TTSE: 52 weeks high for 4 stocks

September 4, 2013 by

Wednesday, 4th September 2013 | The market activity resulted in four stocks hitting 52 weeks highs. These are Angostura Holdings closed at $9.51 but trading as high as $9.54 in exchanging 1,560 units; Unilever Caribbean gained 9 cents to end the day at $55.40, a new 52 weeks high as 838 units changed hands; National Enterprises traded at a new 52 weeks high of $16.01, up a cent on the day while trading just 500 units, the stock closed with a bid at $16.05 for just 50 units. Republic Bank traded 2,253 units at $110.02 up a cent, a new 52 weeks high.

Trading picked up on the Trinidad resulted from trading in 14 securities of which 5 advanced, 2 declined and 7 traded firm as 557,106 units changed hands valued at $8,569,826.

Stocks with reasonable volumes trading are Grace Kennedy with 200,415 shares valued at $661,370; Trinidad Cement 162,126 shares valued at $388,483 lost 10 cents to close at $2.30; ANSA McAL 67,392 shares with a value of $4,466,742; Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7,100 shares valued at $3,550. Clico Investment Fund posted a volume of 106,466 shares valued at $2,290,182, the price advanced by 1 cent to end at $21.51.

TTSESept4Prestige holdings exchanged 2,665 units and closed firm at $9.35; Scotia Bank traded 1,924 units firm at $70.01 and One Caribbean Media 1,602 firm at $18.02. West Indian Tobacco traded 1,188 units at $117.05.

IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows that bid for 1 stock was higher with 3 stocks having offers lower than their last selling price.

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FX: All Tuesday’s rates up

September 3, 2013 by

Tuesday, 3rd September 2013 | US$34,553,830 was purchased by dealers as the buying rate rose by 34c to an average of $101.49 and dealers sold US$32,447,951 at $102.137, an increase of 3 cents, the Canadian was purchased at $95.289 up 42 cents for C$923,276 while C$874,494 was purchased at 78 cents higher than Monday’s rate to close at $97.632. The British Pound traded at $156.806, an increase of 84 cents as £1,352,743 was purchased and £853,085 was sold for $159.189, an increase of 21 cents.

The equivalent of US$37.85 million was purchased and $34.85 million sold bettering yesterday’s take.

Dealers purchased the US dollar as high as $102.90 at 10 cents higher than on Monday and the bought as low as $84.17 which was the same rate as Monday’s low. The US dollar was sold as high as $107.89, lower by 88 cents than the rate at the close of Monday and sold as low as $ 99.35 reflecting a $15.31 increase.

FX_TRADE+Currency+Sep3The Canadian dollar was bought as high as 97.35, off 5 cents and remained unchanged for the lowest buying rate at $78.27; the highest selling rate came in at $101.01 down by 64 cents and 10 cents was added to the lowest selling price, which closed at $94.40.

FX_TRADE+HighLow+Sep3The Pound gained all round with the highest buying rate closing at $159.95, which is 65 cents more than on Monday and lowest buy rate climbed 79 cents to end at $129.23. The highest rate that sales took place at is $166.60 up $1.02 and the lowest rate came in at $154.45 up $1.55

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JSE: Advancing stocks hit decliners

September 3, 2013 by

Tuesday, 3rd September 2013 | Unlike Monday when trading levels were very moderate, trading picked up on Tuesday with 9 million units changing hands valued at $41.6 million.

Proven Preference shares traded 4 million units valued at $20.4 million as the stock closed firm at $5.09; Scotia Bank traded as high as $23.49 but closed down at $22. These movements were the main factors driving the two main indices up sharply at the close. Indications are that the price indices could fall quite a bit when trading closes on Wednesday unless a stock such as NCB picks up appreciably in price. The all Jamaica index which nose dived 1,051.58 jumped 1,621.05 today to end up at 85890.59, while the main market index that slipped 597.66 on Monday was up sharply by 921.32 to 84,363.57. The junior market index bucked the positive trend by falling 0.88 to close at 782.37. Trading resulted in 25 securities exchanging ownership of which 10 advanced, 3 declined and 13 traded firm.

