Impol Seval leads blue-chip gainers' list in Belgrade, share indices decline

Impol Seval won 1.27% and closed at 4,000 dinars, as 49 of its shares changed hands, generating a turnover of 196,003 dinars.

Oil and gas company NIS [BEL:NIIS] was the most traded blue chip on the stock exchange on Friday, as 776 of its shares changed hands in 98 deals, generating a turnover of 529,005 dinars. The company also paced the blue-chip decliners, as it lost 0.44% and closed at 682 dinars.

The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, declined 0.12% to 724.71 points on Friday. On Thursday, the index lost 0.09%.

The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, went down 0.07% on Friday and closed at 1,607.19 points, after increasing 0.11% on Thursday.

The total stock trading turnover on the bourse fell to 8.4 million dinars ($83,656/70,486 euro) on Friday from 26 million dinars on Thursday, as 273 share transactions were carried out. Trading on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) of the bourse came in at 1.46 million dinars.

In the period between August 28 and September 1, BELEX15 and BELEXline won 0.08% and 1.22%, respectively.

Soybean processing company Sojaprotein [BEL:SJPT] paced the blue-chip decliners this week, as it lost 6.44% in the period and closed at 421 dinars on Friday. A total of 45 shares in the company changed hands, generating a turnover of 18,945 dinars.

The total value of trading in shares on the Belgrade stock market in the period between August 28 and September 1 was 69.6 million dinars, versus 257.7 million dinars in the previous week.

The total value of the trade in Treasury bonds came in at 234.4 million dinars, versus 354.1 million dinars last week.

(1 euro = 119.172 dinars)