August 1 (SeeNews) - The four main Bulgarian stock indices closed evenly split on Tuesday, as the benchmark SOFIX extended the previous day's rise by another 0.17% to 688.34 points, bourse data showed.
The SOFIX was buoyed by sole gainer energy and insurance conglomerate Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG], which advanced 4.85% to 1.73 levs.
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The main blue-chip decliner was battery maker Monbat [BUL:MONB], which erased 3.02% to 4.50 levs, after reporting a drop in first-half net profit and revenue.
First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] reversed Monday's gain notched in the build-up to releasing its first-half results, and decreased 1.71% to 2.30 levs with 9,492 shares traded.
The BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, also ticked up 0.17%, to 149.11 points. The rise was driven by Eurohold as well as a 5.00% jump in Sofia Commerce Pawn Brokerage [BUL:SCOM] to 2.94 levs with 6,004 shares traded. In addition, IT services provider Telelink Business Services Group [BUL:TBS] climbed 2.11% to 9.70 levs.
A 4.39% drop in investment firm Eleven Capital [BUL:11C] to 21.80 levs made for an overall decline in the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The BGTR30 lost 0.34% to 770.24 points, additionally constrained by Monbat and Fibank.
Lastly, The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, slipped 0.19% to 191.61 points. The decline resulted from a 0.92% retreat in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund [BUL:BREF] to 2.16 levs with 6,045 units traded.
Total turnover on the main market of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange spiked to some 4.6 million levs ($2.6 million/2.35 million euro) on Tuesday from roughly 2.6 million levs a day earlier, again mostly due to an active trade in bonds.
The stock with the highest turnover was plastic and rubber products manufacturer Formoplast [BUL:FORM], which generated 319,000 levs with 55,000 shares bought and sold. Formoplast closed 3.33% lower at 5.80 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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