March 15 (SeeNews) - The share indices of Bosnia and Herzegovina's two stock exchanges, in Sarajevo and Banja Luka, closed mixed on Friday, compared to the week-earlier levels, bourse data showed.
On the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE), the 10-share benchmark SASX-10 equity index rose 0.17% on a weekly basis, to close at 944.11 points on Friday. The broader SASX-30 index, which is composed of the 30 most liquid stocks on the SASE, went down 0.64% to finish at 1,868.31 points.
The SASE index tracking investment funds, the BIFX, ended the week at 669.83 points, unchanged compared with the end of the previous trading week.
The Islamic stock index SASX-BBI, launched by the SASE and Bosna Bank International (BBI), added 0.13% to 10,613.09 points.
SASE’s turnover rose to 1.2 million marka ($668,146/613,550 euro) this week from 549,285 marka last week, as a total of 92,029 shares changed hands in 71 transactions.
Pharmaceuticals producer Bosnalijek [SAJ:BSNLR] was the most traded company this week, with a turnover of 200,380 marka, as its shares increased to 20 marka on Friday from 19.38 marka at the end of the previous trading week.
The SASE is based in the Federation, one of two autonomous entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina. The BLSE is based in the other entity, the Serb Republic.
The benchmark index of the BLSE, the BIRS, dropped 1.15% this week to close at 948.35 points on Friday.
BLSE's total trading turnover plunged to 2.8 million marka this week from 42.5 million marka last week, as 109 transactions were carried out.
State-controlled electricity distributor Elektro Doboj [BANJ:ELDO-R-A] generated the largest trading turnover, of some 42,259 marka, on the BLSE's official market this week. The company's shares closed at 1.54 marka on Friday, down 6.10% compared with the end of the previous week.
(1 euro = 1.956 marka)