Bosnian share indices end week mostly down, amid mixed turnover

SASE's 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index increased 0.55% from last Friday to 623.22 points this week.

The broader SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, closed at 999.23 points, down 1.02% compared to last Friday.

The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, rose 0.18% to 852.30 points.

The Islamic stock index, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), edged down 0.07% to 9,829.64 points. The index tracks 25 companies.

SASE's total trading turnover came in at 2.2 million marka ($1.3 million/1.1 million euro), compared 9.2 million 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  8,673.44 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, dropped 0.05% from last Friday, reaching 559.31 points this week.

Bosnia’s Nova Banka [BANJ:NOVB-R-E] generated the biggest trading turnover of 76,195.58 marka on BLSE's official market this week.

BLSE’s total trading turnover jumped to 16.7 million marka this week from 2.0 million marka last week.

(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)