September 29 (SeeNews) - The main equity indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) closed mixed on Wednesday, with food and pharmaceuticals producer Podravka [ZSE:PODR] remaining in investors' focus, bourse data showed.
Shares of power transmission equipment manufacturer Dalekovod [ZSE:DLKV] surged 7.59% to 85 kuna on news that Croatia's competition authority has allowed an intended concentration resulting from indirect control of Dalekovod [ZSE:DLKV] being jointly acquired by electrical equipment manufacturer Koncar Elektroindustrija [ZSE:KOEI] and Maltese company Construction Line Limited.
The ZSE's blue-chip 21-share benchmark CROBEX fell 0.21% to end at 1,983.68 points.
The narrower of the ZSE's two blue-chip indices, the CROBEX10, which tracks the top 10 companies from the Crobex in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, went up 0.03% to finish at 1,216.58 points.
Podravka was, as it has been in the past one week, the most traded stock. Trading in Podravka's shares contributed 4.07 million kuna ($405,000/347,000 euro) to Wednesday's turnover, as its shares went up 1.27% to close at 636 kuna.
Preferred shares of holding company Adris [ZSE:ADRS2] were the second most traded stock. They closed flat at 412 kuna.
Shares of another blue-chip company, Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] also ended unchanged, at 191 kuna, in a turnover of 1.7 million kuna. Hotel operator Turisthotel [ZSE:TUHO] gained 2.86% to 3,600 kuna in a turnover of 1.5 million kuna.
The ZSE's total turnover rose to 13.3 million kuna from to 11.5 million kuna on Tuesday.
(1 euro=7.501 kuna)