Komercijalna leads blue-chip gainers' list on Belgrade bourse, share indices rise

Komercijalna banka won 1.62% and closed at 1,942 dinars, as 89 of its shares changed hands, generating a turnover of 172,800 dinars.

Oil and gas company NIS [BEL:NIIS] was the most traded blue chip on the Belgrade bourse on Thursday, as 1,756 of its shares changed hands in 96 deals, generating a turnover of 1.2 million dinars. NIS closed lost 0.29% and closed at 678 dinars.

The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, rose 0.22% to 729.28 points on Thursday. On Wednesday, the index went up 0.41%.

The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, grew 0.03% on Thursday and closed at 1,615.11 points, after decreasing 0.32% on Wednesday.

Belgrade airport operator Aerodrom Nikola Tesla [BEL:AERO] paced the blue-chip decliners on the Belgrade Stock Exchange, as it lost 0.30% to 1,351 dinars. Aerodrom Nikola Tesla generated a turnover of 141,843 dinars, as 105 shares changed hands.

The total stock trading turnover on the bourse rose to 11.4 million dinars ($114,461/95,225 euro) on Thursday from 5.96 million dinars on Wednesday, as 199 share transactions were carried out. Trading on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) of the bourse came in at 1.3 million dinars.

Trading in treasury bonds generated 788.4 million dinars of the bourse's total turnover of 799.8 million dinars. A total of 3,960 bonds of the euro-denominated RSO16144 issue, bearing a coupon of 2.5% and maturing on September 12, 2021, changed hands. Investors also traded 30,000 dinars of the dinar-denominated RSO17154 issue, maturing on May 18, 2019, and bearing a coupon of 3.50%.

(1 euro = 119.819 dinars)