March 13 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) rose on Friday, as food producer Podravka [ZSE:PODR] paced the blue-chip gainers, ZSE data showed.
Podravka's shares rose sharply by 16.56% to 373 kuna on Friday.
Shipbuilding company Viktor Lenac [ZSE:VLEN] lead the blue-chip losers, as its share price fell 8.06% to 5.70 kuna.
Adris Grupa [ZSE:ADRS] recorded the highest turnover among the blue chips on Friday - of 42 million kuna, including a block transaction of 35 million kuna, on the back of trading in the company's ordinary shares. Its preferred shares added 1.76% to 346 kuna, while the ordinary shares rose 1.99% to 410 kuna.
Friday's total trading turnover was boosted by block transactions in the shares of Valamar Riviera [ZSE:RIVP], Podravka, Koncar Elektroindustrija [ZSE:KOEI], and Arena Hospitality Group [ZSE:ARNT], in the amount of 8.5 million kuna, 3.3 million kuna, 3.2 million kuna and 2.9 million kuna, respectively.
The ZSE said on Wednesday that Arena Hospitality Group will be excluded from the blue-chip index CROBEX10 as of March 23.
ZSE's total trading turnover soared to 106.05 million kuna ($15.6 million/14.0 million euro) on Friday, from 8.6 million kuna on Thursday.
On Thursday, Croatia's Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA) said it is suspending trading on the ZSE by the end of the day, after the ZSE temporarily halted trading at 0945 CET when its blue-chip index CROBEX fell by more than 10% from Wednesday's close.
The ZSE's 25-share benchmark CROBEX index rose 5.78% to 1,512.15 on Friday after falling 10.18% on Thursday.
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, gained 6.04% to 902.21 after dropping 10.31% on Thursday.
The fixed-income CROBIS index lost 0.80% to 112.7501.
(1 euro = 7.57216 kuna)