4 stocks close at new high on TTSE

Guardian Holdings closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $16.75 on TTSE..

Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange closed on Tuesday with the two major indices falling, even as a number of stocks closed at 52 weeks’ high.
At the close, 6 stocks advanced, 5 held firm and 5 declined as 115,087 shares were traded at a value of $1,075,427 in contrast to Monday’s 1,192,408 shares valued at $3,543,220.
The Composite Index declined 3.11 points to 1,248.32, the All T&T Index fell sharply by 8.34 points to 1,822.26 and the Cross Listed Index gained 0.30 points to 90.46 with year to date gains of 15.72 percent.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 5 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
Gains| Clico Investment gained 9 cents to close at $22.59 trading 10,276 shares, Guardian Holdings closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $16.75, rising 24 cents with an exchange of 6,881 shares, JMMB Group added 6 cents, closing at a 52 weeks’ high of $1.28 with 5,776 shares changing hands. Sagicor Financial advanced 10 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $9.40 with trades of 18,760 shares, Praetorian Property closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $3 with gains of 15 cents and 2,000 units exchanged and Trinidad & Tobago NGL added 1 cent to close at $23.66 with 3,539 shares changing owners.
Losses| Ansa Merchant Bank lost 8 cents to close at $40.02 with an exchange of 347 units, One Caribbean Media closed at a 52 weeks’ low of $17, dropping $2.45 with a mere 185 units changing hands, Republic Financial Holdings closed 25 cents lower to a 52 weeks’ low of $103 with an exchange 1,548 shares. Scotia Investments lost 4 cents trading 59,817 units to close at $2.15 and Scotiabank declined $1.25 to $57.50 with 177 shares changing hands.
Firm Trades| Angostura Holdings closed at $15 with trades of 57 shares, Grace Kennedy traded unchanged at $2.63 with an exchange of 1,243 shares, Massy Holdings held firm at $53 trading 1,808 units. National Commercial Bank was unchanged at $3.97 with 2,418 shares changing hands and West Indian Tobacco closed trading at $127 with an exchange of 255 shares.

Trinidad stocks drop 6% in 2016

Trinidad Cement closed at a 52 weeks’ high on Friday.

Trinidad based companies lost nearly 6 percent of their value in 2016 as the country’s economy faced challenges during the year based primarily on the fall in the price of oil which led to the shortage of foreign exchange and slippage in the value of the country’s currency.
While the values of the Trinidad based company declined that for the wider Caribbean grew by nearly 58 percent and resulted in the Composite index rising but by only 4 percent. The market closed the year on a positive note, with the IC bid-offer Indicator | showing the strongest reading for the last two trading days of the year with just 2 stocks closing with bids that were lower than their last sale price.
Trading on Friday resulted in 11 securities changing hands compared to 13 on Thursday. Market activity ended with 5 stocks rising, 1 declining and 5 holding firm, with 262,813 shares being traded valued at $6,001,767 compared to 155,564 shares being traded valued at $1,446,576 on Thursday.
The Composite Index rose 3.37 points to end the year at 1,209.53, the All T&T Index gained 1.35 points to 1,834.23 with a year to date loss at 6 percent. The Cross Listed Index rose 0.71 points at 78.17 points with year to date gains of 57.89 percent.
IC bid-offer Indicator |The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 5 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Gains| Clico Investments Fund gained 1 cent in trading 665 units at $22.62, First Citizens Bank had 6,760 units trading with a gain of 25 cents to end at $35, JMMB Group traded 181,727 units to end at 90 cents with a 1 cent rise. National Commercial Bank added 6,999 shares to stocks that traded and gained 10 cents to close at $3 and Trinidad Cement traded 2,000 units with a rise of 5 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $4.40.
Losses| Grace Kennedy traded 730 shares but lost 1 cent to close at $2.67
Firm Trades| Massy Holdings contributed just 12,350 shares with a value of $642,200 to end at $52, Readymix West Indies closed trading with 5,000 shares trading at $10.99. Republic Financial Holdings with a volume of 44,125 shares valued at $4,784,915 changing hands, closed at $108.44, Trinidad and Tobago NGL traded 1,909 shares at $21 and Unilever Caribbean ended with 548 units trading, to end at $59.84.

