June 5 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) closed higher on Wednesday after falling for five straight days, as telecommunication services provider Optima Telekom [ZSE:OPTE] paced the blue-chip gainers, bourse data showed.
Optima's shares closed 5.34% higher at 4.34 kuna.
Tuesday's biggest gainer, shipbuilding company Viktor Lenac [ZSE:VLEN], led the blue-chip losers on Wednesday, as its shares closed 3.6% lower at 5.35 kuna.
Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] generated the highest trading turnover among the blue-chip companies on Wednesday, of 3.1 million kuna, including a 2.2 million kuna block transaction.
ZSE's total trading turnover grew to 11.5 million kuna ($1.7 million/1.6 million euro), from 8.3 million kuna on Tuesday.
The 25-share benchmark index CROBEX rose 0.65% to 1,858.73 after falling 0.03% on Tuesday.
The narrower of the ZSE's two blue-chip indices, the CROBEX10, which tracks the leading companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, also added 0.65% to 1,087.74 after edging down 0.02% in the previous trading session.
The fixed-income CROBIS index rose 0.14% to 113.2140.
(1 euro = 7.41667 kuna)