August 16 (SeeNews) - The share indices on the Belgrade Stock Exchange gained ground on Friday after closing lower in the previous two sessions, while trading in Treasury bonds boosted the turnover for the day, bourse data showed.
Aerodrom Nikola Tesla [BEL:AERO] led the blue-chip gainers on Friday, closing 0.12% higher at 845 dinars in a volume of 884 shares.
It was followed by blue-chip industrial gases producer Messer Tehnogas [BEL:TGAS], which added 0.01% to close at 12,001 dinars, generating the highest daily turnover of 1.69 million dinars.
The shares of all other blue-chip companies closed unchanged or did not trade on Friday.
The BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade Stock Exchange, edged up 0.02% to 744.72 points, after dropping 0.10% on Thursday.
The broader BELEXline, a free-float market capitalisation weighted index, advanced 0.12% to 1,570.68 on Friday, after shedding 0.04% in the previous trading session.
The total turnover on the Belgrade bourse soared to 121 million dinars ($1,14 million/1.03 million euro) on Friday, from Thursday's 6.4 million dinars, as trading in Treasury bonds contributed 116.6 million of the total. There was no trading in T-bonds on Thursday.
Trading on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) of the exchange generated a turnover of 219,300 dinars, down from 1.2 million dinars on Thursday.
(1 euro = 117.767 dinars)