6 stocks rise on TTSE – Wednesday

Sagicor Financial closed at a 52 weeks' high on Wednesday on the TTSE.

Sagicor Financial closed at a 52 weeks’ high on Wednesday on the TTSE.

Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Wednesday resulted in 12 securities changing hands compared to 7 on Friday. Market activity ended with 6 stocks rising, 2 declining and 4 holding firm, with 318,033 shares being traded valued at $2,502,324 compared to 414,785 shares being traded valued at $1,433,699 on Friday.
The Composite Index rose 2.04 points to 1,206.16, the All T&T Index gained 1.11 points to 1,832.67 with a year to date loss at 5.94 percent. The Cross Listed Index advanced by 0.40 to end at 77.46 points with year to date gains of 56.45 percent.
IC bid-offer Indicator |The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 4 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Gains| Clico Investments Fund traded 2,000 units at $22.61 after adding 1 cent, First Citizens Bank had 5,214 units trading with a gain of 44 cents to end at $34.99, National Commercial Bank traded 145,444 units valued at $421,788 and gained 3 cents to end at $2.90. Sagicor Financial Corporation gained 7 cents to end at TTSE sum 28-12-16a 52 weeks’ high of $7.73 with 800 shares changing hands, Scotiabank gained 7 cents in trading 8,737 shares at $58.85 and Trinidad Cement traded 10,220 units with a rise of 10 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $4.35.
Losses| Republic Financial Holdings with a volume of 8,193 shares valued at $888,448 being traded, closed with a loss of 1 cent at $108.44 and Trinidad and Tobago NGL fell 25 cents, in trading 6,476 shares at $21.
Firm Trades | Guardian Holdings traded 12,558 units to close at $12.65, JMMB Group traded 101,000 units to end at 89 cents, Massy Holdings contributed just 91 shares to end at $52 and LJ Williams ended with 17,300 B shares trading at 66 cents.

Trading levels rise

stocks Trading levels remained low on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Tuesday despite 11 securities changing hands compared to 8 on Monday. The market closed with 4 stocks advancing, 1 declining and 6 unchanged. Market activity resulted in 31,912 units valued at $644,182 changing hands compared to Monday’s 46,969 units valued at $702,598.
The Composite Index gained 0.43 points to 1,205.82 points, the All T & T Index advanced 0.80 points to 1,833.98 points with its year to date loss at 5.88 percent. The Cross Listed Index rose 0.01 point to 77.19 points with year to date gains of 55.91 percent.
IC bid-offer Indicator |The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 3 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| Ansa Merchant Bank, advanced 10 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $40.10 but with a mere 24 shares changing hands, Scotia Investments added 1 cent, closing trading at $1.98 with 888 shares changing owners. Scotiabank closed at $58.76, up 7 cents with only 14 shares being exchanged while Trinidad Cement advanced 7 cents to $4.08 with 7,637 changing hands.
TTSE sum 13-12-16< Strong> Losses| Guardian Holdings closed at $12.65, down 5 cents with 2,000 shares changing hands.
Firm Trades | Ansa McAL was unchanged at $66.50 with 177 shares changing owners, Clico Investments closed at $22.61 with an exchange of 130 shares and JMMB Group traded firm at 88 cents with 15,000 shares changing hands. Massy Holdings remained unchanged at $51 with 1,395 shares changing owners, Trinidad & Tobago NGL at $21.99 with 1,000 shares switching owners and West Indian Tobacco held firm at $127 with 3,647 shares changing hands, valued at $463,151.

