SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), November 27 (SeeNews) – The share indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges closed lower on Friday, compared to their values a week earlier, bourse data showed.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) ended Friday's session at 800.32 points, down 1.03% on a weekly comparison basis.
The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, fell 0.16% to a closing value of 1,428.90.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, closed flat compared to last Friday's value, at 945.74 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by the SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), went down 0.59% to 9,972.02 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 18,000 marka, with the share price ending the week flat at 17.50 marka.
The SASE’s total weekly turnover plunged to 418,000 marka ($255,000/214,000 euro) this week, from 51.2 million marka last week when 50 million marka of the total were generated through a government debt auction.
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 574.08 points on Friday, down 0.03% compared to its closing value on November 20.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the largest single turnover, of 299,000 marka, on the BLSE this week. The company's shares closed 1.63% higher at 1.00 marka on Friday.
BLSE’s trading turnover more than halved to 602,000 marka this week from 1.5 million marka last week.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)