February 10 (SeeNews) - Serbian oil and gas group NIS [BEL:NIIS] was the most traded stock and generated the highest share turnover on the Belgrade stock market on Friday, as share indices ended mixed, bourse data indicated.
NIS lost 0.40% and closed at 744 dinars, as 5,313 of its shares changed hands in 92 transactions, generating a trading turnover of 3.952 million dinars on Friday.
Cookware maker Metalac [BEL:MTLC] led the blue-chip gainers list, after adding 2.91% to 1,700 dinars, as only ten shares changed hands. Metalac generated a share turnover of 17,000 dinars on Friday.
Civil engineering group Energoprojekt [BEL:ENHL] paced the blue-chip decliners on Friday, shedding 2.88% to 1,214 dinars, as 108 shares were traded, generating a turnover of 131,690 dinars.
The total stock trading turnover on the bourse fell to 10.3 million dinars ($88,331/83,037 euro), generated in a total of 259 transactions, from 18.7 million dinars on Thursday. Trading in shares on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) segment contributed 3.9 million dinars to the total turnover on the Belgrade stock market.
The blue-chip BELEX15 index, which tracks the most liquid shares on the Belgrade bourse, lost 0.38% to 702.58 points. On Thursday, the index added 0.80% to 705.26.
The broader BELEXline, a free‐float market capitalisation weighted index, edged up 0.01% and closed Friday's session at 1,537.55 after rising by 0.41% to 1,537.36 on Thursday.
No Treasury bonds changed hands on the Belgrade stock market on Friday. The euro-denominated RSO15104 Treasury bond issue, bearing a coupon of 4.0%, was excluded from trading from the Prime Listing segment of the Belgrade Stock Exchange on Friday. It matures on February 20, 2017.
In the period between February 6 and February 10, BELEX15 and BELEXline rose by 0.79% and 0.08%, respectively. BELEX15 closed in the red in two of the five trading sessions in the period, while BELEXline declined only on Wednesday and increased in each of the other four sessions.
Shares in lender Komercijalna banka [BEL:KMBN] advanced the most among the blue chips between February 6 and February 10. The stock added 4.13% in the period and closed at 1,490 dinars on Friday. A total of 314 shares in Komercijalna banka changed hands this week. Household appliances maker Alfa plam [BEL:ALFA] fell the most, down 3.44% to 33,789 dinars.
The total value of trading in shares on the Belgrade stock market this week was 44.1 million dinars, versus 892.9 million dinars in the previous week. Trading in Treasury bonds contributed 699.3 million dinars to this week's total trading turnover of 743.8 million dinars on the bourse.
Three transactions of Treasury bonds were carried out this week. A total of 42,000 bonds of the dinar-denominated RSO15105 issue changed hands in two transactions on Tuesday. The bonds bear a coupon of 10% and mature on March 2, 2018. On Wednesday, 2,000 bonds of the dinar-denominated RSO16134 Treasury bonds, bearing a coupon of 6% and maturing on February 22, 2019, changed hands in a single transaction. Last week, the trading in Treasury bonds amounted to 883 million dinars out of a total trading turnover of 1.773 billion million dinars.
Trading in shares on the multilateral trading facility (MTP) segment contributed 7.8 million dinars to the total turnover on the Belgrade stock market in the period between February 6 and February 10, versus 9.8 million dinars last week.
(1 euro = 124.044 dinars)
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