the BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, edged up by 0.06% to 187.62 points as Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] climbed 0.31% to 3.28 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange sank to 361,913 levs ($196,997/185,042 euro) on Tuesday from 1.82 million levs on Monday.
Diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH] was the day's most traded stock, generating a turnover of 180,856 levs with 22,607 shares traded. It closed 0.25% higher at 8.00 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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