November 7 (SeeNews) - All indices on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) opened lower on Monday, after the candidate of main opposition Socialists appeared headed to win the presidential elections' first round, ahead of the candidate of governing centre-right GERB party, setting the stage for a tight run-off race on November 13.
With two-thirds of the votes counted, former Air Force commander Rumen Radev won 25.67%, while GERB's candidate, Parliament speaker Tsetska Tsacheva came in second with 22.02% in Sunday's elections, the central election commission said.
BSE's blue-chip SOFIX index fell 0.67% to 526.68 as at 10:48 CET on Monday, recording the largest drop among the bourse indices.
Fibank [BUL:5F4] led the blue chip decliners, falling by 4.98% to 2.708 levs ($1.52/1.38 euro) in early trade.
Industrial group Stara Planina Hold [BUL:5SR] rose by 2.29% to 5.800 levs, gaining the most among the blue-chips.
Stock turnover was 80,945 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)