Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Friday with 11 securities trading against 14 on Thursday, leading to 5 advancing, 3 declining and 4 remaining unchanged.
At close of the market, the Composite Index fell 0.31 points to 1,352.80. The All T&T Index lost 0.18 points to 1,799.03, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.06 points to close at 122.31 as trading ended with 349,640 shares for $4,836,075, compared to 1,098,161 shares on Thursday valued at $8,401,452.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with no stock with higher bids or offer higher or lower than their last selling prices.
Stocks ending with gains| At the close of the market, Calypso Macro Index Fund jumped $2 and ended at $17, with 2,127 stock units changing hands, Guardian Holdings gained 5 cents and settled at $18.50, after exchanging 46,291 shares. Republic Financial Holdings rose 12 cents and ended at $121.12, with 4,682 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Financial increased 15 cents with 259,150 units trading to close at $9.15 and West Indian Tobacco climbed 57 cents and settled at $112, after exchanging 2,000 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| One Caribbean Media closed with a loss of 5 cents at $10.25, in trading with 500 units, Trinidad & Tobago NGL shed 50 cents to $27, after exchanging 20,539 shares and Trinidad Cement lost 1 cent and ended at $2.74, with 2,000 stock units changing hands.
Stocks closing firm| Clico Investments completed trading of 550 units at $23.06, First Citizens ended at $38.50, after exchanging 811 shares, NCB Financial Group closed at $8.41, with 6,440 stock units changing hands and Unilever Caribbean completed trading of 4,550 units at $26.30.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Activity picked up with a big improvement in trading resulting in one of the larger volume and value exchanged on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange in recent times but prices softened.
Grace Kennedy lost 5 cents and settled at $3.30, with 4,800 units changing hands. Guardian Holdings ended trading 5 cents lower to close at $18.45, after exchanging 74,388 shares, Massy Holdings dropped $1.50 and completed trading of 2,792 shares at $55.50, NCB Financial Group lost 4 cents to close at $8.41 in trading 10,623 shares. Sagicor Financial closed with a loss of 10 cents at $9, trading of 573,786 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL lost 50 cents and ended with 6,376 shares traded, at $27.50.

Scotiabank traded 4,000 shares and lost 32 cents to close at $63 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL lost $1.10 in trading 40,266 units to end at $29.
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Friday with trading took place in 17 securities against 12 on Thursday, with 6 advancing, 4 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
shares, Clico Investments shed 3 cents and settled at $23, with 80,145 units, Republic Financial Holdings declined $2.89 to close at $120.11 in trading 3,329 shares and West Indian Tobacco dropped $2 to $110, with 350 stock units changing hands.
First Citizens Bank gained $2 to end at 52 weeks’ high of $40, after exchanging just 424 shares. One Caribbean Media added 5 cents and completed trading of 16,000 shares at $10.30, Trinidad & Tobago NGL rose 50 cents in trading 11,555 units to end at $30 and West Indian Tobacco jumped $2 to a 52 weeks’ high of $112, with 940 stock units changing hands.
trading of 1,625 shares at $10.25, Sagicor Financial closed 16 cents lower and completed trading of 124 shares at $8.74 and Scotiabank concluded trading with a loss of 4 cents at $63.51, with 2,500 stock units changing hands.
West Indian Tobacco recovered the $3 lost on Monday to close back at the 52 weeks’ high of $110 on Tuesday, on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on a day when rising stocks outnumbered declining ones by a big margin.
Sagicor Financial finished trading with a rise of 10 cents to end at $8.90, after exchanging 38,894 shares, Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed with a gain of 10 cents and completed trading 3,405 units at $29.50 and West Indian Tobacco advanced $3 and ended at $110, with 260 stock units changing hands.



