Croatian Share Indices Mostly Fall, Turnover Slips

The 24-share benchmark CROBEX index edged down 0.14% to 2,200.55 points after rising 1.80% on Tuesday. The 20-share CROEMI index, calculated by Raiffeisenbank Austria, is suspended from Wednesday.

The CROX index, which tracks the 12 most traded stocks on the ZSE and is calculated by the Vienna bourse, rose 0.42% in euro terms to 1,338.46 points.

The narrower blue-chip index, CROBEX10, which tracks the 10 leading companies in terms of free-float market capitalisation and liquidity, fell 0.18% to 1,157.24 points on Wednesday.

The shares of blue-chip telco T-HT, majority-owned by Deutsche Telekom, closed up 0.39% at 260.50 kuna ($52/36 euro) in the day's highest turnover of some 8.4 million kuna.

Total turnover in floor trading fell to 27.5 million kuna from 29.8 million kuna on Tuesday.

The fixed-income CROBIS index inched up 0.11% to 89.06 points.

(1 euro=7.2806 Croatian kuna)