October 3 (SeeNews) - The share indices on the Zagreb stock exchange (ZSE) fell on Thursday, as shipping company Atlantska Plovidba [ZSE:ATPL] led the blue-chip losers, bourse data showed.
Atlantska Plovidba closed 3.77% lower at 408 kuna.
Shipbuilding company Viktor Lenac [ZSE:VLEN] paced the blue-chip gainers on Thursday, surging 10.77% to 7.20 kuna.
Telecommunication services provider Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] contributed the biggest portion of trading turnover among the blue chips on Thursday, of 2.3 million kuna. The company's shares closed flat at 168 kuna.
Confectionery producer Kras, which has been boosting ZSE's turnover over the past weeks, closed flat at 900 kuna in deals worth 2 million 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 fell to 28.2 million kuna ($4.2 million/3.8 million euro), from 38.7 million kuna on Wednesday.
The 25-share benchmark CROBEX index fell by 1.14% to 1,926.05 after dropping 0.28% 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 0.96% to 1,144.22 after losing 0.54% on Wednesday.
The fixed-income CROBIS index closed flat at 116.9702.
(1 euro = 7.4178 kuna)