The Slovenian subsidiary of the Italian banking group Unicredit has new leadership, with Lorenzo Ramajola recently taking over as the chairman and Mojca Kovač and Tsvetelin Minchev as board members. The management board of UniCredit Banka Slovenija now features six members and the chairman.

The SBI TOP index of blue chips on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange closed 0.9% higher at 1,162.62 points on Thursday, with the reinsurer Sava Re and the drug maker Krka faring the best, gaining 2.67% and 1.87%, respectively. The NLB bank stock accounted for a third of today's total turnover of EUR 1.48 million.

President Borut Pahor received on Thursday chair of the Economic and Social Council Mitja Gorenšček to talk about reviving social dialogue. On the latter's initiative, Pahor will host in the second half of August an informal talk with representatives of the government, employers and trade unions to look for ways to continue the dialogue.

Slovenia's ILO-compatible survey unemployment rate fell to 4.8% in June, down 0.2 percentage points from May and half a point down from June a year ago, show data released by the Statistics Office on Thursday.

The group Telekom Slovenije generated EUR 317.6 million in sales revenue in the first half of the year, down 1% from the same period in 2020. Net profit was up by 44% to EUR 21.3 million, Telekom said on Thursday.

Slovenia's pharma group Krka Group saw its net profit rise by 11% to EUR 177.4 million in the first six months on record sales revenue of EUR 808.6 million, according to unaudited data.

The SBI TOP index of blue chips on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange closed 0.78% higher at 1.152,30 points on Wednesday. Contributing the most to the overall trading volume of EUR 1.028m were the shares of the NLB bank and pharma company Krka.