NIS most traded on Belgrade bourse, share indices grow

A total of 11,485 of its shares changed hands in 58 deals, generating a turnover of 8 million dinars, the highest on the bourse on Friday. NIS lost 0.14% and closed at 699 dinars.

Industrial gases maker Messer Tehnogas [BEL:TGAS] led the blue-chip gainers' list on the Belgrade Stock Exchange on Friday, as it won 1.51% to 12,182 dinars. A total of 143 of the company's shares changed hands in five deals, generating a turnover of 1.7 million dinars.

The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, added 0.17% to 724.37 points on Friday. On Thursday, the index went up 0.44%.

The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, grew 0.26% on Friday and closed at 1,560.12 points, after rising 0.40% on Thursday.

Soybean processing company Sojaprotein [BEL:SJPT] paced the blue-chip decliners on the Belgrade Stock Exchange on Friday, as it lost 6.02% to 281 dinars. The company generated a share turnover of 226,770 dinars, as 807 shares changed hands.

The total stock trading turnover on the bourse fell to 20.9 million dinars ($206,247/174,692 euro) on Friday from 36.4 million dinars on Thursday, as 338 share transactions were carried out. Trading on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) of the bourse came in at 2.3 million dinars.

Trading in Treasury bonds contributed 158.9 million dinars to the session's total trading turnover of 178.9 million dinars on the bourse, as three deals were carried out. Investors traded a total of 14,748 bonds of the dinar-denominated RSO15105 issue, maturing on March 2, 2018, and bearing a coupon of 10%.

In the period between August 7 and 11, BELEX15 and BELEXline lost 0.69% and 0.40%, respectively.

Messer Tehnogas led the blue-chip gainers' list this week, as it won 6.86% in the period. A total of 610 shares in the company changed hands, generating a turnover of 7.3 million dinars.

The total value of trading in shares on the Belgrade stock market in the period between August 7 and 11 was 137.9 million dinars, versus 205.7 million dinars in the previous week.

The total value of the trade in Treasury bonds came in at 695.1 million dinars, versus 2.777 billion dinars last week.

(1 euro = 119.662 dinars)