SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), July 5 (SeeNews) – The share indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges, in Sarajevo and in Banja Luka, closed mostly 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 719.09 points on Friday, down from 750.30 points on June 28.
The broader SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, ended lower at 1,186.39 on Friday, compared to 1,191.77 points a week earlier.
The SASE index-tracking investment funds, the BIFX, edged up 0.13% from last week at 764.37 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), decreased to 10,727.75 on Friday, from 10,935.16 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 611.74 points on Friday, 0.28% lower than a week earlier.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the biggest trading turnover - of 18,786 marka - on the BLSE's official market this week.
BLSE’s total trading turnover rose to 4.2 million marka ($2.4 million/2.1 million euro) in five sessions from 3 million marka in as many trading days last week. This week's turnover was generated in 279 transactions.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)