September 30 (SeeNews) - The main share indices of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) closed mostly higher on Friday, compared with the week earlier, while the benchmark index of the country's other stock exchange, the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE), inched up, bourse data showed.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) ended Friday's session at 1,051.50 points, up 0.37% compared with its closing value on September 23.
The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, edged up 0.22% to 1,716.29 points.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, closed at 858.33 points, up 1.96% compared with September 23.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), inched up 0.03% to 11,364.31 points. The index tracks 25 companies.
SASE’s turnover came in at 540,505 marka ($270,111/276,355 euro) this trading week, down from 1.7 million marka last week. A total of 120,791 shares changed hands in 76 transactions.
The SASE is based in the Federation, one of two autonomous entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina. The BLSE is based in the other entity, the Serb Republic.
The BLSE’s benchmark index, the BIRS, closed at 773.00 points on Friday, up 0.13% compared to its closing value recorded a week earlier.
The bourse's total trading turnover fell to 810,195 marka this week from 49.6 million marka last week, as 131 transactions were carried out.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the largest trading turnover, of 375,443 marka, on the BLSE's official market this week. The company's shares closed flat at 1.51 marka on Friday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)