Trades today with reasonable volumes were Carreras with 24,051 to close at $46.40, an increase of 40 cents; Jamaica Broilers Group accounted for 1,533,057 valued at $7.97 million to close 6 cents up at $5.20; Jamaica Producers 14,260 to close at $18.25; Kingston Wharves 15,014 units and closed at $7; Mayberry Investments contributed 33,386 was firm at $2.60. National Commercial Bank 278,547 units closed firm at $18.50 as it accounted for $5.15 million of the total value traded; Sagicor Investments 83,000 units at $16.55 at the close, down 5 cents; Sagicor Life Jamaica 17,201 closed firm at $8.16 and Scotia Group 7878,700 units traded resulting in the price rising 55 cents to end of trading at $22. Having traded as high as $23.49 for a value of $18.3 million, the bulk of buying was conducted by Scotia Investment for clients.

JSEIndicesSept3Junior market | Trading picked up on Tuesday with 8 stocks changing hands in this segment of the market. Jamaican Teas which traded a million shares at $4.40 exchanged another million units today with the price closing firm at $4.40 with a value of $4.4 million; Blue Power gained 6 cents to close at $9.28 with 11,124 units; Caribbean Producers put in 308,00 units while trading firm at $2.03.  Lasco Distributors traded 143,610 units up 5 cents to close at $1.50; Lasco Financial Services added 29,040 in trading at $1.44 for an increase of 4 cents; Lasco Manufacturing accounted for 415,241 firm at $1.62 up 6 cents and investors moved 256,036 units of Paramount Trading through the market as the price closed firm at $3.30.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows that bids for 6 stocks were higher with 2 stocks having offers lower than their last selling price. This is the second day in a row that this indicator has been strong and could mean that the market is once more ready to move upwards.

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TTSE: Buyers back off TCL

September 3, 2013 by

Tuesday, 3rd September 2013 | Trinidad Cement declined again today, this time by 10 cents, as the stock closed at $2.41 after trading 33,065 shares. The stock closed with 707,519 shares on offer at $2.40 without any stock posted to buy at the end of trading. The stock seems to have more of a price fall to go before it settles down again.

Market activity resulted from trading in 12 securities of which 1 advanced, 2 declined and 9 traded firm with 468,390 shares changing hands valued at $4.99 million.

Other stocks to trade in reasonable volumes include: National Flour Mills with 171,405 shares valued at $128,554 as it traded firm at 75 cents; National Enterprises 70,000 shares valued at $1,120,000 traded firm at $16. Jamaica Money Market Brokers contributed 65,300 shares with a value of $32,650 and the price holding firm at 50 cents. At the end of trading there were bids for 301,539 units at 43 cents and 190,111 to sell at 50 cents. Sagicor Financial Corporation added 59,274 shares valued at $406,027 trading firm at $6.85. Neal & Massy traded 4,500 units firm at $55.99, Point Lisa lost a cent to close at $3.74 but with just 1,000 units changing hands; Republic Bank traded 17,075 units valued at$187,421 firm at $110.01; Scotia Bank lost a cent to $70 with 991 units.

TTSESept3Clico Investment Fund, in posting a volume of 45,400 shares valued at $976,116, remained firm at $21.50.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows that bid for 1 stock was higher with 3 stocks having offers lower than their last selling price.

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FX: Unusually low purchases

September 2, 2013 by

Monday, 2nd September 2013 | Trading for the first day of the week and month of September was unusually low for a Monday, but the heavy trading on Friday when US$53.8 million was purchased and US$39.65 million was sold may have robbed the market of much activity as just US$23.27 million was purchased with US$28.4 million sold.

Authorised dealers purchased US$19,593,289 at a buying rate of $101.1463 down 50c from Friday’s closing rate and sold US$26,278,288 at an average of $102.109 up 3c at the end of the day. The buying rate for the Canadian dollar fell $1.24 to close at $94.8671 as C$1,009,449 was purchased and sold C$515,019 at an average of $96.8504 down 97c. £1,562,581 was purchased at an average of $155.9639 representing a decline of $1.61 for the day and sale of £776,054 took place at an average of $158.981 up 44c.

FX_TRADE+Currency+Sep2There was much variation in the highest and lowest buying and selling rates amongst the three main currencies. The highest buy rate for the US dollar fell by 5c to end at $102.80, while the lowest was up 13c at $84.17 and selling was as high as $108.77 up 91c, while the lowest fell 13c to $84.04.

