BANJA LUKA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), December 11 (SeeNews) – The indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges closed the week lower with turnover halving on the Sarajevo bourse and rising in Banja Luka, bourse data showed on Friday.
The SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange, SASE, which tracks the bourse's 10 blue chips, closed at 1,052.17 points on Friday, 0.34% down from a week ago.
The SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on SASE, on Friday was 1.08% down from a week earlier at 1,099.27. SASE's index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, fell 2.62% to 1,828.70 points this week.
Blue-chip drug firm Bosnalijek posted the highest turnover of 302,732 marka on SASE's official market this week. Its stock was traded at an average price of 16.46 marka ($13/8.4 euro) on Friday, down from 16.51 marka a week ago.
SASE's total turnover almost halved to 5.6 million marka this week from 10.9 million marka last week.
SASE is based in the Muslim-Croat Federation, one of Bosnia's two autonomous parts. The other one is the Serb Republic, where the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE) is based.
The turnover on BLSE, Bosnia's smaller bourse, rose to 4.6 million marka this week from 3.2 million marka last week.
The benchmark BIRS index of the BLSE ended at 999.87 points on Friday, down 0.40% from a week earlier. The BLSE investment funds index, FIRS, fell 1.93% to 1,823.03 this week.
The most liquid stock on BLSE's official market was lender Nova Banka, which was traded in turnover of 123,740 marka this week. Its shares closed at an average weighted price of 1,345 marka on Friday, down 0.37% from a week ago.
Among the investment funds traded on the BLSE, ZIF Zepter Fond posted the highest turnover of 70,508 marka this week. The stock's average weighted price was 5.16 marka on Friday, down 6.18% from last week.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bosnian marka)
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