No trading in TCL that’s poised to rise

TCL 2 Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Wednesday resulted in 14 securities trading compared to 13 on Tuesday. Trinidad Cement with a bid by Cemex to acquire majority of shares at $4.50 did not trade and ended with 12,432 units on the bid at $4.07 and 127,363 units being offered at $4.50. Trading ended with 3 stocks advancing, 2 declining and 9 remaining unchanged.
The market closed with 361,588 shares trading with a value of $3,622,735 in contrast to Tuesday’s volume of 197,320 valued at $1,996,726.
The Composite Index declined 0.01 point to 1,206.02 points, the All T&T Index gained 0.14 points to 1,834.52 points, lowering its year to date loss to 5.85 percent. The Cross Listed Index lost 0.02 points to 77.17 points with year to date gains slipping to 55.87 percent.
IC bid-offer Indicator |The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 7 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 10 with lower offers.
Gains| Clico Investment gained 5 cents to close at $22.60 with 75,378 shares changing hands at a value of $1,703,450, National Enterprises closed at $10.66, adding 1 cent with 500 shares trading and Scotia Investments closed at $1.83, a gain of 2 cents with 222 shares changing owners.
Losses| Ansa Merchant Bank closed at $40, a loss of 1 cent with 6,000 shares changing hands and Grace Kennedy was down 1 cent to $2.72 with 610 shares switching owners.
TTSE sum 7-12-16 Firm Trades| Angostura Holdings held firm at $15.50 as 75,000 shares changed hands with a value of $1,162,500, First Citizens Bank, with 4,975 shares being exchanged, closed at $34.93, and JMMB Group closed at 90 cents with 191,407 shares changing hands. Massy Holdings remained at $51 with 1,930 shares changing owners, National Commercial Bank closed trading at $2.87 and an exchange of 95 shares, National Flour Mills, with 2,151 shares switching owners, closed at $2.52. Prestige Holdings closed at $11 with an exchange of 181 shares, Sagicor Financial at $7.63 had 775 shares changing hands and Trinidad & Tobacco NGL closed at $22 with 2,364 shares changing owners.

CEMEX’s Trinidad Cement offer pushes stock

Trinidad Cement shares in play.

Trinidad Cement shares in play.

The announcement by CEMEX on Monday that one of its indirect subsidiaries will be presenting a bid to acquire shares to take the ownership of the Cemex group to just under 75 percent of the TCL, for TT$4.50 per share, to all Trinidad Cement shareholders in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago seemed to have helped to push the price of the stock in the day’s trading.
Market activity on Monday saw an increase in trading levels with volume and value rising strongly as 11 securities traded compared to 7 on Friday. At the close, 2 stocks advanced, 2 declined and 7 remained unchanged as 846,000 shares were traded with a value of $6,385,564 in contrast to Friday’s volume of 133,162 units valued at $610,132.
The Composite Index advanced 0.67 points to 1,207.32 points, the All T & T Index gained 1.27 points to 1,830.55 points, reducing its year to date loss to 6.05 percent. The Cross Listed Index was up 0.01 points to 78.07 points with year to date gains of 57.69 percent.
IC bid-offer Indicator |The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 6 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| Sagicor Financial added 1 cent to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $7.62 with 1,000 shares changing hands while Trinidad Cement closed with gains of 49 cents to close at $3.88 as 608,138 shares changed hands for a value of $2,124,450.
Losses| National Flour Mills lost 4 cents to close at $2.52 with 1,010 shares changing hands and Scotiabank lost 1 cent, closing at $58.69 with 59,715 shares exchanged for a value of $3,504,673.
TTSE sum 5-12-16 Firm Trades | Angostura Holdings traded firm at $15.50 with 62 shares changing hands, Ansa McAL closed at $66.50 with 73 shares changing hands, Clico Investment, with 4,187 shares switching owners, closed at $22.55, and FirstCaribbean International Bank held firm at $8.50 with 62,210 shares changing hands with a value of $528,785. JMMB Group closed with 109,385 shares changing hands at 90 cents, Massy Holdings remained unchanged at $51 with 120 shares changing owners and West Indian Tobacco closed at $127 with 100 shares changing hands.

