The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended trading on Tuesday with slightly more securities trading than on Monday and with much more prices rising than falling leading to a rise in market indices.
Trading ended with 14 securities changing hands against 15 on Monday leading to 6 advancing, 1 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
Market activity resulted in 533,003 shares at a value of $22,897,749 trading, compared to 276,320 shares valued at $4,320,119 changing hands, on Monday.
At close of the market the, Composite Index the Composite Index rose 0.62 points on Tuesday to 1,244.60, the All T&T Index gained 1.36 points to 1,727.96, while the Cross Listed Index eased by 0.02 points to close at 102.37.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows the market continuing to be weak as it closed with 3 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Gains| Clico Investments gained 4 cents and completed trading at $20.15, with 11,102 units, First Citizens finished trading with a gain of 1 cent and concluded market activity at $35, after exchanging 17,912 shares, Grace Kennedy closed with an increase of 3 cents and completed trading at $3.08, with 1,760 units, Republic Financial Holdings jumped 92 cents to end at $102.63, with 200,798 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Financial ended 5 cents higher and completed trading at $7.95, with 4,000 units and Trinidad Cement concluded trading and rose10 cents to end at $3, with10,983 shares changing hands.
Losses| First Caribbean International Bank was the sole stock declining and closed with a loss of 1 cent at $8.88, after exchanging 50,560 shares.
Firm Traded| Angostura Holdings ended at $15.75, with 5,859 stock units changing hands, Ansa Merchant settled at $40, after exchanging a mere 28 shares, JMMB Group ended at $1.75, with 155,096 stock units changing hands, NCB Financial Group concluded the day’s activity at $5.50, after exchanging 68,752 shares, Scotiabank settled at $64.25, after exchanging 134 shares, Trinidad & Tobago NGL completed trading at $29, with 5,569 units and Unilever Caribbean endded trading at $32, with an exchange of 450 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
6 stocks 1 fell on TTSE – Tuesday
May 22, 2018 by