February 17 (SeeNews) - The share indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) fell on Monday, as telecommunication services provider Optima Telekom [ZSE:OPTE] led the blue-chip losers, ZSE data showed.
Optima's shares closed 2.48% lower at 7.85 kuna.
Shipbuilding company Viktor Lenac [ZSE:VLEN] paced the blue-chip gainers on Monday, as its shares rose 3.75% to 8.30 kuna.
Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] recorded the highest turnover among the blue chips for a fourth straight day on Monday, of 2.4 million kuna. The company's share price fell 0.27% to 183.5 kuna.
Trading in HT's shares generated a turnover of 5.6 million kuna on Wednesday, 4.5 million kuna on Thursday and 2.9 million kuna on Friday.
Last Monday, Hrvatski Telekom said that it signed 13 partnership agreements with municipal authorities in the country to implement broadband network construction projects that will serve the needs of 135,000 new customers.
On Monday, the ZSE's total trading turnover almost doubled to 15.8 million kuna ($2.3 million/2.1 million euro) from 8.5 million kuna on Friday.
The ZSE's 25-share benchmark CROBEX index lost 0.23% to 2,027.62 after adding 0.15% on Friday.
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, fell 0.16% to 1,206.35 after falling by the same rate on Friday.
The fixed-income CROBIS index edged up 0.05% to 115.3304.
(1 euro = 7.44326 kuna)