January 3 (SeeNews) - The benchmark index of Bosnia's Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE), the BIRS, gained 15.77% in 2021, reaching 667.93 points, bourse data showed.
Total trading turnover in 2021, however, was down by half - to 377.7 million marka ($219.3 million/193.1 million euro) from 734 million marka generated in 2020, data posted on the BLSE wesite showed.
The BLSE's total market capitalisation amounted to 4.1 billion marka in December, slightly higher compared with 4 billion marka in December 2020.
Health and tourism company ZTC Banja Vrucica [BANJ:BVRU-RA] contributed the largest portion of last year's total trading turnover among the companies on the BLSE, of 15.3 million marka. The company's shares closed at 0.901 marka at the end of 2021, down from 1.33 marka at the end of 2020.
In December alone, the BIRS shed 0.79%, while total turnover fell to 59 million marka from 63.1 million marka in the same month a year earlier.
Equity turnover from regular trading on the BLSE totalled 2.4 million marka in December, down from 2.8 million marka in December 2020.
A total of 549 transactions were concluded on the Banja Luka bourse in December, compared with 703 transactions in the last month of 2020.
The BLSE is based in the Serb Republic, one of two autonomous entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) is based in the other entity, the Federation.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)