February 24 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Belgrade Stock Exchange closed mixed on Wednesday, with lender Komercijalna Banka [BEL:KMBN] pacing the blue-chip gainers, bourse data showed.
Komercijalna Banka's shares closed 4.26% higher at 1.199 dinars on Wednesday.
Trading in the shares of Komercijalna Banka also generated the highest turnover on the Belgrade bourse on Wednesday - of 10 million dinars ($103,300/85,100 euro).
Earlier this month Slovenian lender NLB [LJE:NLBR] said it plans to launch a buyout bid for the shares it does not yet own in Serbian peer Komercijalna Banka. NLB intends to acquire 2,820,270 ordinary shares in Komercijalna Banka, or 16.77% of total issued amount, and all of the 373,510 preferential shares of the Serbian lender.
The BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade Stock Exchange, ended the session 0.69% lower at 752.82 points.
The broader BELEXline, a free-float market capitalisation weighted index, edged up 0.21% to 1,578.89.
The bourse's total turnover rose to 17.9 million dinars on Wednesday, from 4.9 million dinars on Tuesday, as 80 transactions were carried out.
Trading on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) of the stock exchange generated a turnover of 3 million dinars.
(1 euro = 117.424 dinars)
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