SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), January 18 (SeeNews) – Most of the indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges, in Sarajevo and Banja Luka, remained in positive territory for yet another week, bourse data showed on Friday.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) closed at 655.35 points, up from 639.37 points last Friday.
The broader SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, closed at 1,140.39 points, compared to 1,140.51 points a week earlier.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, rose to 708.25 points from 699.6 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), rose to 10,421 points on Friday from 10,199.44 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 576.32 points on Friday, up 58% from a week earlier.
Bosnia's Nova Banka [BANJ:NOVB-R-E] generated the biggest trading turnover of 152,976 marka on the BLSE's official market this week.
The BLSE’s total trading turnover decreased to 902,838 marka from 1.875 million marka a week earlier. This week's turnover has been generated in 119 transactions.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)
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