SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), June 21 (SeeNews) – The share indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges, in Sarajevo and Banja Luka, closed lower on Friday, as compared to their values a week earlier, bourse data showed.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) ended at 735.13 points on Friday, down from 753.41 points on June 14.
The broader SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, ended lower at 1.184,19 on Friday, compared to 1,187.19 points a week earlier.
The SASE index-tracking investment funds, the BIFX, closed 1.72% down from last week at 763.62 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), decreased to 10,839.84 on Friday, from 10,971.82 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 617.22 points on Friday, 1.87% lower than a week earlier.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the biggest trading turnover - of 1.3 million marka - on the BLSE's official market this week.
BLSE’s total trading turnover soared to 42.3 million marka ($24.5 million/21.6 million euro) in five sessions from 1.5 million marka in as many trading days last week. This week's turnover was generated in 283 transactions. Of the total amount, 37.9 million marka came from the sale of bonds, including 37.5 million marka of government paper sold at an auction on June 17.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)