June 5 (SeeNews) - All four main indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed in green territory on Monday, with the blue-chip SOFIX surging by 1.48% to 683.65 points, bourse data showed.
Leading the blue-chip gainers, energy and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG] leapt 5.71% to 1.85 levs, followed by battery manufacturer Monbat [BUL:MONB], which added 2.33% to 4.40 levs.
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Eurohold and Monbat also pushed up the BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. Both indices were further lifted by a 5.26% jump at diversified group Stara Planina Hold [BUL:SPH] to 10.00 levs.
Overall, the BGBX40 climbed 1.13% to 150.72 points, while the BGTR30 closed 0.50% higher at 756.88 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, went up 0.13% to 190.43 points. Its growth was driven by Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER], which rose by 0.61% to 3.30 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse soared to 29.7 million levs ($16.3 million/15.2 million euro) on Monday from 348,426 levs on Friday.
The majority of the turnover, or 27.2 million levs, was generated by services provider Telelink Business Services (TBS) Group [BUL:TBS]. The stock closed 1.62% higher at 9.40 levs, with some 2.9 million shares traded.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)