The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended October on the up but is down a significant 23,316.22 points for the month and 7 percent below the peak reached in early August.
At the close, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index climbed 3,949.97 points to close at 543,754.31, the JSE Index advanced 3,577.89 points to 495,187.93 and the JSE Financial Index gained 0.33 points to close at 133.41.
Trading closed with 44 securities changing hands in the main and US dollar markets with 21 stocks advancing, 11 declining and 12 traded firm. Main market activity ended with 40 securities trading 38,125,741 units valued at $101,388,568, in contrast to 29,380,399 units valued at $238,224,184 on Tuesday with 38 securities trading.
Wigton Windfarm dominated trading with 30 million shares for 80 percent of total volume, followed by Sagicor Select Funds with 3.25 million units accounting for 9 percent of the day’s trade and Carreras with 1.2 million shares for 3 percent of the market’s trade.
The market closed with an average of 953,144 units valued at $2,534,714 for each security traded, in contrast to 773,168 units valued at an average of $6,269,057 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 957,274 units valued at $13,330,997 and previously an average of 957,488 units valued at $13,947,047 for each security traded. The market closed out September with an average of 1,585,081 units valued at $14,071,562 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 19 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and just 1 with a lower offer. The PE ratio of the market ended at 17.1 with the main market ending at 17.9 times 2019 current year’s earnings.
In main market activity, Barita Investments lost $1 to settle at $70 trading 33,922 shares, Caribbean Cement ended at $77, after gaining 50 cents in exchanging 7,900 shares, Carreras ended with 1,216,915 shares trading and gained 90 cents to close at $8.80. Eppley Caribbean Property Fund added $2 and closed at $34 with 1,000 shares changing hands, Eppley gained 50 cents to close at $16, in swapping 100 shares, Grace Kennedy jumped $1.32 while exchanging 17,906 shares, to end at $67.49. Jamaica Broilers closed 85 cents higher at $34 with 13,729 shares changing hands, Jamaica Stock Exchange rose 58 cents to $29.50 in trading of 104,408 shares, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy rose to another record high with a gain of $5 to close at $260, after trading of 500 shares. Investors in the stock were responding to the 3 for 1 rights issue scheduled for November at $140 per share. NCB Financial declined to $203, after losing $2 in exchanging 27,999 shares, 138 Student Living closed 50 cents higher to end at $4 with 100 shares changing hands, PanJam Investment closed at $100, after rising $2.05 with an exchange of 20,250 shares. Proven Investments traded 515 shares and jumped $5 to end at $45, Sagicor Real Estate Fund rose 29 cents to $11.89 with an exchange of 30,100 shares, Salada Foods added 30 cents to settle at $29.30 after 2,832 shares crossed the exchange. 
Scotia Group gained $1.70 to close at $55 as investors swapped 22,215 shares, Seprod jumped $2.32 to close at $54, trading 47,960 units, Stanley Motta closed at $5.74 with a rise of 34 cents, after exchanging 46,937 shares. Sygnus Credit Investments closed 24 cents lower to end at $21.26 after trading 54,201 shares and Wisynco Group rose $1 exchanging 1,044,580 shares to close at $22 before the company reported a 53 percent rise in profit for the September quarter.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with 26,512 units valued at US$6,713 with the market index rising 9.18 points to close at 202.56. Productive Business Solution increased 2.5 cents and completed trading at 60 US cents exchanging 6,800 shares, Proven Investments lost 0.9 US cent trading 7,692 units to close at 27 US cents, Sterling Investments lost half a cent and closed at 2.2 cents US after trading 10,000 shares and Sygnus Credit Investments exchanged 2,020 shares to end at 14 US cents.
Archives for October 2019
Strong first quarter for Wisynco
Wisynco traded at $22 on Thursday.
According to brothers William and Andrew Mahfood, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer respectively, in their joint commentary accompanying the quarterly, “we had very strong growth in our core beverage brands as a result of increased demand and improved efficiencies in plant productivity. In addition, the strategic alliances between Worthy Park and St Mary’s Snacks along with increasing revenue from other portfolios contributed to drive revenues to new highs.”
