Belgrade bourse BELEX15 closes higher as Messer rises

The BELEX15 added 0.19%, closing at 986.68 points.

Messer Tehnogas was the sole blue-chip gainer on Friday, rising 1.14% to close at 24,375 dinars as 59 shares traded.

At the other end, engineering company Energoprojekt Holding [BEL:ENHL] led the blue-chip decliners by shedding 0.54% to close at 365 dinars on a volume of 1,000 shares.

Oil and gas company NIS [BEL:NIIS], which fell 0.12% to 806 dinars at close, generated the single highest turnover of 2.79 million dinars for the day.

The broader BELEXline, a free-float market capitalisation weighted index, also rose, closing 0.49% higher at 2,208.08 points.

Total turnover on the Belgrade bourse dropped to 10.7 million dinars ($100,500/94,000 euro) on Friday from 77.9 million dinars on Thursday. Some 75 million dinars of Thursday's total came from trading in government securities. No government bonds were traded on Friday.

(1 euro = 117.045 dinars)