Shares sales

On one day alone a record level of 1.3 million shares changed hands with one single transaction accounting for as many as 1.2 million stocks. The buyer paid zł.73.1 per share and the value of the transaction was close to zł.90 million. Investors' interest in Bank Handlowy shares increased in June after the bank agreed that it will payout the whole of its 2004 profit and part of its capital - totaling zł.1.56 million - in September. The bank's majority shareholder is Citigroup, which owns 75% of the shares.