Bosnian share indices close mostly lower week ending Nov 6

The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) ended Friday's session at 798.09 points, down 0.30% on a weekly comparison basis.

The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, rose 1.65% to a closing value of 1,433.34.

The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, closed 0.09% lower in comparison with last Friday's value, at 945.74 points.

The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by the SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), decreased 0.63% to 10,120.45 points. The index tracks 25 companies.

Trading in the shares of Bosnalijek [SASE:BSNLR] generated the largest single turnover on the bourse's official market - of 11,500 marka, with the share price rising to 17.69 marka at the end of this week from 17.51 marka last week.

The SASE’s total weekly turnover increased to 1.2 million marka ($729,000/614,000 euro) this week, from 683,000 marka last week.

The SASE is based in the Federation, one of 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 593.49 points on Friday, down 1.29% compared to its closing value on October 30.

Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the largest turnover, of 474,000 marka, on the BLSE this week. The company's shares closed at 1.00 marka on Friday, down 0.99% compared to a week ago.  

BLSE’s trading turnover totalled 2.6 million marka this week, with 1.8 million marka of the total coming from trading in government securities. Data for last week's trading turnover was unavailable.

(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)