The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange had an increase in the number of listings trading on Thursday with 18 securities changing hands against 14 trading on Wednesday.
Trading closed with the price of 5 rising, 4 declining and 9 remaining unchanged, leading to the Composite Index rising 0.03 points to 1,221.18, the All T&T Index adding 0.60 points to 1,694.89, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.08 points to close at 100.47.
The market ended trading of 674,102 shares at a value of $4,897,703, compared to 680,826 shares at a value of $23,759,560 changing hands on Wednesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 7 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains | Ansa Merchant finished trading with a rise of 23 cents, ending at $38.25, after exchanging 800 shares, Clico Investments gained 1 cent and settled at $19.51, with 85,380 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Financial rose 1 cent and settled at a 52 weeks’ high of $7.76, with 3,957 stock units changing hands, with the stock closing with the bid at $106 to buy 3,400 units. Trinidad Cement finished 5 cents higher at $2.75, after exchanging 4,500 shares and West Indian Tobacco concluded trading of 10,000 units and gained 28 cents to close at $89.
Stocks closing with losses| Guardian Holdings lost 2 cents and concluded an exchange of 5,300 units at $16.72, JMMB Group ended trading 2 cents lower at $1.70, after exchanging 14,732 shares, NCB Financial Group concluded trading with a loss of 1 cent at $5.74, after exchanging 8,000 shares and One Caribbean Media traded 500 shares with a loss of 11 cents to close at $12.
Stocks trading with no price change| Angostura Holdings settled at $15.76, with 1,000 stock units changing hands,First Citizens ended at $32.70, after exchanging just 644 shares, Grace Kennedy settled at $2.70, with 505,007 stock units changing hands, Massy Holdings completed trading at $47, after exchanging 12,000 shares, National Enterprises settled at $8.96, with 200 stock units changing hands, National Flour concluded trading of 3,400 units at $1.60, Point Lisas settled at $3.62, with 15,857 stock units changing hands, Prestige Holdings concluded market activity at $7.56, with 363 units and Trinidad & Tobago NGL ended at $29.25, after exchanging 2,462 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Jump in number of TTSE stocks trading – Thursday
October 11, 2018 by