Following yesterday's positive start to the week the indexes of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) posted declines today.

The biggest decliners was SOFIX (-1.11%, to 433.13 points), followed by BG TR30 (-0.91%, to 333.18 points) and BG 40 (-0.89%, to 116.66 points). BG REIT was the only gainer on the day advancing by 0.15%, to 47.59 points.

BSE's overall turnover came to 1.11 mln leva. A total of 74 issues were traded on the day with 27 of the stocks posting price gains.

EMKA's stock appreciated by 5.03% to end the day at 2.82 leva per share. A total of 14,423 shares in the company were traded on the day. EMKA's stock has appreciated by more than 130% in the last year.

Stara Planina Hold's stock price went up by 2.45% to 2.01 leva. Industrial Holding Bulgaria gained 3.65% to 2.695 leva. M+S Hydraulic advanced by 3.70% to 5.24 leva per share.

The traded volume on the position of Central Cooperative Bank exceeded 66,000 shares. The stock depreciated by 3.11%. FIBank's stock price remained unchanged at 2.48 leva per share. The traded volume amounted to nearly 113,000 shares.

Decliners on the day included KTB (-2.35%, to 58.10 leva) and BACB (-4.06%, to 17.25 leva).

A total of 570,561 shares in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund traded hands today. The stock lost 1.35% of its value closing at 0.375 leva per share.