Trinidad Cement closed at a 52 weeks’ high on Friday.
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.
One Caribbean Media fell 9 cents to end $19.90 with 195 shares and Unilever Caribbean lost 1 cent with 49 units trading, to end at 52 weeks low of $59.84.
a 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.
Trading levels declined sharply on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Wednesday in contrast to much more robust activity on Tuesday when 13 securities traded. At the close, 8 securities changed hands, 2 advanced, 1 declined and 5 traded unchanged.
Losses|Guardian Holdings lost 5 cents with 1,125 shares changing hands to close at $12.95.
Firm Trades | Angostura Holdings with 150,473 shares changing hands, closed at $15.50 with a value of $2,332,332, Clico Investment Fund closed at $22.60 with 20,800 shares changing hands, First Citizens closed at $33.01 with 605 shares changing hands, First Caribbean International Bank closed at $8.50 with 1,155 shares changing hands. Guardian Media closed at $19 with 6,443 shares changing hands, National Enterprises closed at $10.55 with 6,000 shares changing hands, Prestige Holdings, with 602 shares changing hands, closed at $11. Scotiabank closed at $58.72 with 500 shares changing hands and Witco closed at $126.80 with 59,360 shares changing hands valued at $7,526,848, Witco will make a dividend payout of $1.44 per share on November 24.
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. 
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.
Losses| Massy Holdings lost 15 cents and ended with 64,689 shares carrying a value of $3,551,396 changing hands, to end at $54.80 and National Enterprises lost 5 cents to close with 1,029 shares changing hands at $10.45,
close at $54.90 and Sagicor Financial Corporation closed with 1,622 shares changing hands as the price fell 15 cents to $6.75.
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.
Republic Financial Holdings lost 50 cents to end with 5,361 shares valued at $589,710 changing hands at $110 and Scotiabank contributed 6,891 shares valued at $365,430 and dropped 81 cents to end at $53.03.