In the case of the Canadian dollar, the buy rate at its highest dropped $1.10 to $97.40 and the lowest fell 33c to $78.27 while selling took place as high as $101.65 with no change at the end and the lowest slipped 15cto $94.30.

FX_TRADE+HighLow+Sep2The British Pound traded as high as $159.30 buying with the rate increasing by 30c, the lowest increased by $28.44 to end at $128.44 while the highest selling rate moved up by $4.58 to $165.58, and the lowest increased by 75c to close at $152.90.

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JSE: Manipulation seems at play

September 2, 2013 by

Monday, 2nd September 2013 | Trading levels were very moderate on the first trading day of September with 1.7 million units changing hands valued at $11.4 million, making it one of the worse days for the market. The all Jamaica index dropped 1,051.58 to end down at 84,269.54 while the main market index slipped 597.66 to 84,442.25. The junior market index also fell by 9.17 to close at 783.25.

In today’s trading, 21 securities traded of which 4 advanced, 7 declined and 10 traded firm. The run up in the prices of some stocks on the last two trading days of August and the sharp fall on Monday suggest that some interested parties manipulated prices for portfolio purposes. With the objective achieved, prices have fallen back at the start of the new month.

Trades with reasonable volumes were Caribbean Cement with 269,030 to close at $2; National Commercial Bank 204,143 units at $18.5o, Sagicor Investments 83,382 to close at $16.60; Sagicor Life Jamaica 33,103 units closing at $8.16 and Scotia Group just 16,198 unit for the price rise to $21.45.

JSEIndicesSept2Junior market trading was light with only 4 stocks trading and with only Jamaican Teas recording any volume to speak of with a million shares trading at $4.40 up 38 cents. Dolphin Cove traded 10,161 units and dropped to $8 at the close down 30 cents.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows that bids for 8 stocks were higher with 2 stocks having offers lower than their last selling price.

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TTSE: Trinidad Cement down 44 cents

September 2, 2013 by

Monday, 2nd September 2013 | The Trinidad stock market saw trading in 432,177 shares valued at $2,809,739 in Monday’s trading as 12 securities traded of which 1 advanced, 3 declined and 8 traded firm.

Trinidad Cement, last week’s big winner, led the market with 244,137 shares changing hands for a value of $638,206 as the stock shed 44 cents to close with the last traded price at $2.50. The stock closed the day with an offer of 525,277 shares at $2.50 and no stock on the bid to buy as profit taking sets in due to the stock climbing so far in such a short time frame.

Angostura Holdings with a volume of 64,212 shares accounted for $610,139 in value. National Enterprises contributed 40,000 units with a value of $640,000. National Flour Mills added 37,408 shares valued at $28,056. Sagicor Financial Corporation added 15,000 shares firm to end at $6.85, Republic Bank traded 1,800 units firm at $110.01 and Scotia Bank chipped in with 1,050 at $70.01 up a cent.

TTSESept2Clico Investment Fund posted a volume of 23,420 shares valued at $503,654 as the price remained firm at $21.50 the last selling price.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows that bid for 1 stock was higher with 3 stocks having offers lower than their last selling price.

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FX: Trading ends month positively

August 30, 2013 by

Friday, 30 August 2013 | Trading in the forex market closed out August on a positive note as the last trading day of the week and month looked more like a Monday than a Friday. Authorised dealers bought the equivalent of US$53,792,009 and sold the equivalent of only US$39,649,381 for a significant difference of US$14 million.

September is usually a month of low inflows, so it will be interesting to see how things pan out. The central bank over the last four months have tried to flush out funds from the financial sectors with some amount of success but at a higher exchange and interest rates. The next few months should see capital inflows coming into the country as the Chinese are set to commence the road construction on the north south leg of the highway and this is likely to bring in inflows which could augment supplies. It’s a development worth watching.

Purchasing the US dollar amounted to US$46,082,798 at an average of $101.65, an increase of 18 cents over Thursday’s rate and US$34,753,701 was sold at US$102.08 for an increase of 35 cents for the day.

FX_TRADE+Currency+Aug30The Canadian dollar was bought for 97 cents more at $96.11 as C$1,581,241 was purchased and C$1,804,339 was sold at $97.82 an increase of 35 cents over the rate on Thursday. The British Pound purchases amounted to £3,890,382 at $157.57, increasing by $1.89 as only £1,881,887 was sold at 37 cents more than Thursday’s rate and ended at $158.54.

