July 18 (SeeNews) - All Bulgarian Stock Exchange BSE) indices closed higher on Monday, backed by a rise in the share price of First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:5F4] and hotel operator Albena [BUL:ALB].
The blue-chip SOFIX index edged up 0.08% to 607.38 points, backed by gains in Fibank and diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH].
Fibank rose 3.72% to 1.95 levs with 1,835 shares traded, while Doverie added 1.16% to 6.96 levs.
The wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the stock exchange in Sofia, also advanced 0.08%, to 141.49 points, on the gain in Fibank and a 2.07% rise in Albena to 29.60 levs.
Fibank and Albena also contributed to the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, closing in green territory on Monday. The BGTR30 rose 0.18% to 735.70 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks real estate investment trusts, gained 0.20% to 188.53 points, backed by a 0.93% climb in Advance Terrafund [BUL:ATER] to 3.10 levs.
Total turnover on the main market on Monday came to just 800,585 levs ($417,085/409,332 euro), further slipping from 802,418 levs on Friday.
The most traded stock was Synthetica [BUL:SYN], which generated 220,000 levs as 4,400 of its shares were traded at an average price of 50.00 levs. Synthetica was followed by Eurohold [BUL:EUBG], of which 94,000 shares chnaged hands in a block trade. Eurohold closed 0.93% lower at 2.12 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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