November 9 (SeeNews) - The blue-chip SOFIX index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) went down 0.44% to 598.77 points on Tuesday, dragged down by a 5.92% decline in the shares of First Investment Bank (Fibank) [BUL:FIB], bourse data showed.
As many as 44,432 shares in Fibank traded at an average price of 1.6173 levs on Tuesday.
On the BEAM market, created with the purpose of allowing small and medium-sized enterprises to seek listing under simplified procedures as compared to the regulated market, real estate investment company Infinity Capital [BUL:INF] made its debut on Tuesday.
By the end of the trading session, a total of 13,880 shares in Infinity Capital had traded at an average price of 1.6776 levs, 4.86% lower compared to the opening price.
Fibank's loss impacted negatively the BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse and the BGTR30 index in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The BGBX40 lost 0.33% to 137.30 points, while the BGTR30 dropped 0.62% to 660.38 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, closed 0.18% higher at 164.91 points due to a 13.75% rise in the shares of Intercapital Property Development REIT [BUL:ICPD].
Total turnover on the Sofia bourse's main market jumped to nearly 4.1 million levs ($2.4 million/2.1 million euro) on Tuesday from 1 million levs on Monday.
The most traded company on Tuesday was Toplofikatsia-Ruse [BUL:TPLR], the heating utility serving the city of Ruse. A total of 541,000 shares in the company changed hands 1.88% lower at an average price of 3.1400 levs, contributing 1.7 million levs to the BSE's turnover for the day.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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