Belgrade Shares Continue Downward Trend in Lower Volumes

The blue-chip BELEX15 index of the Belgrade Stock Exchange shed 0.96% to 818.03 points after sliding 0.2% on Wednesday. The broader BELEXline index edged down 0.71% to 1,537.11 points after falling 0.05% a day earlier.

The joint SRX index of the bourses in Belgrade and Vienna lost 1.93% to end at 368.72 on Thursday.

The Belgrade bourse's total turnover fell to 47.8 million dinars ($747,500/513,700 euro) from 162.3 million dinars on Wednesday. Trade in government bonds dropped to 8.1 million dinars from 12 million dinars a day earlier.

AIK Banka dipped 2.14% to 3,018 dinars in the day's largest turnover of 10.1 million dinars.

Blue chip Privredna Banka lost 4.45% to 901 dinars in the session's second largest turnover of 3.9 million dinars.

Information technology company Informatika was the day’s biggest loser, sliding 9.33% to 3,617 dinars.

Edible oil producer Vital was the session's biggest advancer, adding 10.32% to 1,700 dinars.

Fallers outnumbered climbers by 37 to 17, while the shares of 15 companies ended flat on Thursday.

(1 euro=93.0862 Serbian dinars)