SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), February 8 (SeeNews) – The indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges, in Sarajevo and Banja Luka, on Friday closed mostly higher than a week earlier, bourse data showed.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) rose to 665.22 points, from 653.68 points last Friday.
The broader SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, closed at 1,138.00, compared to 1,133.44 points points a week earlier.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, fell to 703.76 points from 710.56 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), rose to 10,479.29 points on Friday from 10.292 points a week earlier. The index tracks 25 companies.
SASE is based in the Federation, one of the two autonomous entities that make up 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 672.13 points on Friday, up 7.42% from a week earlier.
Bosnia's Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the biggest trading turnover of 411,231.46 marka on the BLSE's official market this week.
The BLSE’s total trading turnover jumped to 37.8 million marka from 1.6 million marka a week earlier. This week's turnover has been generated in 366 transactions.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)