Last year the Bratislava Stock Exchange registered a 132% year-on-year growth of its turnover, the stock exchange informed. The positive performance came despite a 38.7% y/y drop in the number of transactions, which amounted to 10,814 for the year. The increase of the turnover was on account of bonds trading, up by 143.3% and representing 99.8% of total turnover. Solid growth of mortgage activities, in our opinion, contributed mostly for the higher bonds volume on the market. The share turnover on the BCPB on the other hand exhibited a sharp fall to just SKK2.1 billion or 10 times lower than in 2004. The slide of share trading followed a number of companies delisting from the market with the entry of strategic investors as majority shareholders. The most traded company on the exchange – gas storage Nafta Gbely, announced its exit from the exchange in May last year.