SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), April 23 (SeeNews) – The share indices of Bosnia's Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) closed mixed on Friday, compared to their values a week earlier, whereas the benchmark index of the country's other exchange, in Banja Luka, closed lower, bourse data showed.
The 10-share benchmark SASX-10 index of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE) ended Friday's session at 749.66 points, up 1.60% compared with its April 16 close.
The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, closed 0.25% lower at 1,426.19 points.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, added 0.58% to 925.90 points.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), fell 0.17% to 9,545.84 points. The index tracks 25 companies.
SASE’s turnover more than doubled to 1.1 million marka ($679,000/562,000 euro) this week, from 420,400 marka last week.
SASE is based in the Federation, one of two autonomous entities that form 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 580.82 points on Friday, down 0.25% compared to its closing level on April 16.
The bourse's total trading turnover soared to 7 million marka this week from 278,968 marka last week.
Some 5 million marka of the total trading turnover this week were generated by trading in Treasury bills.
Lender Nova Banka [BANJ:NOVB-R-E] contributed the largest portion of this week's total trading turnover among the companies on the BLSE, of 800,000 marka. The company's shares closed unchanged at 0.50 marka on Friday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)
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