SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), June 28 (SeeNews) – The share indices of Bosnia's two stock exchanges, in Sarajevo and Banja Luka, closed mostly higher 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 750.30 points on Friday, up from 735.13 points on June 21.
The broader SASX-30 index, which comprises the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, ended higher at 1,191.77 on Friday, compared to 1.184,19 points a week earlier.
The SASE index-tracking investment funds, the BIFX, edged down 0.03% from last week at 763.40 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), increased to 10,935.16 on Friday, from 10,839.84 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 613.46 points on Friday, 0.61% lower than a week earlier.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the biggest trading turnover - of 36,588 marka - on the BLSE's official market this week.
BLSE’s total trading turnover plummeted to 3 million marka ($1.7 million/1.5 million euro) in five sessions from 42.3 million marka in as many trading days last week. This week's turnover was generated in 223 transactions.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)