The quarterly revenues are much higher than the $6.9 billion generated in the June quarter and profit of $694 million after-tax.
Wisynco brand Wata to benefit from 3 new production that is now in operation.
According to the directors, “the leveraging of our distribution system with the new portfolios, while driving revenue growth, favorably impacted our expense to sales ratio that declined to 22.5 percent of sales from the 25.6 percent for the first quarter of 2019. Selling, Distribution and Administrative expenses for the quarter increased by 18 percent to $2 billion above the $1.7 billion for the prior year and well below the increased revenues.
True Juice orange juice bottled by and distributed Wisynco
The Group had equity capital of $12 billion with loan funding of $2.6 billion but with cash and investment funds at $5.5 billion after the Group operations delivered cash inflows of $1.64 billion. Net Current Assets stood at $6.2 billion with current assets of $11.5 billion.
IC Insider.com projects earnings of $1.40 for the current fiscal year with revenues reaching just under $37 billion and $1.95 for 2021. The stock closed at $22 and now sells at a PE ratio of 15 times the current year’s earnings and is fairly valued currently and seems to hold good long-term growth potential.
Heavy Junior Market trading closes October
The Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Market closed October with heavy trading on Thursday with Derrimon Trading 31 million shares out of a total of 31,699,661 units amounting to $87,399,668 compared to 32,683,130 units valued at $145,214,995 on Wednesday.
The Market Index jumped sharply by 70.72 points to end at 3,410.51 but closed October down 122.76 points from the September close.
t the close, just 24 securities changed hands compared to 21 securities on Tuesday. Market activities resulted in the price of 12 securities rising, 5 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 1,320,819 units for an average of $3,641,653 in contrast to 1,556,340 units for an average of $6,915,000 on Wednesday. 
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 186,927 units valued at $788,734 and previously 142,388 units valued at $670,885 for each security trading. In contrast, September closed with an average of 954,574 units valued at $2,612,695 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 14 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial climbed $5.90 to settle at $39.90 with 203,100 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cream closed 35 cents higher at $4.25, with the trading of 3,214 stock units, Caribbean Flavours jumped $2.75 to settle at $14.75 with 4,600 shares changing hands. Caribbean Producers climbed 24 cents and exchanged 13,324 shares at $4.79, Consolidated Bakeries closed trading of 8,488 units and gained 5 cents to end at $1.80, Dolphin Cove climbed $1.98 to settle at $10.98 with a mere 100 shares changing hands, Elite Diagnostic gained 25 cents and exchanged 3,664 shares at $5.75. 
Fosrich closed with an increase of 1 cent at $4.71, with 8,000 stock units trading, GWest Corporation lost 6 cents in trading 7,500 units at $1.05, Honey Bun rose 20 cents in exchanging 1,202 shares at $6.60, Indies Pharma declined by 2 cents to settle at $3.10 after exchanging 38,826 shares. Knutsford Express traded 591 units and gained 25 cents to end at $10.85, Lasco Distributors fell 8 cents with 1,061 units crossing the exchange to close at $3.25, Lasco Financial ended 5 cents higher at $4.95, with 23,366 stock units changing hands. Limners and Bards closed 14 cents higher at $2.86, with 130,400 stock units crossing the exchange, Main Event lost 10 cents in trading 1,000 shares to close at $5.20 and Stationery and Office Supplies ended trading with 2,200 shares, after rising 40 cents to end at $12.45.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Strong JSE gain ahead of month end
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange recorded gains in the major market indices on Wednesday, ahead of the month-end, with moderately lower volume and value than on Tuesday.
At the close, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index climbed 2,643.80 points to close at 539,804.34; the JSE Index advanced 2,371.17 points to 491,610.04 and the JSE Financial Index gained 0.33 points to close at 133.41.
Trading closed with 41 securities changing hands in the main and US dollar markets with 15 stocks advancing, 18 declining and 8 traded firm. Main market activity ended with 38 securities trading 29,380,399 units valued at $238,224,184, in contrast to 36,170,897 units valued at $276,199,901 on Tuesday with 40 securities trading.
