March 16 (SeeNews) - Belgrade airport operator Aerodrom Nikola Tesla [BEL:AERO] generated nearly one-third of the total stock turnover on the Belgrade bourse on Thursday, as share indices reached all-time highs, stock exchange data showed.
The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, added 0.69% to a record high of 746.97 points on Thursday. The previous record was set on April 16, 2015, when BELEX15 closed at 746.63. On Wednesday, the index won 0.35% to 741.88.
The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, grew by 0.30% and closed Thursday's session marking its all-time peak of 1,621.21. The index increased 0.33% to 1,616.31 on Wednesday.
Aerodrom Nikola Tesla generated a stock turnover of 7.1 million dinars on the Belgrade stock market on Thursday. The company was also the most traded on the bourse, as a total of 5,216 of its shares changed hands in 147 transactions. Aerodrom Nikola Tesla won 1.27% and closed at 1,356 dinars.
Lender Komercijalna banka [BEL:KMBN] led the blue-chip gainers' list on Thursday, after adding 3.07% to 1,814 dinars. The company generated a stock turnover of 127,000 dinars as 70 of its shares changed hands.
Industrial gases maker Messer Tehnogas [BEL:TGAS] paced the blue-chip decliners in Belgrade on Thursday. Its shares fell 2.46% and closed at 13,500 dinars. Only ten shares in the company changed hands, generating a trading turnover of 135,000 dinars.
The total stock trading turnover on the bourse fell to 18 million dinars ($155,812/145,132 euro) on Thursday from 13.6 million dinars on Wednesday, as a total of 375 transactions were carried out. Trading on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) of the bourse contributed 3.7 million dinars to the total turnover of the Belgrade Stock Exchange on Thursday.
Trading in Treasury bonds contributed 5.9 million dinars to Thursday's total trading turnover of 24 million dinars on the bourse. A total of 47 bonds of the euro-denominated RSO16136 issue changed hands in a single transaction on Thursday. The bonds bear a coupon of 1.50% and mature on June 13, 2018.
(1 euro = 123.952 dinars)