September 8 (SeeNews) - The share indices of Bosnia and Herzegovina's two stock exchanges, the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) and the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE), closed mostly higher on September 8, compared with their values a week earlier, weekly bourse data showed.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the SASE closed at 1,013.58 points on Friday, up 0.25% compared with a week earlier.
The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, ended at 1,762.99 points, up 0.08% from the end of last week.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, ended 2.03% lower at 782.55 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by the SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), closed at 11,072.85 points, some 0.22% higher compared with a week earlier. The index tracks 25 companies.
SASE’s turnover came in at some 40.7 million marka ($22.3 million/20.8 million euro) this week, up from 670,545 marka last week, as a total of 122,266 shares changed hands in 52 transactions.
The SASE is based in the Federation, one of two autonomous entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina. The BLSE is based in the other entity, the Serb Republic.
The benchmark index of the BLSE, the BIRS, closed at 716.72 points on Friday, 0.64% higher from its closing value recorded a week earlier.
BLSE's total trading turnover rose to 162.3 million marka this week from 6.4 million marka last week, as 116 transactions were carried out.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the largest trading turnover, of some 268,848 marka, on the BLSE's official market this week. The company's shares closed at 1.20 marka on Friday, up 2.56% compared with its closing price a week earlier.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)