Wigton Windfarm dominated trading with 19.8 million shares for 68 percent of total volume, followed by Sagicor Select Funds with 4.4 million units accounting for 15 percent of the day’s trade and Barita Investments with 1.2 million shares for 4 percent of the market’s trade.
The market closed with an average of 773,168 units valued at an average of $6,269,057 for each security traded, in contrast to 951,866 units valued at an average of $7,268,418 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 957,488 units valued at $13,947,047 and previously an average of 967,004 units valued at $13,607,212 for each security traded.
The market closed out September with an average of 1,585,081 units valued at $14,071,562 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 11 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers. The PE ratio of the market ended at 16.6 with the main market ending at 17.2 times 2019 current year’s earnings.
In main market activity, Barita Investments lost $2.50 to settle at $71 trading 1,205,083 shares, Caribbean Cement ended at $77, after losing 39 cents and exchanging 29,927 shares, Eppley Caribbean Fund closed at $32 with a drop of $4 with 6,500 shares changing hands. Eppley gained $1 to close at $15.50, in swapping 200 shares, Grace Kennedy dropped $2.30 exchanging 5,729 shares, to end at $66.17, Jamaica Producers closed 39 cents higher to $22.90 with 29,021 shares changing hands, Kingston Wharves added $1.40, rising to $61.40 with 200 shares traded. Mayberry Investments lost 40 cents to close at $7.50, with 156,234 shares crossing the exchange, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy rose to a record $255, after adding $14 and trading of 546 shares. NCB Financial advanced to $205, after gaining $3 in swapping 228,860 shares, 138 Student Living closed 60 cents higher, in settling at $3.50 with 50,000 shares changing hands, PanJam Investment slid to $97.95, after losing $2.05 with 101,283 shares traded. Proven Investments traded 1,670 shares and lost $1 to end the day at $40, 
Sagicor Group lost $1 to close at $66, with 27,160 shares being exchanged, Sagicor Real Estate Fund rose 80 cents to $11.60 with an exchange of 106,463 shares, Salada Foods lost 30 cents to settle at $29 after 520 shares crossed the exchange. Scotia Group closed 30 cents higher at $53.30, in swapping 156,085 shares, Seprod lost 38 cents to close at $51.68, trading 21,160 units, Supreme Ventures closed at $25.15 with a loss of 84 cents, after exchanging 16,010 shares. Sygnus Credit Investments closed 50 cents lower to end at $21.50 after trading 11,934 shares and Wisynco dropped $1.13 exchanging 410,239 shares to close at $21.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with 143,392 units valued at US$64,655 with the market index losing 6.55 points to close at 193.38. JMMB Group 6% preference shares closed at US$1.01 after trading 40,688 shares, Proven Investments lost a fraction of 1 US cent trading 76,688 units to close at 27.9 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments exchanged 26,016 shares to end at 14 US cents, after gaining 1 US cent.
Trading jumps on Junior Market – Wednesday
The Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Market ended with heavy trading on Wednesday with six securities exchanging more than one million shares each leading to trading in 32,683,130 units valued at $145,214,995 compared to 1,069,455 units valued at $6,472,676 on Tuesday.
At the close, just 21 securities changed hands compared to 30 securities on Tuesday. Market activities resulted in the price of 9 securities rising, 11 declining and 1 remaining unchanged with the market index declining just 4.61 points to close at 3,339.79.
