Alfa plam leads blue-chip gainers' list in Belgrade, share indices decline

Alfa plam won 1.98% and closed at 36,000 dinars. A total of 20 shares in the company changed hands on Tuesday, generating a turnover of 720,000 dinars.

Industrial gases maker Messer Tehnogas [BEL:TGAS] generated the highest turnover among the blue chips, of 2.8 million dinars, as 221 of its shares were traded in five deals. The company won 0.07% and closed at 12,499 dinars.

The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, decreased 0.41% to 728.86 points on Tuesday. On Monday, the index rose 0.24%.

The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, went down 0.21% on Tuesday and closed at 1,627.22 points, after increasing 0.13% on Monday.

Civil engineering group Energoprojekt [BEL:ENHL] paced the blue-chip decliners on Tuesday, as its share price fell by 3.15% to 1,201 dinars. A total of 140 shares in the company changed hands, generating a turnover of 168,140 dinars.

The total stock trading turnover on the bourse declined to 5.4 million dinars ($54,426/45,409 euro) on Tuesday, from 7.6 million dinars on Monday, as 426 share transactions were carried out. Trading on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) of the bourse came in at 141,200 dinars.

Trading in Treasury bonds generated 243.3 million dinars of the bourse's total turnover of 248.9 million dinars. A total of 2,000 bonds of the euro-denominated RSO17152 issue, bearing a coupon of 2% and maturing on March 24, 2020, changed hands.

(1 euro = 119.050 dinars)