FirstCaribbean traded at a new 52 weeks’ high on Friday.
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,
Calypso 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.
One Caribbean Media traded 10,000 shares and fell 14 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ low of $20.55.
At the present price and likelihood of earnings per share hitting $2 this year, the stock is priced close to 30 times this year’s earnings, well ahead of others in that market and could undergo more decline in the price as the market adjusts it to be more in line with its peers.
Trading activity on the Trinidad and Tobago stock market closed Tuesday with marginal gains in the market indices. The volume traded remained subdued with just over 200,000 units changing hands. At the close 12 securities changed hands, 5 of which rose, 7 remained unchanged with no losing stocks at the end of the day. 
Sagicor Financial Corporation gained 1 cent to close with 2,961 shares changing hands at $6.52.
Gains| Scotiabank closed with 1,066 shares changing hands and gained 1 cent to end at $55.51 and West Indian Tobacco traded 12,137 shares to close $126.31 after rising 1 cent.
National Commercial Bank contributed 15,000 shares and fell 1 cent to close at $2.83 and National Flour with 12,000 shares changing hands, lost 1 cent to end at $2.30.
Firstcaribbean International Bank ended trading 1,921 shares to end at $7, Guardian Holdings closed at $12.69 as 524 shares were traded, Guardian Media traded 500 shares with the price remaining at $19.75. JMMB Group ended with 9,026 shares changing hands to close at 64 cents, Massy Holdings had 1,175 shares changing hands to close at $56.73, Scotiabank ended with 2,355 shares changing hands to close at $55.25 and Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed with 4,338 shares changing hands at $23.75.
Scotiabank ended with 2,000 shares changing hands to close with a 20 cents gain at $55.25.
Losses| Point Lisas Industrial Port had 5,572 shares changing hands, with a loss of 10 cents to close at $3.60.
Massy Holdings ended with 20 shares changing hands to end with a loss of 2 cents at $56.70, Prestige Holdings traded 2,892 shares at and lost 5 cents to end at $10.90. Republic Financial Holdings traded only 108 shares but fell 2 cents to close at $109.98 and Trinidad Cement closed with a loss of 36 cents at $3 with 51,600 units trading.