Belgrade Share Indices Continue Uphill Run, Volumes Pick Up

The blue-chip BELEX15 index of the Belgrade Stock Exchange climbed 2.08% to 760.06 points after edging up 0.55% on Wednesday. The broader BELEXline index picked up 1.70% to 1,430.84 points after lifting up 0.41% a day earlier.

The joint SRX index of the bourses in Belgrade and Vienna added 1.17% to 342.88 on Thursday.

The Belgrade bourse's total turnover rose to 67.6 million dinars ($1.05 million/723,633 euro) from 53 million on Wednesday. Trade in government securities rose to 21.4 million dinars from 2.4 million dinars on Wednesday.

Blue-chip lender AIK Banka gained 6.53% to 2,887 dinars in the highest turnover for the day, 9.5 million dinars.

Blue-chip engineering holding company Energoprojekt picked up 0.74% to 956 dinars in the second highest turnover of 4.4 million dinars.

Commercial bank Cacanska Banka was the biggest gainer on Thursday, advancing 17.82% to 19,890 dinars.

Insurance company Globos Osiguranje was the day’s biggest faller, plunging 5.36% to 808 dinars.

Gainers outnumbered losers 26 to 11, while shares of 20 companies ending unchanged on Thursday. 

(1 euro=93.3599 Serbian dinars)