January 25 (SeeNews) - Lender Komercijalna banka [BEL:KMBN] was the biggest blue-chip gainer on the Belgrade bourse for a second straight session on Wednesday, as share indices declined, stock exchange data showed.
Komercijalna banka won 1.78% and closed at 1,720 dinars as only five shares changed hands on Wednesday. The bank was the only blue-chip gainer on Tuesday, when it won 0.54% and closed at 1,690 dinars, as a total of 22,234 shares changed hands in a single transaction.
The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, lost 0.12% to 698.19 points. On Tuesday, the index edged down by 0.27% to 699.04 and fell below 700 points for the first time since November 30.
The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, decreased by 0.04% and closed the session at 1,535.28, after falling by 0.27% to 1,535.89 on Tuesday.
Belgrade airport operator Aerodrom Nikola Tesla [BEL:AERO], a BELEX15 component, was the most traded on the Belgrade Stock Exchange on Wednesday, as 16,945 of its shares changed hands in a total of 149 transactions. Aerodrom Nikola Tesla generated a share trading turnover of 18.639 million dinars, the largest one on the Belgrade bourse on Wednesday.
Civil engineering group Energoprojekt [BEL:ENHL] paced the blue-chip decliners after losing 1.92% to 1,279 dinars. Energorpojekt was the second most traded on the Belgrade bourse, as 4,834 of its shares changed hands amid a trading volume of 6.18 million dinars.
Trading in shares generated 32.1 million dinars ($278,152/259,289 euro) of turnover on Wednesday versus 46.6 million dinars on Tuesday. Trading in shares on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) segment accounted for 3.2 million dinars of the total turnover on the Belgrade stock market.
A total of 28 million dinars of the combined share turnover on the Belgrade stock market was generated by the components of BELEX15.
No Treasury bonds changed hands on the Belgrade bourse on Wednesday.
(1 euro = 123.800 dinars)