September 4 (SeeNews) - The share indices of Bosnia’s two stock exchanges mostly fell this week as weekly turnover in Sarajevo declined, while trading volumes in Banja Luka soared, bourse data showed on Friday.
The SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange, SASE, which tracks the bourse’s 10 blue chips, fell 1.0% from last Friday to 1,034.56 points.
SASE's index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, was down 1.12% to 1,931.52 points this week. The bourse’s SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the market, rose 0.03% to 1,143.38 this week.
Blue-chip drug firm Bosnalijek posted the highest weekly turnover on the bourse's official market. It traded at an average price of 16.49 marka ($12/8.4 euro) on Friday, up from 16.45 marka a week ago. Its turnover was 234,659 marka this week.
SASE's total turnover fell to 2.3 million marka this week from 3.2 million last week.
The turnover on the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE), Bosnia's smaller bourse, rose to 9.0 million marka this week from 1.6 million marka last week.
The benchmark BIRS index of the BLSE closed at 992.88 points on Friday, down 1.74% from a week earlier. The BLSE investment fund index, FIRS, rose 1.44% to 1,808.51.
The most liquid stock on BLSE's official market was commercial bank Nova Banka, which traded in a turnover of 206,648 marka. It closed at 1,270 marka on Friday, down 9.29% from a week earlier.
Among the investment funds traded on the BLSE, ZIF Bors Invest Fond posted the highest turnover this week of 59,394 marka. Its stock's average weighted price was 3.25 marka on Friday, up 3.50% from a week earlier.
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)
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