Atlantska Plovidba leads blue-chip gainers on ZSE, share indices close mixed

Atlantska Plovidba closed 2.94% higher at 420 kuna. The company was the biggest blue-chip loser on Thursday.

Shipbuilding company Viktor Lenac [ZSE:VLEN] paced the blue-chip losers on Friday, after leading the gainers on Thursday. Its shares closed at 7 kuna, down 2.78%.

Food producer Podravka [ZSE:PODR] contributed the biggest portion of trading turnover among the blue chips on Friday, of 1.5 million kuna. The company's shares closed down 1.12% at 443 kuna.

Confectionery producer Kras, which has been boosting ZSE's turnover over the past weeks, edged up 0.56% at 905 kuna in deals worth 844,280 kuna in total.

On September 9, meat producer Braca Pivac said it plans to launch a joint buyout bid with local trading company Kras-ESOP for the remaining stake of 50.82% in Kras the two firms do not own among themselves yet. The company's shares were trading below the 400 kuna mark before the buyout plans were announced.

ZSE's total trading turnover plummeted to 8.6 million kuna ($1.3 million/1.2 million euro), from 28.2 million kuna on Thursday.

The 25-share benchmark CROBEX index rose by 0.03% to 1,926.57 after dropping 1.14% in the previous trading session.

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, decreased a further 0.02% to 1,143.99 after losing 0.96% on Thursday.

The fixed-income CROBIS index edged down 0.02% to 116.9470.

(1 euro = 7.41843 kuna)