Today, the Zagreb Stock Exchange continued its decline in stock prices, and consequently the value of the Crobex index, which decreased significantly by 4.12 percent to 2,662.68 points, marking its lowest level since the end of June 2006.
There was a slightly higher market liquidity compared to the past week. The regular turnover amounted to 96.8 million kuna, while inter-institutional trading in bonds generated an additional 103.3 million kuna in turnover. The most traded was the HT stock, which achieved over 20.6 million kuna in turnover, and whose price decreased further by 1.25 percent to 240.01 kuna, the lowest since its listing on the Exchange a year ago. Today’s closing price of HT shares is thus nearly 25 kuna lower compared to its price from the public offering. The SDA yesterday recorded supplementary shares of HT for citizens who were entitled to them, after which the state’s share in HT decreased from 5.2 percent to 3.6 percent, while the share of private and institutional investors increased from 36.8 to 38.4 percent.
The shares of Atlantska plovidba, whose price fell by 6.3 percent to 1,590 kuna, achieved 11.8 million kuna in turnover, while the shares of Ericsson Nikola Tesla and the Institute of Construction of Croatia (IGH) were traded for over 10 million kuna each. Meanwhile, the price of Ericsson shares decreased by 3.71 percent to 1,661 kuna, and IGH by 2.3 percent to 7,550 kuna. Among the only 11 shares that achieved million kuna turnover today, only the shares of Dalekovod ended the day slightly up by 0.31 percent, while the most significant decline was recorded by the shares of Uljanik plovidba – down by 8.86 percent. The price of INA shares also decreased today by 6.88 percent to 2,300 kuna, with less than 950 thousand kuna in turnover.
