Podravka lifts Croatia's main equity indices

The 19-share CROBEX advanced 0.21% to finish at 1,905.17 points. The narrower index CROBEX10, which tracks the top ten companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, rose 0.35% to close at 1,128.46 points.

Index heavyweight, food and pharmaceuticals producer Podravka was the most traded company with a turnover of 2.8 million kuna ($386,000/371,000 euro). Its shares surged 2.56% to end at 642 kuna.

Consumer goods distributor Atlantic Grupa [ZSE:ATGR] ranked second by turnover with 817,000 kuna. Its shares ended flat at 320 kuna.

Shares of another index heavyweight, Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] dipped 0.29% to close at 174 kuna in a turnover of 469,000 kuna.

The bourse's regular trading turnover was 5.4 million kuna, up from 5.2 million kuna on Tuesday.

(1 euro = 7.542 Croatian kuna)