March 20 (SeeNews) - The indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) closed higher on Wednesday, with electrical equipment manufacturer Koncar Elektroindustrija [ZSE:KOEI] leading the blue-chip gainers, bourse data showed.
Koncar's shares closed 4% higher at 650 kuna.
Telecommunication services provider Optima Telekom [ZSE:OPTE] paced the blue-chip decliners, as its shares closed 3.21% lower at 2.41 kuna.
Another Croatian telco - Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT], generated the highest trading turnover on the ZSE on Wednesday - 1.7 million kuna.
ZSE's total trading turnover shrank to 6.5 million kuna ($995,242/876,451 euro), from 21.2 million kuna on Tuesday.
The 25-share benchmark CROBEX share index rose by 0.59% to 1,787.48 on Wednesday after growing 0.16% 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, increased by 0.66% to 1,045.70 after decreasing 0.04% in the previous trading session.
The fixed-income CROBIS added 0.04% to 111.9030.
(1 euro = 7.41739 kuna)