SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), February 1 (SeeNews) – Share indices of Bosnia's Sarajevo Stock Exchange and Banja Luka bourse closed higher, stock market data showed.
The SASX-10 index, tracking the 10 blue chips of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE), ended at 787.23 points on Friday, up 1.83% from a week earlier.
The broader SASX-30 index, comprising the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, closed at 937.87 points, up 0.70% from last Friday.
SASE's index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, ended at 1,598.69 points, up 1.65%.
SASE's total weekly stock turnover fell to 1.1 million marka ($770,300/562,400 euro) from 7.5 million marka.
Drug maker Bosnalijek [SAJ:BSNLR] was the most traded stock on SASE's official market this week, generating a turnover of 297,637 marka.
SASE is based in the Muslim-Croat 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.
BLSE’s benchmark index, the BIRS, closed at 788.32 points on Friday, up 0.47% from a week earlier.
The bourse's investment fund index, the FIRS, added 1.18% from last Friday to a close of 1,980.78 points.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the biggest turnover of 235,762 marka on BLSE's official market this week.
The stock's average price was 1.65 marka on Friday, up 3.77% from a week earlier.
BLSE’s total weekly turnover dropped to 4.3 million marka from 26.4 million marka.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bosnian marka)