Moderate trading on TTSE

TTstocks Trading on the Trinidad and Tobago Exchange closed on Monday with 10 securities changing hands, down from 13 on Friday, 1 of which advanced, 2 declined and 7 traded unchanged.
Market activity resulted in 1 stock closing at 52-weeks’ highs and one at a 52 weeks’ low.
Trading activity closed with 87,638 shares changing hands with a value of $556,559 compared to Friday’s volume of 510,441 with a value of $8,337,500.
The Composite Index advanced 0.08 points to 1,181.51 points, the All T & T Index lost 0.15 points to close at 1,804.46 points, 7.39 percent down year to date and the Cross Listed Index gained 0.04 points to close at 74.88 points to be up 51.24 percent for the year to date.
IC bid-offer Indicator |The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 5 stocks with bid higher than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
TTSE sum 14-11-16 Gains| Sagicor Financial gained 5 cents to close at a 52 weeks high of $7.25 with 3,000 shares changing hands.
Losses|One Caribbean Media lost one cent to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $19.99 with 250 shares changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL lost 15 cents to close at $22.55 with 10,549 shares changing hands.
Firm Trades | Clico Investment Fund closed at $22.60 with 885 shares changing hands, Ansa Merchant Bank closed at $40.01 with 2,054 shares changing hands, First Citizens Bank with 1,652 changing hands, closed at $33, Grace Kennedy with 100 shares changing hands, closed at $2.55. JMMB Group ended with 4,048 shares changing hands and closed at 91 cents, Scotia Investments closed at $1.81 with 65,000 shares changing hands and West Indian Tobacco closed at $126.95 with 100 shares changing hands.

First Citizens trades $6.7M on TTSE

First Citizens had the  largest value traded on TTSE on Friday.

First Citizens had the largest value traded on TTSE on Friday.

Trading on the Trinidad and Tobago Exchange closed on Friday with First Citizens having the largest value of shares trading as the market closed with 13 securities changing hands, up from 10 on Thursday, 2 of which advanced, 2 declined and 9 traded unchanged on a day when 1 stock ended at 52-week’s high.
Trading activity closed with 510,441 shares changing hands with a value of $$8,337,500, in contrast to Thursday’s volume of 168,658 units valued at $4,011,086.
The Composite Index advanced 1.01 points to 1,182.43 points, the All T & T Index gained 2.12 points to close at 1,804.61 points to be down 7.38 percent year to date and the Cross Listed Index dipped 0.01 points to close at 74.84 points and is up 51.16 percent for 2016.
IC bid-offer Indicator |The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 3 stocks with bid higher than their last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
Gains| Angostura Holdings gained 1 cent to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $16.01 with 2,000 shares changing hands and Guardian Holdings gained 45 cents to close at $13 with 3,994 shares changing hands.
< Strong> Losses| Grace Kennedy traded 192,759 shares valued at $491,577 but lost 2 cents in closing at $2.55 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL slipped 1 cent to close at $22.70 with 500 shares trading.
TTSE sum 11-11-16 Firm Trades | Ansa McAl closed at $62 with 2,000 shares changing hands, Ansa Merchant Bank ended with 46 shares changing hands at $40.01, Clico Investment Fund closed at $22.60 with just 45 shares changing hands with a value of $896,994, First Citizens traded 201,792 shares valued at $6,659,136 to close at $33. First Caribbean International Bank closed at $8.50 with 95,736 shares with a value of $813,754 changing hands, JMMB Group closed at 91 cents with 1,841 shares changing hands, Massy Holdings closed at $50.99 with 1,310 shares trading, Sagicor Financial Corporation closed at $7.20 with 7,995 shares changing hands and Scotiabank closed at $58.74 with 423 shares changing hands.

