September 20 (SeeNews) - The blue-chip SOFIX index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) declined 0.49% to 553.69 points on Monday, hurt by a 6.11% decrease in the share price of battery manufacturer Monbat [BUL:MONB] and a 2.84% drop in the shares of diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH].
A total of 5,286 shares in Monbat traded at an average price of 6.3720 levs on Monday, while 11,753 shares in Doverie United Holding changed hands at an average price of 6.2285 levs, bourse data showed.
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Earlier on Monday, Doverie United Holding said that the BSE has decided to admit to trading its issue of 2,763,756 new ordinary shares. The shares will start trading on the stock exchange in Sofia on September 23, the holding company said.
Monbat's loss also weighed on 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 fell by 0.25% to 129.08 points, while the BGTR30 went down 0.47% to 632.83 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, closed 0.32% higher at 161.62 points, mostly due to a 2.74% gain in the shares of Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF].
Total turnover on the BSE's main market fell to about 2.1 million levs ($1.3 million/1.1 million euro) on Monday from 3.4 million levs on Friday.
The most traded company for a second straight day on Monday was drug maker Sopharma [BUL:SFA]. A total of 190,970 shares in the company changed hands flat at an average price of 3.7000 levs, contributing some 706,600 levs to the daily turnover.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)