October 26 (SeeNews) - Industrial gases maker Messer Tehnogas [BEL:TGAS] led the blue-chip gainers' list on the Belgrade Stock Exchange on Thursday, as share indices ended mixed, bourse data showed.
Messer Tehnogas won 1.87% and closed at 12,224 dinars, as 87 of its shares changed hands, generating a turnover of 1.1 million dinars.
Belgrade airport operator Aerodrom Nikola Tesla [BEL:AERO] generated the highest turnover among the blue chips, as 1,130 of its shares changed hands in 57 deals for a total of 1.6 million dinars. Aerodrom Nikola Tesla's share price closed the session at 1,400 dinars, up 0.57%.
The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, increased 0.13% to 728.50 points on Thursday. On Wednesday, the index rose 0.05%.
The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, went down 0.50% on Thursday and closed at 1,597.80 points, after increasing 0.11% on Wednesday.
Industrial holding group Jedinstvo [BEL:JESV] paced the blue-chip decliners on Thursday, as its share price fell by 2.72% to 5,156 dinars. A total of ten shares of the company changed hands, generating a turnover of 51,560 dinars.
The total stock trading turnover on the bourse rose to 19.6 million dinars ($193,116/164,247 euro) on Thursday from 4 million dinars on Wednesday, as 140 share transactions were carried out. Trading on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) of the bourse came in at 15 million dinars.
Trading in Treasury bonds contributed 276.9 million dinars to the session's total trading turnover of 296.4 million dinars on the bourse. A total of 25,000 bonds of the dinar-denominated RSO15122 issue changed hands in a single deal. The bonds bear a coupon of 8% and mature on October 22, 2020. Investors also traded 40 bonds of the dinar-denominated RSO17152 issue, maturing on April 5, 2020, and bearing a coupon of 4.5%.
(1 euro = 119.332 dinars)