April 13 (SeeNews) - The main equity indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) ended mixed on Wednesday, as shares of detergent producer Saponia [ZSE:SAPN] soared, bourse data showed.
The 24-share blue-chip index, the CROBEX, fell 0.43% to 2,121.57 points, its second loss in as many trading days.
The narrower CROBEX10 which tracks the top ten companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, edged up 0.02% to finish at 1,276.78 points.
Lender Zagrebacka Banka [ZSE:ZABA] was the most traded company with a turnover of 1.4 million kuna ($201,000/185,000 euro). Its shares plunged 6.20% to finish at 66.60 kuna.
The second most liquid stock was Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] with a turnover of 1.2 million kuna. The blue-chip telco's shares ended flat at 191 kuna.
The only other share with a turnover above the one million kuna mark was the preferred stock of holding company Adris [ZSE:ARDS2], also a blue chip. Its shares gained 1.88% to finish at 434 kuna after the company announced that it will propose to its shareholder to distribute a dividend of 15.5 kuna per share this year.
Saponia was the biggest gainer on Wednesday with a surge of 15.79% of its share price to 1,100 kuna as 720 shares changed hands.
Saponia and Zagrebacka Banka are constituents of the CROBEX, but not make part of the CROBEX10.
The ZSE's total trading turnover fell to 7.7 million kuna from 8.5 million kuna on Tuesday.
(1 euro = 7.555 Croatian kuna)
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