September 25 (SeeNews) - The share indices on Bosnia’s two stock exchanges mostly rose this week in hefty trading volumes, bourse data showed on Friday.
The SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange, SASE, which tracks the bourse’s 10 blue chips, fell 0.41% from last Friday to 1,119.40 points.
SASE's index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, was up 0.55% to 2,016.31 points this week. The bourse’s SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the market, gained 0.65% to 1,180.16 this week.
Blue-chip drug firm Bosnalijek posted the highest weekly turnover on the bourse's official market of 502,191 marka. It traded at an average price of 17.36 marka ($13/9.2 euro) on Friday, marginally higher than its price of 16.83 marka a week ago.
SASE's total weekly turnover was 4.7 million marka this week. No comparative data for the previous week's turnover was immediately available.
The turnover on the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE), Bosnia's smaller bourse, rose to 2.0 million marka this week from 1.3 million marka last week.
The benchmark BIRS index of the BLSE closed at 1,040.87 points on Friday, up 3.64% from a week earlier. The BLSE investment fund index, FIRS, rose by a weekly 1.94% to 2,118.13.
The most liquid stock on BLSE's official market was telco Telekom Srpske which traded in a turnover of 580,930 marka. It closed at an average weighted price of 1.49 marka on Friday, up 7.19% from a week earlier.
Among the investment funds traded on the BLSE, ZIF Balkan Investment Fond posted the highest turnover this week of 319,357 marka. The stock's average weighted price was 4.0 marka on Friday, down 0.25% from a week earlier.
BLSE is based in the Serb Republic, one of Bosnia's two autonomous parts. SASE is based in the other part, the Muslim-Croat Federation.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bosnian marka)