September 30 (SeeNews) - The Belgrade bourse indices mainly extended their move to the downside on Wednesday as volumes rose helped by two block deals in shares of construction materials maker Sloga Novi Pazar.
The blue-chip BELEX15 index of the Belgrade Stock Exchange edged down 0.2% to 825.97 points after losing 0.44% on Tuesday. The broader BELEXline index slid 0.05% to 1,548.10 points after falling 0.77% a day earlier.
The joint SRX index of the bourses in Belgrade and Vienna picked up 0.19% to end at 375.97 on Wednesday.
The Belgrade bourse's total turnover rose to 162.3 million dinars ($2.6 million/1.7 million euro) from 112.6 million dinars on Tuesday. Trade in government bonds rose to 12 million dinars from 3.4 million dinars a day earlier.
The two block deals in shares of Sloga Novi Pazar generated a combined turnover of 96.6 million dinars. In the first block deal of 43.6 million dinars, 111,742 shares changed hands at 390 dinars each. In the second block deal, 135,896 shares also changed hands at 390 dinars each.
AIK Banka edged up 0.03% to 3,084 dinars in the day's largest non-block turnover of 25 million dinars.
Blue-chip Agrobanka lost 8.23% to 10,245 dinars in the session's second largest turnover of 8.9 million dinars.
Blue-chip engineering and telecommunications company Telefonija was the day’s biggest gainer, climbing 10.77% to 2,395 dinars.
Edible oil producer Vital was the session's biggest loser, sinking 10.41% to 1,541 dinars.
Fallers outnumbered climbers by 23 to 19, while the shares of 19 companies ended flat on Wednesday.
(1 euro=92.0862 Serbian dinars)
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