The highest rates for buying the currencies on Friday are US dollar 10 cents higher at $102.85, Canadian 80 cents more at $98.50 and 15 cents down for the British Pound at $159. The lowest rates for buying were US dollar, no change at $84.04; Canadian 12 cents more at $78.60 and a big drop of $28.65 for the British Pound at $100.

FX_TRADE+HighLow+Aug30The highest rates for selling the currencies are US dollar 16 cents higher at $107.86; Canadian 48 cents more at $101.65 and $4.85 down for the British Pound at $161. The lowest selling rates were US dollar, $15.63 down at $84.17; Canadian 25 cents less at $94.45 and a big drop of $2.85 for the British Pound at $152.15.

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JSE: Declining stocks clobber advancers

August 30, 2013 by

Friday, 30th August 2013 | The stock market main indices climbed in today’s trading but that disguises the fact that at the close the number of advancing stocks were only 3 compared to those that fell as trading took place in 26 securities of which 3 advanced, 10 declined and 13 traded firm with 2,414,128 shares trading valued at $12,894,753..

The Jamaica stock market’s main indices gained ground for the second day on Friday’s as the all Jamaica index gained 567.08 to end at 85321.12 while the main market index gained 322.30 to 85,039.91. The junior market index gained 13.90 to close at 792.42.

Stocks traded with good volumes include Carreras 27,717 valued at $1.3 million to close at $46 off $1.50; Caribbean Cement with 56,380 units to close at $2.00. down 30 cents. as the stock retreats from its rapid recent accent to $3; Desnoes & Geddes 200,000 units which was firm at $4.50 for a value of $900,000; Grace Kennedy 50,862 units at $56 valued at $2.855 million as the price fell by $1; Jamaica Broilers 143,172 units up 9 cents to $5.14; Jamaica Money Market Brokers 39,128 units firm at $8; Jamaica Stock Exchange ordinary shares traded 929,650 units and lost 10 cents to close at $2.90 for a value of $2.746 million; National Commercial Bank 52,087 units valued at $1 million as the price closed at $18.60 down 40 cents;  Scotia Group Jamaica 44,689 units valued at $957,000 at $21.50 up 15 cents; JMMB 8.5% preference stock 324,605 units firm at $3 valued at $973,000.

JSEIndicesAug30Junior Market | Nine junior market stocks traded as Caribbean Cream traded 23,000 units to close at $1.05 off 1 cents; Caribbean Producers Jamaica 34,627 units at $2.03; Consolidated Bakeries 16,730 units at $1.45 as loss of 5 cents; Honey Bun 12,421 units firm at $3.50; Lasco Distributors 318,344 units, closed at $1.45 down 1 cents and Lasco Manufacturing 20,453 units at $1.55. Blue Power lost 77 cents to close at $9.20 with a mere 778 units.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows that bids for 5 stocks were higher with 2 stocks having offers lower than their last selling price.

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TTSE: TCL is hot

August 30, 2013 by

Friday, 30th August 2013 | This week’s trading on the T&T stock exchange was almost all about Trinidad Cement as the stock shot up to a new 52 weeks high on Friday at $2.94 at the close, gaining 38 cents on the day as 472,131 units traded valued at $1,387,609. The stock gained 89 cents or 42 percent during the week. The price advance may cool for a few days as the stock closed with the offer 46,481 units at the last selling price and the bid was for only 528 units at $2.75. The rapid movement may keep buyers from chasing the price for awhile until demand come closer to supply. Next week will tell. The fundamentals nevertheless support further gains.

Jamaica Money Market Brokers traded 700,000 shares firm at 50 cents for a value of $350,000; National Flour Mills contributed 148,444 shares with a value of $111,333; while Sagicor Financial Corporation added 23,200 shares valued at $158,920 as the stock price gained 30 cents to end at $6.85. Point Lisa traded 6,946 units gained 9 cents to close at $3.75; Grace Kennedy traded 4,000 units firm at $3.30; Clico Investment Fund had 7,500 shares changing hands valued at $161,283 and closed firm at $21.50. At the close the bid for Clico was at $21.60.

TTSEAug30Today’s volume was 1,362,951 shares valued at $2,225,638 as 9 securities traded of which 3 advanced, none declined and 6 traded firm.

IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows that bids for 4 stocks were higher with 3 stocks having offers lower than their last selling price.

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