SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), April 9 (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 738.69 points, down 0.66% compared with its April 2 close.
The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, closed 0.24% lower at 1,430.40 points.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, lost 1.11% to 917.11 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), fell 0.20% to 9,511.96 points. The index tracks 25 companies.
SASE’s turnover rose to 1.9 million marka ($1.2 million/971,500 euro) this week, from 315,905 marka last week.
Insurer Sarajevo Osiguranje [SAJ:SOSOR] contributed the largest portion of the total trading turnover on the SASE - of 1 million marka. Its shares closed at 12.5 marka on Friday, down 0.95%.
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 582.38 points on Friday, down 0.11% compared to its closing level on April 2.
The bourse's total trading turnover fell to 610,273 marka this week from 1.1 million marka last week.
Telecommunication services provider Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] contributed the largest portion of this week's total trading turnover among the companies on the BLSE, of 59,517 marka. The company's shares closed unchanged at 1.04 marka on Friday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)
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