First Citizens recovers some ground – Friday

Stocks First Citizens Bank was the largest mover on Trinidad and Tobago Exchange when trading ended on Friday, with the price that dropped $3.93 on Thursday, recovering 50 cents with 200 units trading to end at $31.50. Elsewhere trading ended with 9 securities changing hands, down from 11 on Thursday.
Trading activity closed with 4 stocks rising while 3 declined and 2 remained unchanged as 522,024 shares valued at $1,246,175 changed hands, compared to 1,593,090 shares valued at $2,604,191 on Thursday as 2 stocks closed at new 52 weeks’ high.
The market closed with sharp movements in the indices. The the Composite Index advanced by 2.95 points to close at 1,167.20. The All T&T Index closed with a gain of 4.59 points to 1,802.05, down 7.52 percent for 2016 and the Cross Listed Index rose 0.18 points to 71.03 points and is up 43.47 percent year to date.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 5 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| JMMB Group gained 4 cents and closed at a 52 weeks’ high of 84 cents with 413,232 units for a value of $ 339,850, switching ownership. Grace Kennedy contributed 1,420 shares and rose 3 cents in trading, to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $2.60 and Trinidad Cement gained 20 cents with 81,777 shares valued at $326,537 changing hands to close at $4.
TTSE sum 21-10-16 Losses| Guardian Holdings lost 1 cent in trading 1,447 shares, the price closed at $12.60, National Commercial Bank ended with 290 shares changing hands with the price closing with a loss of 2 cents at $2.58 and Trinidad and Tobago NGL lost 3 cents in trading 16,200 shares with a value of $381,495 changing hands at $23.55.
Firm Trades| Clico Investment Fund closed with 7,430 shares changing hands at $22.60 and Massy Holdings ended with 325 shares changing hands at $51.50.

5 rise 3 fall on TTSE – Friday

FirstCaribbean  traded at a new 52 weeks' high on Friday.

FirstCaribbean traded at a new 52 weeks’ high on Friday.

Trading activity on the Trinidad and Tobago stock market ended on Friday with more securities trading at a much higher value than on Thursday. Trading ended with 738,889 shares valued at $13,252,432 changing hands, compared to 1,086,613 shares valued at $3,846,767 on Thursday.
The market closed with modest movements in the indices and ended with 5 stocks gaining, 3 declining and 6 remaining unchanged as 14 securities traded.
The Composite Index rose 6.44 points to close at 1,171.59, the All T&T Index gained 1.68 points to close at 1,819.56 and the Cross Listed Index grew by 1.53 points to 69.82 points.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Gains| Ansa Merchant Bank traded 200,000 units for a value of $8,002,000 and gained 1 cent to end at $40.01, Firstcaribbean International Bank ended trading 5,000 shares and closed with a rise of 31 cents at a 52 weeks’ high of $7.65. JMMB Group gained 2 cents to end with 100,000 shares changing hands to close at a 52 weeks’ high of 73 cents, Praetorian Property Mutual Fund ended with 87,800 shares changing hands to close at $2.65 after rising 5 cents and Trinidad Cement had 7,300 shares changing hands and rose 25 cents to close at $3.50.
Losses| Asna McAl traded 15,000 shares valued at $940,200 and lost 2 cents to end at $62.68, TTSE sum 7-10-16Calypso Macro Index Fund dropped 1 cent while trading 20,000 units valued at $439,725 to end at 52 weeks’ low of $21.99 and Guardian Holdings traded 13,540 shares with the price closing at $12.60 after falling 2 cents.
Firm Trades| Agostini’s traded just 70,556 shares valued at $1,220,619 to end at $17.30, Clico Investment Fund closed with 4,955 shares changing hands to end at $22.60, Massy Holdings ended with 7,668 shares with a value of $398,733 changing hands to end at $52. National Commercial Bank ended with 175,370 shares being traded for $457,800 with the price closing at $2.60, Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed at $23.65 with 20,925 units changing hands and Unilever traded 10,775 shares valued at $646,500 at $60.