December 3 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) lost ground on Thursday, after rising for three straight days, with telecommunication services provider Optima Telekom [ZSE:OPTE] leading the blue-chip losers, bourse data showed.
Optima's shares fell 3.36% to a closing price of 5.18 kuna. It generated the largest single turnover among the blue chips for the day - of 456,000 kuna, ZSE data showed.
Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson Nikola Tesla [ZSE:ERNT] was the sole blue-chip gainer, rising 1.33% to 1,520 kuna.
Among the remaining nine blue-chip companies, six fell on Thursday, one closed flat and two did not trade.
ZSE's total trading turnover plummeted to 3.7 million kuna ($597,000/490,500 euro) on Thursday from 15.4 million kuna on Wednesday.
The bourse's 25-share benchmark CROBEX index fell 0.37% to 1,743.02 after adding 2% on Wednesday.
The narrower of the ZSE's two blue-chip indices, the CROBEX10, which tracks the leading companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, lost 0.44% to 1,083.98 on Thursday after rising 1.84% on Wednesday.
(1 euro = 7.54186 kuna)