SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), December 22 (SeeNews) – The indices of Bosnia's two bourses, the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) and the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE), ended the week down, amid lower turnover, bourse data indicated on Friday.
SASE's 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index decreased 6.03% from last Friday to 573.20 points this week.
The broader SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, closed at 967.39 points, down 2.18% compared to last Friday.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, dropped 2.92% to 791.25 points.
The Islamic stock index, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), decreased 4.77% to 8,788.57 points. The index tracks 25 companies.
SASE's total trading turnover came in at 18.6 million marka ($11.3 million/9.5 million euro), compared to 26.8 marka a week earlier.
Drug maker Bosnalijek [SAJ:BSNLR] was the most traded stock on SASE's official market. The stock generated a trading turnover of 16,350.40 this week.
SASE is based in the Federation, one of the two autonomous entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The BLSE is based in the other entity, the Serb Republic.
BLSE’s benchmark index, the BIRS, lost 1.79% from last Friday, reaching 564.97 points this week.
Bosnia’s Nova Banka [BANJ:NOVB-R-E] generated the biggest trading turnover of 170,994.60 marka on BLSE's official market this week.
BLSE’s total trading turnover fell to 1.5 million marka this week from 2 million marka last week.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)