Subdued trading on TTSE – Thursday

The Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange had a sedate Christmas eve on Thursday, closing with just 7 active securities. Activity ended with price of 1 stock rising, 1 declining and 5 remaining unchanged as 190,841 shares changed hands valued at $2,606,951.
The Composite Index ended with a rise of 0.17 points to 1,159.42, the All T&T Index gained 0.04 points to 1,947.58 and the Cross Listed Index gained 0.04 points to end at 48.85.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator had 5 stocks with bids higher than the last selling price and 5 stocks with offers that were lower.
Gains| Sagicor Financial traded at $6.10 with a 5 cent gain while 6,000 units changed hands.
Declines| The sole stock trading is Massy Holdings that suffered a decline of 1 cent to end at $61.47 for a 52 weeks’ low while trading only 10 units.
Firm Trades| Trading in First Citizens fell from the high level of 199,910 units on Wednesday, to 5,604 units on Christmas eve, to close at $35. Grace Kennedy had 18,000 units changing hands at $4, National Commercial Bank traded 100,000 shares at $2.05, Republic Financial Holdings, the new entity holding shares in Republic Bank, ended with 8,921 shares valued at $998,171 changing hands at $111.89 and Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed at $21 with 52,306 shares changing hands, valued at $1,098,426.