September 15 (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 lower on September 15, compared with their values a week earlier, weekly bourse data showed.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the SASE closed at 1,007.23 points on Friday, down 0.63% compared with a week earlier.
The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, ended at 1,753.18 points, down 0.56% from the end of last week.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, ended at 782.55 points, unchanged compared with the end of the previous week.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by the SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), closed at 11,013.89 points, some 0.53% lower compared with a week earlier. The index tracks 25 companies.
SASE’s turnover came in at some 599,672 marka ($326,705/306,607 euro) this week, down from 40.7 million marka last week, as a total of 67,624 shares changed hands in 72 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 690.37 points on Friday, some 3.68% lower from its closing value recorded a week earlier.
BLSE's total trading turnover dropped to 2.1 million marka this week from 162.3 million marka last week, as 126 transactions were carried out.
Telekom Srpske [BANJ:TLKM-R-A] generated the largest trading turnover, of some 45,145 marka, on the BLSE's official market this week. The company's shares closed at 1.20 marka on Friday, unchanged compared with a week earlier.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)