Trading ended with an average of 1,556,340 units for an average of $6,915,000 in contrast to 34,499 units for an average of $208,796 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 142,388 units valued at $670,885 and previously 92,061 units valued at $433,479 for each security trading. In contrast, September closed with an average of 954,574 units valued at $2,612,695 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 9 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial lost 21 cents in trading 10,807 shares to close at $34, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 1 cent at $1.90 with 101,818 stock units changing hands, Blue Power shed 50 cents in trading of 11,722 units at $6.60. Caribbean Producers ended trading with 1,885,712 shares, after rising 4 cents to end at $4.55, Elite Diagnostic declined by 50 cents to settle at $5.50, after 26,548 shares crossed the exchange. Everything Fresh lost 5 cents trading 174,082 shares to close at $1.20, Express Catering fell 20 cents in trading of 3,987 units at $6.30, Fosrich lost 6 cents exchanging 4,134 shares to close at $4.70, Fontana closed 40 cents higher at $7.70, with 535,172 stock units trading. General Accident climbed 23 cents and exchanged 30,879 shares at $8.30, 
Honey Bun declined by 20 cents to settle at $6.40, iCreate ended with a loss of 1 cent at 68 cents with 135,645 stock units changing hands, Indies Pharma ended trading with 2,186,278 shares, after rising 2 cents to end at $3.12. Jamaican Teas exchanged 1,539,506 shares, after rising 5 cents to end at $6.05, Lasco Distributors closed 8 cents higher at $3.33, with 11,400,136 stock units trading, Lasco Financial shed 20 cents in trading of 9,030 units at $4.90. Lasco Manufacturing ended market activity exchanging 11,775,157 shares to close at $5.03 after falling 2 cents, Limners and Bards climbed 16 cents and exchanged 153,520 shares at $2.72, SSL Venture closed trading of 16,919 units and gained 10 cents to end at $1.60 and Stationery and Office Supplies closed 5 cents higher at $12.05, with 41,224 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Falling TTSE stocks in spotlight – Wednesday
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange closed on Wednesday with 15 securities trading against 15 on Tuesday, with 3 stocks advancing, 5 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
At the close of the market, the Composite Index lost 8.91 points to 1,400.44. The All T&T Index declined 3.24 points to close at 1,755.85, while the Cross Listed Index shed 2.01 points to close at 141.60.
Trading ended with 375,891 shares valued $4,147,273, compared to 195,765 shares valued $3,121,985 shares on Tuesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 3 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Gains| First Citizens Bank closed with an increase of 29 cents and settled at $40.80, with 2,520 shares changing hands, Sagicor Financial ended trading of 1,052 stock units with a rise of 3 cents to close at $10.68 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL rose 1 cent in exchanging 3,143 units to close at $25.69.
Losses| Calypso Micro Index Fund lost I cent in trading 200 shares and closed at $15.75, Clico Investment Fund fell 4 cents to end at $24.06, with investors exchanging 29,967 stock units, First Caribbean International Bank closed with a loss of 45 cents and completed trading at $8.55, after exchanging 27,361 shares. 
Guardian Holdings shed 7 cents and completed trading at $18.35, with 200 units crossing the exchange and Republic Financial dropped $1.19 and ended at $122.06, with 235 shares crossing the exchange.
Firm Trades| Ansa Merchant Bank settled at $35.75, with 26 stock units changing hands, Grace Kennedy closed at $3.40, trading 57,991 units, National Flour completed trading at $1.49, with investors exchanging 20,000 shares. NCB Financial settled at $10.65, after exchanging 230,437 stock units, Scotiabank settled at $59.47, with just 5 units changing hands, Unilever Caribbean closed at $24.50, after exchanging 112 shares and West Indian Tobacco concluded trading at $105, with investors exchanging 2,642 stock units.
Prices of securities trading are those at which the last trade took place.
Gemini Man tapering off
Gemini Man starring Will Smith continues to pull in patrons at Palace Amusements’ four cinema houses this week, with 8 shows daily until Thursday, tapering off to 5 starting Friday.
The movie that also features Mary Elizabeth Winstead is enjoying its fourth week in all cinema houses twice per day but will drop to 5 showings per day commencing Friday this week. Maleficent Mistress of Evil with Angelina Jolie which opened on Friday, October 18 with 4 shows in all cinemas and was up to 7 showings last week Wednesday, is now down to 6 and will decrease on Friday to just three. Jokers which has had great success overseas started with 8 shows on October 4 and declined to 5 from October 9 to October 16 but was down to just 2 daily showings last week and continues with two shows on Wednesday and one show this Friday.
