December 16 (SeeNews) - Oil and gas company NIS [BEL:NIIS] generated the highest turnover among blue chips on the Belgrade stock market on Friday and was also the most traded company, as 9,245 shares changed hands.
Share indices ended mixed, bourse data showed.
The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, added 0.18% to 721.17 points. On Thursday, the index added 0.06% to 719.90.
The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, closed in the red for third straight session, losing 0.10% to 1,576.23, after declining 0.04% to 1,577.74 on Thursday.
Industrial gases producer Messer Tehnogas [BEL:TGAS] led the blue-chip gainers by adding 2.16% to 13,690 dinars in a trading volume of just ten shares.
Construction company Jedinstvo [BEL:JESV] paced the blue-chip decliners losing 0.88% to 4,411 dinars.
NIS generated a turnover of 6.9 million dinars ($58,272/55,907 euro) on Friday, the highest among blue chips, and accounted for more than one-third of the 18 million dinars total trading in shares on the bourse for the day. On Thursday, turnover from trading in shares on the Belgrade Stock Exchange halved to 20.9 million dinars.
On Friday, trading in Treasury bonds generated 263.7 million dinars of the day's total bourse turnover of 281.7 million dinars.
In the trading week between December 12 and 16, BELEX15 won 0.23%, while BELEXline lost 0.63%. BELEX15 closed in the red in only one session in the period, on Wednesday. BELEXline, in turn, ended its six-day winning streak on Wednesday and declined in the two sessions thereafter.
The total value of trading in shares on the Belgrade stock market in the period amounted to 121 million dinars, versus 137 million dinars in the previous week. Trading in Treasury bonds made 1.166 billion dinars of the week's total turnover of 1.284 billion dinars on the Belgrade Stock Exchange.
NIS was the most traded stock this week, with a total of 43,180 shares changing hands between December 12 and 16. The trading turnover in NIS shares amounted to 32.2 million dinars.
(1 euro = 123.427 dinars)
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