Sofia bourse indices decline, Toplivo lifts turnover

The blue-chip SOFIX index shed 0.13% to 606.98 points, negatively affected by a 1.34% decline in the shares of Advance Terrafund to 2.94 levs.

The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, went down 0.19% to 735.83 points, weighed down by Agria's 2.03% decline to 29.0 levs.

Fuel retailer Petrol's [BUL:5PET] drop of 18.70% hurt the wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the BSE and which recorded the biggest slump on Monday, of 0.35% to 141.09 points. Petrol closed at 0.20 levs.

The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, erased 0.10% to 183.20 points, due to a 2.48% decline in the share price of Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] to 2.36 levs in a trading volume of 106,547.

Total turnover on the Sofia bourse's main market increased to about 1.1 million levs ($562,300/562,400 euro) on Monday from 976,000 levs on Friday.

Building materials and fuel retailer Toplivo [BUL:TOPL] was the most liquid stock, finishing the trading session 7.14% higher at 3.0 levs after generating a turnover of 491,727 levs with 163,909 shares bought and sold.

(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)