SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), May 29 (SeeNews) – The share indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges, in Sarajevo and Banja Luka, closed mixed the trading week endеd on May 29, bourse data showed.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) ended at 717.78 points on Friday, down by a weekly 0.32%.
The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, rose by 0.13% to a closing value of 1,326.78 on Friday.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, closed 0.27% lower at 974.38 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by the SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), rose 0.21% to 9,524.02 points. The index tracks 25 companies.
Pharmaceuticals producer Bosnalijek [SAJ:BSNLR] was the most traded company on SASE's official market during the week, contributing 6,000 marka to the total turnover. Its shares closed the week at 14.15 marka, unchanged from a week earlier.
SASE’s total weekly turnover plunged to 869,000 marka ($493,000/444,000 euro) this week, from 65.8 million marka the previous week when some 60 million marka of the total came from the sale of government securities.
SASE is based in the Federation, one of the two autonomous entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE) is based in the other entity, the Serb Republic.
The BLSE’s benchmark index, the BIRS, closed at 622.34 points on Friday, up by 0.39% compared to last Friday.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the largest trading turnover, of 408,000 marka, on the BLSE this week. The company's shares closed at 1.03 marka on Friday, up by a weekly 3.21%.
BLSE’s total trading weekly turnover declined to 510,000 marka this week from 4.2 million marka last week. The weekly turnover was generated in 136 transactions.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)