March 16 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) fell on Monday, as shipping company Atlantska Plovidba [ZSE:ATPL] led the blue-chip losers, ZSE data showed.
Atlantska's shares fell sharply - by 19.57% to 166.50 kuna on Monday.
Diversified holding company Djuro Djakovic [ZSE:DDJH] paced the blue-chip gainers, being the only blue-chip company to rise on Monday, as its share price gained 8.86% to 2.95 kuna.
Hotel operator Valamar Riviera [ZSE:RIVP] recorded the highest turnover among the blue chips that traded on Monday - of 20.6 million kuna, including a block transaction of 17.2 million kuna. Valamar Riviera's shares fell 5.7% to 21.50 kuna.
Monday's total trading turnover was also boosted by block transactions in the shares of Atlantic Grupa [ZSE:ATGR] and Arena Hospitality Group [ZSE:ARNT], in the amount of 2.4 million kuna and 2 million kuna, respectively.
The ZSE said last week that Arena Hospitality Group will be excluded from the blue-chip CROBEX10 index as of March 23.
ZSE's total trading turnover more than halved to 45.9 million kuna ($6.7 million/6.05 million euro) on Monday, from 106.05 million kuna on Friday.
The ZSE's 25-share benchmark CROBEX index fell 7.05% to 1,405.52 after rising 5.78% on Friday.
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 6.30% to 845.35 after gaining 6.04% on Friday.
The fixed-income CROBIS index lost 0.66% to 112.0082.
(1 euro = 7.57648 kuna)