January 17 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) rose on Friday, as telecommunication services provider Optima Telekom [ZSE:OPTE] posted the biggest gains among the blue chip companies, bourse data showed.
Optima's shares added 2.5% to 8.20 kuna, after they lost 1.23% on Thursday.
Shipbuilding company Viktor Lenac [ZSE:VLEN] was the biggest loser among the blue-chip companies on Friday. Its shares fell 5.63% to 7.55 kuna.
Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] generated the biggest turnover among the blue chips on Friday - 1.2 million kuna, as the company's shares fell 0.54% to 184 kuna.
ZSE's trading turnover almost doubled to 17.65 million kuna ($2.6 million/2.4 million euro) on Friday from 8.3 million kuna on Thursday.
The 25-share benchmark CROBEX index rose 0.34% to 2,049.38 after losing 0.29% in the previous trading session.
The narrower of ZSE's two blue-chip indices, the CROBEX10, which tracks the leading companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, added 0.19% to 1,214.88 after decreasing by 0.46% on Thursday.
The fixed-income CROBIS index closed flat at 115.7221.
(1 euro = 7.43785 kuna)