SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), October 30 (SeeNews) – The indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges closed the week down as turnover rose in Banja Luka but fell in Sarajevo, bourse data showed on Friday.
The SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange, SASE, which tracks the bourse's 10 blue chips, fell 2.88% from last Friday to 1,139.92 points.
The SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on SASE, ended down 1.22% from last Friday at 1,139.92. SASE's index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, ticked down 0.01% to 1,982.97 points this week.
Blue-chip drug firm Bosnalijek posted the highest turnover of 144,256 marka on SASE's official market this week. Its stock was traded at an average price of 16.32 marka ($12/8.3 euro) on Friday, down from 16.56 marka a week ago.
SASE's total turnover plunged to 4.5 million marka this week from 12 million marka last week.
The turnover on the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE), Bosnia's smaller bourse, rose to 7.1 million marka this week from 4.1 million marka last week.
The benchmark BIRS index of the BLSE ended at 1,020.57 points on Friday, down 0.83% from a week earlier. The BLSE investment funds index, FIRS, shed 2.66% to 1,950.23 this week.
The most liquid stock on BLSE's official market was Telekom Srpske, which was traded in a turnover of 279,901 marka this week. Its shares closed at an average weighted price of 1.48 marka on Friday, up 0.68% from a week ago.
Among the investment funds traded on the BLSE, ZIF Euroinvestment Fond posted the highest turnover this week of 40,678 marka. The stock's average weighted price was 9.82 marka on Friday, down 6.48% from a week ago.
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)