May 9 (SeeNews) - Most of the share indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE), including the blue-chip SOFIX, ended in negative territory on Monday, as turnover nearly tripled after the shorter trading week, bourse data showed.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market increased to 908,747 levs ($489,255/ 464,635 euro) on Monday from some 371,954 million levs on Thursday, before the bourse shut for Friday's public holiday.
The most traded company was coal-fired power plant operator TPP Bobov Dol [BUL:TBD]. A total of 12,500 shares in the company changed hands at an unchanged price of 20 levs apiece, contributing 250,000 levs to the daily trading turnover.
The blue-chip SOFIX index of the Sofia bourse dropped by 0.24% to 603.95 points, dragged down by a 2.91% decline in the share price of Telelink Business Services Group [BUL:TSB] to 13.35 levs and a 2.03% decrease in the shares of Chimimport [BUL:CHIM] to 0.87 levs.
The BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, edged down 0.14% to 142.67 points, dragged down by a 10.71% tumble in aluminium products manufacturer Alcomet [BUL:ALCM] to 7.50 levs. A total of 10 Alcomet shares were bought and sold.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, added 0.15% to 721.63 points.
Fertiliser producer Neochim [BUL:NEOH] led the gainers among BGTR30 companies, after making up for recent losses by jumping 10% to 55 levs in a trading volume of 862 shares.
Bulgarian Real Estate Fund's [BUL:BREF] loss of 0.93% weighed on the BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts. The index erased 0.13% to 180.29 points.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)