April 11 (SeeNews) - The four main Bulgarian stock indices closed in green territory in the first trading session of the week on Tuesday, with the blue-chip SOFIX adding 0.29% to 612.84 points, bourse data showed.
The gain in SOFIX was supported by a 3.81% climb in First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] to 2.18 levs as well as a 1.88% rise in fertiliser maker Neochim [BUL:NEOH] to 38.00 levs.
The top blue-chip decliner was diversified group Chimimport [BUL:CHIM] which lost 1.63% to 0.726 levs with a slim trading volume of 4,924.
Boosted by a 9.49% surge in Bulgarian River Shipping [BUL:BRP] to 0.865 levs, the broader BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, closed 0.42% higher at 140.76 points. Fibank and investment firm Eleven Capital [BUL:11C] also contributed to the index's advance, with Eleven Capital also being the chief gainer among the constituents of the BGTR30 index.
The BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, went up by 0.42% as well, to 726.07 points. Eleven out of its 30 constituents finished trading in the black, while the top decliner was software developer Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SGH], down 2.33% to 0.63 levs.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, inched up 0.06% to 189.52 points, after Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] closed 0.29% higher to 3.48 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange soared to 3.05 million levs ($1.7 million/1.55 million euro) on Tuesday from 629,534 levs on Thursday, which was the last trading day of the previous week.
The most liquid stock was information and communication provider Investor.Bg [BUL:IBG], which generated about a third of the total turnover from 53,005 shares traded at an average price of 19.40 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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