Just 26,000 TTSE stock units trade – Wednesday

Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Wednesday with moderate gains in the market indices while in 11 securities traded against 12 on Monday, 2 rose, 3 declined and 6 remained unchanged.
Republic Financial Holdings closed at 52 weeks’ high at $102.96. The market closed with a very modest 25,965 shares trading at a value of a mere $342,138 changing hands, compared to just 200,242 shares trading at a value of $1,592,512, on Monday.
The Composite Index lost 1.55 points on Wednesday to 1,236.35, the All T&T Index declined 0.99 points to 1,729.46, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.29 points to close at 99.87.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows market sentiment to be closely matched between advancing and declining stocks as the market closed with 6 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Gains| Republic Financial Holdings gained 10 cents and concluded at $102.76, after exchanging just 28 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL gained 2 cents and ended at $29.27, with 300 stock units changing hands.
Losses| Guardian Holdings lost 40 cents to close at $16.60, with 6,000 units trading, NCB Financial Group fell 4 cents to settle at $5.45, after exchanging 10,000 shares and Sagicor Financial to finish 4 cents lower and ended at $7.91, with 900 stock units changing hands.
Firm Trades| Clico Investments completed trading at $20.25, with 708 stock units changing hands, First Citizens concluded trading at $34.91, after exchanging 2,418 shares, JMMB Group closed at $1.75, after exchanging 1,400 shares, Massy Holdings finished trading at $47 after exchanging 1,167 shares, National Enterprises concluded trading at $9.50, with 1,000 stock units changing hands and National Flour closed at $1.80, with 2,044 units trading.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.