October 2 (SeeNews) - The share indices on the Zagreb stock exchange (ZSE) fell on Wednesday, as telecommunication services provider Optima Telekom [ZSE:OPTE] led the blue-chip losers, bourse data showed.
Optima closed 2.26% lower at 6.50 kuna.
Zagrebacka Banka [ZSE:ZABA] paced the blue-chip gainers on Wednesday, appreciating 1.68% to 60.50 kuna.
Food and drug producer Podravka [ZSE:PODR] contributed the biggest portion of trading turnover among the blue chips on Wednesday, of 3.6 million kuna. The company's shares closed 0.64% lower at 463 kuna.
Podravka said earlier on Wednesday it disposed of 2,359 of its own shares, representing 0.033132% of the company's capital.
Confectionery producer Kras, which has been boosting ZSE's turnover over the past weeks, closed flat at 900 kuna in deals worth 2.2 million kuna in total.
On September 9, meat producer Braca Pivac said it plans to launch a joint buyout bid with local trading company Kras-ESOP for the remaining stake of 50.82% in Kras the two firms do not own among themselves yet. The company's shares were trading below the 400 kuna mark before the buyout plans were announced.
ZSE's total trading turnover rose to 38.7 million kuna ($5.7 million/5.2 million euro), from 27.4 million kuna on Tuesday.
The 25-share benchmark CROBEX index fell by 0.28% to 1,948.21 after dropping 0.50% in the previous trading session.
The narrower of the ZSE's two blue-chip indices, the CROBEX10, which tracks the leading companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, decreased a further 0.54% to 1,155.36 after losing 0.39% on Tuesday.
The fixed-income CROBIS index added 0.07% to 116.9703.
(1 euro = 7.41391 kuna)
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