Croatian Share Indices Advance, Turnover Up

The 24-share benchmark CROBEX index closed 2.33% higher at 2,115 points after rising 1.42% on Monday.

The narrower blue-chip index, CROBEX10, which tracks the 10 leading companies in terms of free-float market capitalisation and liquidity, rose 2.30% to 1,112.52 points.

The CROX index, which tracks the 12 most traded stocks on the ZSE and is calculated by the Vienna bourse, added 1.88% in euro terms to 1,290.32 points.

Shares of telco T-HT, majority-owned by Deutsche Telekom, ticked up 0.26% to 271 kuna ($55/37 euro) in the day's highest turnover of some 7.3 million kuna.

ZSE's total turnover in floor trading rose to 31.4 million kuna from Monday's 23.5 million kuna.

The fixed-income CROBIS index closed 0.36% higher at 94.91 points.

(1 euro = 7.3073 Croatian kuna)