SAA SIGNING IS EXPECTED TO BOOST DEVELOPMENT OF BOSNIAN STOCK MARKET

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (June 12,2008) - It is reasonable to expect that signing the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU would come as an incentive to the Bosnian market of securities,Director of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange Zlatan Dedic believes.

All such positive developments attract investors, and this is one of them, he argues.

According to Dedic, there has been a moderate positive trend on the market lately, so that in the past month the SASX index gained more than seven per cent, BIFX went up by more than three per cent. Optimism is slowly returning, which is encouraging, he said.
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