January 3 (SeeNews) - The benchmark index of Bosnia's Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE), the BIRS, gained 25.89% in 2022, reaching 840.88 points, bourse data showed.
Total trading turnover in 2022 was also higher, reaching 688.4 million marka ($371.6 million/352 million euro), compared with 377.7 million marka generated in 2021, data posted on the BLSE website showed.
The BLSE's total market capitalisation amounted to 4.7 billion marka in December, higher compared with 4.1 billion marka in December 2021.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] contributed the largest portion of last year's total trading turnover among the companies on the BLSE, of 16 million marka. The company's shares closed at 1.62 marka at the end of 2022, up from 1.42 marka at the end of 2021.
In December alone, the BIRS gained 2.39%, while total turnover rose to 99.2 million marka from 59 million marka in the same month a year earlier.
Equity turnover from regular trading on the BLSE totalled 2.7 million marka in December, up from 2.4 million marka in December 2021.
A total of 531 transactions were concluded on the Banja Luka bourse in December, compared with 549 transactions in the last month of 2021.
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)