The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange closed the first day of October on a positive note with 16 securities trading against 17 on Monday, resulting in 8 gaining, 1 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
At the close of the market, the Composite Index rose 3.26 points to end at 1,404.01. The All T&T Index gained 1.05 points to 1,7447.23 while the Cross Listed Index rose 0.76 points to close at 143.82.
Trading ended with 459,866 shares at $6,026,691, compared to 360,171 shares at $7,710,531 on Monday.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 2 stocks closing with bids higher than the last selling prices and just one with a lower offer.
Gains| Calypso Micro Index Fund traded 200 shares and rose 25 cents to end at $15.75, CinemaOne jumped 70 cents and ended at $8, with 250 stock units changing hands, Guardian Holdings added 1 cent and settled at $18.16, with 4,016 stock units trading. Massy Holdings rose 1 cent and settled at $54.51 after exchanging 49,050 shares, NCB Financial gained 5 cents and ended at $10.55, with investors exchanging 3,790 shares. Sagicor Financial closed with an increase of 5 cents to settle at $10.20, after trading 22,363 shares, Trinidad Cement rose 4 cents and settled at $2.04, with 4,000 units crossing the exchange and Trinidad & Tobago NGL recovered 50 cents exchanging 6,900 units to close at $25.50.
Losses| First Citizens Bank dropped 1 cent and ended at $40.15, with 11,150 stock units trading.
Firm Trades | Clico Investment Fund ended at $24.10, after swapping of 48,645 shares, JMMB Group settled at $2.10, with 286,905 units crossing the exchange, National Flour settled at $1.57, after swapping of 1,360 shares. One Caribbean Media completed trading of 17,600 units at $10, Republic Financial ended at $121.85, with 3,133 units trading, Scotiabank closed at $58.52, with 734 stock units changing hands and Unilever Caribbean ended at $25, with 20 units trading.
Prices of securities trading are those at which the last trade took place.