March 11 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) fell on Wednesday, as Arena Hospitality Group [ZSE:ARNT] led the blue-chip losers for a second straight trading day, ZSE data showed.
Arena's shares fell by 12.08% to 262 kuna on Wednesday.
The ZSE said earlier on Wednesday that Arena Hospitality Group will be excluded from the blue-chip index CROBEX10, as of March 23.
Diversified holding company Djuro Djakovic [ZSE:DDJH] paced the blue-chip gainers, as its share price rose 6.9% to 3.10 kuna.
Tourism company Valamar Riviera [ZSE:RIVP] recorded the highest turnover among the blue chips on Wednesday, for a fourth straight trading day, of 8.3 million kuna. Its shares lost 7.69% to 24 kuna.
The company said on Monday it plans to distribute a dividend of 1.20 kuna per share in 2020, up 0.20 kuna on last year's dividend payout.
Fast-moving consumer goods distributor Atlantic Grupa [ZSE:ATGR] added 6 million kuna to ZSE's total trading turnover on Wednesday, including a block transaction of 2.2 million kuna. The company's shares shed 1.8% to 1,090 kuna.
On Wednesday, ZSE's total trading turnover decreased to 45.1 million kuna ($6.7 million/6.0 million euro) from 47.1 million kuna on Tuesday.
The ZSE's 25-share benchmark CROBEX index fell 4.45% to 1,591.42 after rising 0.90% on Tuesday.
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, dropped 4.36% to 948.61 after adding 0.88% on Tuesday.
The fixed-income CROBIS index lost 0.13% to 114.2381.
(1 euro = 7.57559 kuna)