Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Friday with trading in 18 securities against 14 on Thursday, with 6 advancing, 4 declining and 8 remaining unchanged.
At close of the market, the Composite Index fell 2.89 points to 1,305.44. The All T&T Index gained 1.81 points to 1,704.99, while the Cross Listed Index fell 1.05 points to close at 122.42.
Trading ended with 148,886 shares at a value of $4,014,078, compared to 325,246 shares on Thursday valued at $19,983,496.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 5 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Clico Investments closed with an increase of 7 cents at $20.25, with 41,703 stock units changing hands, Guardian Holdings ended trading 2,556 units, with an increase of 24 cents at $18.95, JMMB Group finished trading 2 cents higher to $1.80, after exchanging 14,536 shares. Republic Financial Holdings gained 9 cents to settle at $107.40, after exchanging 21,839 shares, Scotiabank added 75 cents and ended at $63.50, with 607 stock units changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL increased 6 cents and completed trading of 4,285 units at $29.12.
Stocks ending with losses | First Caribbean International Bank closed with a loss of 1 cent at $8.49, with an exchange of 40,175 units, LJ Williams B share closed with a loss of 5 cents at 70 cents, after exchanging 1,000
shares. NCB Financial Group shed 15 cents and settled at $8.50, after trading 8,000 shares and West Indian Tobacco lost 14 cents and ended at $95.26, with 41 stock units changing hands.
Stocks traded firm | Agostini’s ended at $23.15, after exchanging 552 shares, Ansa McAl completed trading of 1,169 units at $55, Calypso Macro Index Fund closed at $14.50 in trading 160 shares, National Enterprises ended at $8, with 2,490 stock units changing hands, One Caribbean Media closed at $10.35, after exchanging 5,321 shares. Point Lisas ended at $3.65, with 1,500 stock units changing hands, Trinidad Cement settled at $2.65, after exchanging 2,617 shares and Unilever Caribbean concluded market activity at $22.90, after exchanging 335 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
The number of companies trading on Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange declined, but the value of stocks trading jumped sharply over Wednesday’s level as Scotiabank traded 151,196 units valued at $9,488,113 and Republic Holdings 80,732 shares for $8,666,851.


Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday with trading in 17 securities against 16 on Monday, with 3 advancing, 4 declining and 9 remaining unchanged.
cents and settled at $8.55, after exchanging 1,942 shares, Prestige Holdings ended 10 cents lower at $7.40 trading with 52,337 units. Sagicor Financial concluded trading with a loss of 8 cents at $8.90, after exchanging 200 shares and Scotiabank traded with a loss of 49 cents and ended at $63.50, with 1,234 stock units changing hands.


In a delayed trading session of the Trinidad Stock Exchange on Friday, due to connectivity issues that prevented trading from taking place, the market closed with considerably lower volume and value trading.
changing hands and Prestige Holdings gained 20 cents and settled at $7.50, after trading 250 shares.
Trading ended on the Trinidad Stock Exchange closed on the first day of 2019 with all three main indices ending with modest gains. 