New at the movies last week were Black and Blue starring Naomie Harris and Tyrese Gibson, opening with seven daily shows in all cinemas and continuing with 6 on Wednesday but will be back to seven showings on Friday.
The Informer featuring Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike and Clive Owen that opened last week with six daily showings in 3 cinemas ended after just one week.
Joining the Palace Amusement line up on Wednesday, with 4 shows per day in the four cinemas houses, are – Downton Abbey the continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early 20th century, and Mary, the tale of a family looking to start a charter-boat business, buying a ship that holds terrifying secrets once out on isolated waters.
The legendary, Terminator in which Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future opens on Friday with two shows per day in each cinema.
7 straight loss for JSE main market
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange continued its negative move with 7 straight days of falling market index as the market posted modest losses on Tuesday on lower volume but higher value traded.
At the close, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index shed 349.46 points to close at 537,160.54, the JSE Index dipped 200.00 points to 489,238.87 and the JSE Financial Index slipped 0.87 points to close at 133.08.
At the close of trading, 40 securities changed hands in the main and US dollar markets with 23 advancing, 10 declining and 7 stocks traded firm. Main market activity ended with 38 securities trading 36,170,897 units valued at $276,199,901, in contrast to 48,237,597 units at $136,439,498 on Monday with 35 securities trading.
Wigton Windfarm dominated trading with 25.2 million shares for 70 percent of total volume, followed by Sagicor Select Funds with 6.4 million units accounting for 18 percent of the day’s trade and PanJam Investment with 1.2 million shares for 3 percent market share.
The market closed with an average of 951,866 units valued at an average of $7,268,418 for each security traded, in contrast to 1,378,217 units valued at an average of $3,898,271 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 967,004 units valued at $13,607,212 and previously an average of 961,280 units valued at $13,958,606 for each security traded. The market closed out September with an average of 1,585,081 units valued at $14,071,562 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers. The PE ratio of the market ended at 16.5 with the main market ending at 17.2 times 2019 current year’s earnings.
In main market activity, Berger lost 50 cents to close at $18 with 11,728 shares changing hands, Eppley Caribbean Fund ended at $36, with gains of 99 cents while trading 400 stock units, Eppley dropped 50 cents to settle at $14.50, in swapping 1,670 stocks, Grace Kennedy climbed $1.67 exchanging 45,651 shares, to end the day at $68.47. Kingston Wharves closed $2.59 higher to $60, with just 1,140 shares changing hands, Mayberry Investments rose 34 cents to $7.90, with 6,488 shares crossing the exchange, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy jumped $21 in trading a mere 100 shares to end at a record $241, NCB Financial gained $1.99 to close at $202, in swapping 66,638 shares. 
PanJam Investment gained 50 cents to settle at $100 with 1,199,725 shares trading, Proven Investments traded 2,281 shares in falling $1.40 to end at $41, Pulse Investments closed 53 cents higher to $4.78, with 79,211 shares changing hands. Sagicor Group closed at $67, after gaining 75 cents with an exchange of 46,273 shares, Seprod advanced by $1.56, settling at $52.06, trading 13,584 units, Supreme Ventures closed at $25.99 as the price rose 84 cents, after exchanging 937,485 shares and Sygnus Credit Investments closed 60 cents higher, ending at $22 trading 43,447 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with 717,516 units valued at over US$150,912 with the market index advancing 5.11 points to close at 199.93. Proven Investments rose 2 US cents trading 365,316 units to close at a 52 weeks’ high of 28 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments exchanged 352,200 shares, falling 0.99 of a US cent to end at 13 US cents.
Junior Market falters again – Tuesday
The Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Market Index declined by 30.21 points to close at 3,344.40 on Tuesday as 31 securities changed hands, with 16 rising, 9 declining and 6 remaining unchanged.
Trading settled with an exchange of 1,069,455 units valued at $6,472,675 compared to 928,669 units for $4,592,801 from 30 securities changing hands on Monday.
