September 5 (SeeNews) - The four main indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) all remained in red territory for the second day running, with the biggest loss recorded by the benchmark SOFIX index, of 0.84% to 745.93 points, bourse data showed on Tuesday.
The SOFIX retracted mainly on the 7.02% slump in IoT products maker Shelly Group [BUL:SLYG] to 42.40 levs in a trading volume of 13,556.
Furthermore, First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] lost 5.17% to 2.20 levs, followed by Sopharma Trading [BUL:SFT], which erased 2.40% to 6.10 levs.
The biggest gainer in the SOFIX was drug maker Sopharma [BUL:SFA], with a 5.86% jump to 6.14 levs and 18,078 units traded.
Shelly Group and Fibank also dragged down the BGBX40, 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. The BGTR30 ended 0.72% lower at 784.88 points, additionally constrained by a 3.70% decline in investment firm Eleven Capital [BUL:11C] to 20.80 levs.
For its part, the BGBX40 further lost ground on account of a 6.42% slump in cables and wires maker Emka [BUL:EMKA] to 2.04 levs. The index slipped 0.59% to 156.99 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, marked the lowest loss of the day, of 0.13% to 193.86 points. A 0.88% decrease in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] to 2.26 levs was tempered by a 0.29% climb in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 3.40 levs, with 12,285 shares traded.
The highest turnover generated by a single stock on Tuesday amounted to some 3.2 million levs ($1.75 million/1.6 million euro) and was generated by information and communications company Investor.Bg [BUL:IBG] after 154,750 shares were bought and sold in 16 trades. The stock closed flat at 20.60 levs.
Overall turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse surged to over 8.85 million levs on Tuesday from 2.29 million levs on Monday.
The BSE will be closed for trading on Wednesday, September 6, which is a public holiday in Bulgaria.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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