Belgrade Share Indices Plunge, Turnover Swells

The blue-chip BELEX15 index of the Belgrade Stock Exchange tumbled 5.49% to 773.14 points after falling 0.96% on Thursday. The broader BELEXline index plunged 4.46% to 1,468.52 points after edging down 0.71% a day earlier.

The joint SRX index of the bourses in Belgrade and Vienna lost 3.84% to end at 354.78 on Friday.

The Belgrade bourse's total turnover rose to 73.3 million dinars ($1.1 million/786,593 euro) from 47.8 million dinars on Thursday. Trade in government bonds dropped to 2.7 million dinars from 8.1 million dinars a day earlier.

Blue-chip AIK Banka dipped 6.43% to 2,824 dinars in the day's largest turnover of 16.2 million dinars.

Blue-chip engineering holding company Energoprojekt lost 7.31% to 976 dinars in the session's second largest turnover of 7.4 million dinars.

Blue-chip Soybean producer Sojaprotein lost 6.86% to 1,113 dinars in the day’s third largest turnover of 6.6 million dinars.

Serbia’s majority state-owned transport company Lasta was the day’s biggest advancer, gaining 11.41% to 576 dinars.

Commercial bank Credy Banka was the session's biggest loser, shedding 9.75% to 5,144 dinars.

Fallers outnumbered climbers by 42 to 11, while the shares of 20 companies ended flat on the last working day of the week.

(1 euro=93.1867 Serbian dinars)