Trading ended with an average of 34,499 units for $208,796 for each security traded, in contrast to 30,956 units for an average of $153,093 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 92,061 units valued at $433,479 and previously 95,253 units valued at $445,940. In contrast, September closed with an average of 954,574 units valued at $2,612,695 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 8 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging closed trading of 32,060 units and gained 1 cent to end at $1.91, Blue Power ended market activity exchanging 23,680 shares to close at $7.10 after falling 70 cents, CAC 2000 fell $2.60 in trading 1,207 units at $12.50. Caribbean Cream ended with a fall of 35 cents in exchanging 1,858 shares to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $3.90, Caribbean Producers lost 29 cents in trading 41,684 shares to close at $4.51. Consolidated Bakeries traded just 150 stock units and gained 8 cents in closing at $1.75, Derrimon Trading exchanged 37,176 shares, after rising 5 cents to end at $2.50, Elite Diagnostic closed 19 cents higher at $6, after trading 16,662 stock units, Fontana lost 4 cents trading 163,454 shares in closing at $7.30. General Accident inched 1 cent higher in swapping of 35,491 units at $8.07, GWest Corporation climbed 6 cents in exchanging 2,823 shares at $1.11, Honey Bun closed with a rise of 30 cents at $6.60 after the swapping of 12,538 shares, iCreate added 1 cent and exchanged 535 shares to close at 69 cents. Indies Pharma fell 5 cents in trading 9,887 units at $3.10, Jamaican Teas lost 30 cents in closing at $6 with 74,100 shares changing hands, Jetcon Corporation traded 9,300 units and gained 9 cents to end at $1.99. 
Key Insurance climbed 10 cents and exchanged 2,100 shares at $3.10, Lasco Distributors dipped 15 cents in exchanging 11,083 units at $3.25. Lasco Financial closed trading of 22,570 units and gained 20 cents to end at $5.10, Limners and Bards closed trading of 54,518 units and gained 11 cents to end at $2.56, Main Event rose 19 cents in trading 1,000 units at $5.30, Paramount Trading had 4,312 units changing hands and gained 30 cents to end at $2.10. Stationery and Office Supplies closed trading of 14,258 units and gained 13 cents to end at $12 and SSL Venture climbed 5 cents and exchanged 4,831 shares at $1.50.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Falling TTSE stocks outdo risers – Tuesday
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange after closing on Monday resumed on Tuesday with 15 securities trading against 18 on Friday, with 2 stocks advancing, 5 declining and 8 remaining unchanged.
At the close of the market, the Composite Index lost 1.50 points to end at 1,409.35. The All T&T Index fell 0.36 points to 1,759.09, while the Cross Listed Index slipped 0.37 points to close at 143.61.
Trading ended with 195,765 shares valued $3,121,985, compared to 73,298 shares valued $1,836,526shares on Friday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 5 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Gains| First Citizens Bank advanced by 1 cent and settled at $40.51, after exchanging 1,775 shares and Republic Financial rose 33 cents to close at $123.25, after exchanging 2,232 shares.
Losses| Angostura Holdings lost 3 cents and ended at $16.02, after exchanging 2,000 shares, First Caribbean International Bank lost 5 cents and concluded trading 1,907 shares at $9 completed. NCB Financial lost 1 cent and settled at $10.65, with 133,046 stock units changing hands, Scotiabank dropped 28 cents and settled at $59.47, after exchanging 2,191 units and Trinidad & Tobago NGL lost 2 cents in exchanging 3,566 units to close at $25.68.
Firm Trades| Clico Investment Fund to finish at $24.10, with 24,132 units crossing the exchange, Guardian Holdings finished at $18.42 and ended with 8,839 units crossing the exchange, Massy Holdings concluded trading with a gain of $55 completed trading at $55.00, with 4,232 units. National Enterprises ended at $5.70, with 500 stock units changing hands, One Caribbean Media ended at $10, with 800 units changing hands. Trinidad Cement closed at $2 completed trading of 9,700 shares, Unilever Caribbean to finish at $24.5 settled at $24.50, with 100 units and West Indian Tobacco closed at $105 with investors exchanging 745 shares.
Prices of securities trading are those at which the last trade took place.
