Witco had the largest dollar trade on the TTSE on Wednesday.
Trading closed with 11 securities changing hands, compared to 12 Tuesday. 5 stocks advanced, 5 declined and 1 remained unchanged resulting in an exchange of 723,552 shares valued at $21,761,282. On Tuesday’s 150,265 shares valued at $957,723 traded in contrast.
The Composite Index lost 0.21 points to 1,249.44, the All T&T Index slid 0.69 points to 1,832.21 but the Cross Listed Index gained 0.04 points to 89.40 with year to date gains of 14.37 percent.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 8 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
Gains| Guardian Holdings closed at a new 52 weeks’ high of $15.35 with gains of 5 cents trading 100 shares, but the it closed with a bid to buy 41,000 units at $15.89. JMMB Group added 1 cent to close at $1.20 exchanging 251,611 units valued at $301,602, Massy Holdings advanced $1, closing at $53 with 2,000 shares changing hands. Scotiabank closed at $58.75, adding 5 cents with 38,210 units being exchanged at a value of $2,244,636 and West Indian Tobacco closed at $127, a gain of 1 cent with an exchange of 110,000 shares valued at $13,969,997.
Losses| Clico Investment closed at $22.50, losing 6 cents and exchanging 184,833 shares valued at $4,168,335, First Citizens lost 1 cent to close at $32.49 with trades of 816 units, National Enterprises declined 10 cents, closing at $10.90 with an exchange of 52,824 shares valued at $578,143. Republic Financial Holdings closed at a 52 weeks’ low of $105.99 having lost 70 cents with 544 units changing hands and Scotia Investments closed 1 cent lower to $2.19 with 13,039 shares trading.Firm Trades| National Commercial Bank was unchanged at $4 with 69,575 units changing hands.
