the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange saw another day of mostly declining prices on Wednesday as 7 stocks fell and only 3 gained in trading and 5 remained unchanged. Activity ended with 15 active securities comprising 206,838 shares changing hands valued at $7,138,227. A total of 3 stocks closed at 52 weeks’ low and 1 at a 52 weeks’ high.
At the close, the Composite Index ended with a fall of 1.54 points to 1,160.59, the All T&T Index fell 2.99 points to 1,949.96 and the Cross Listed Index slipped just 0.01 points to 48.84.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator had 4 stocks with bids higher than the last selling price and 7 stocks with offers that were lower.
Gains| First Citizens Bank gained 1 cents while 150 shares changed hands, at $34.99, Guardian Holdings traded 10,493 shares with a gain of 3 cents to end at $13.10 and Unilever rose 5 cents with 1,146 units changing hands at a 52 weeks’ high of $68.25.
Declines| Agostini’s traded 18,360 shares with a value of $314,679 but lost 20 cents, to end at a 52 weeks’ low of $17, Massy Holdings traded 80,589 units with a value of $4,958,715 but lost 7 cents to end at a 52 weeks low of $61.53. National Enterprises closed with 2,510 shares changing hands, lost 2 cents, to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $16.37, Sagicor Financial lost 1 cent to close with 200 shares changing hands at $6.15. Scotiabank with 3,615 shares closed at $61.99, Trinidad and Tobago NGL slipped 11 cents in trading 1,500 units to close at a 52 weeks low of $21 and West Indian Tobacco suffered a loss of 22 cents to close at $126 with 6,006 shares valued at $758,092 changing hands.
Firm Trades| Clico Investments traded 18,172 units valued at $413,417 to close at $22.75, National Commercial Bank ended with 39,202 units changing hands at $2.10, National Flour had 8,995 shares changing hands, to close at $2.70, One Caribbean Media traded 50 shares at $22 and Trinidad Cement closed at $4.20 with 15,850 shares changing hands.