The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange continue to slip on Thursday as 15 securities changed hands compared to 17 on Wednesday with all market indices falling.
At the close, 3 stocks advanced, 5 declined and 7 were unchanged at the last traded prices as 381,687 shares traded at a value of $1,583,237 compared to Wednesday’s trades of 142,022 valued at $2,320,841.
The Composite Index declined by 3.01 points to 1,239.55, the All T&T Index dropped 3.80 points to 1,784.05 and the Cross Listed Index was down 0.30 points to close at 93.35.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 2 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Gains| The last traded prices of the securities rising and the volume changing hands are Agostini’s that gained 1 cent and closing at a 52 weeks’ high of $20.53 with a mere 29 units, First Caribbean International Bank closed at $8.02 with a 1 cent gain in exchanging 200 units and Scotiabank with gains of 3 cents, closed at $58.03 with 2,925 shares.
Losses| The last traded prices of securities declining and the volume changing hands are Ansa McAL ending with a loss of 20 cents, to $65.59 with 251 units, First Citizens closed at $32, after losing 1 cent and exchanging just 19 units, Guardian Holdings traded 50 cents lower to $15 with 10,000 shares. 
NCB Financial Group lost 5 cents, closing at $5.10 with 4,518 shares and Trinidad Cement closed at $4.20, with a loss of 1 cent trading 225 units.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are Grace Kennedy in exchanging 21,000 shares at $2.85, Massy Holdings closing at $49 with 7,536 shares valued at $369,182, National Flour Mills trading 318,544 shares at $2 valued at $637,088. Prestige Holdings closed at $10.80 with only 9 units, Sagicor Financial held firm at $8 with 1,097 units, Scotia Investments remained at $2.25 with trades of 10,000 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL exchanged 5,334 shares at $23.
5 TTSE stocks fall 3 rise
JSE rise on modest trading – Wednesday
Carreras jumped to a record close of $12.
In modest trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Wednesday, the prices of 10 stocks rose and 5 fell in the main and US dollar markets, leading to gains in the main market indices, the third consecutive day of increase.
Cigarette distributor, Carreras fresh from a 10 for 1 stock split, traded at a new 52 weeks’ high of $12 at the close while JMMB Group hit an intraday 52 weeks’ high of $23.70 before pulling back to $22 by the close as supply to sell is very limited and should pave the way for upward push in the price in the days or weeks ahead.
At the close of market activity, Berger Paints closed at $11, the last price the stock traded at, after hitting a high of $12.20 and ending with 129,140 shares changing hands. Cable and Wireless gained 5 cents to close at $1.10 with 111,500 units, Carreras closed at a record $12, after gaining 50 cents with 1,134,465 shares, Grace Kennedy advanced $1, settling at $43.01 with 4,332 units. Jamaica Broilers lost 29 cents and closed at $15.75, with 12,130 shares, Jamaica Producers lost 1 cent, closing at $15 in exchanging 18,700 stock units, Jamaica Stock Exchange rose 10 cents to $6.45 with 1,000 units, JMMB Group closed at $22, after gaining $1 and trading 20,959 shares. 
Kingston Wharves dropped $2.50 to close at $29.50 with 1,000 units having been exchanged, NCB Financial Group traded 99 cents lower to $88.99 with 34,831 shares. PanJam Investment remained at $35.50 with trades of 2,100 units, Pulse Investments closed at $1.42, gaining 2 cents with 183,000 shares, Radio Jamaica with gains of 6 cents, closed at $1.11, in trading 11,000 stock units, Sagicor Group added 2 cents, ending at $34.52 with 8,333 units changing hands, Salada Foods traded 88,783 shares at $8, Scotia Group closed at $51, exchanging 16,194 units, Seprod added $1 to close at $34 with 1,500 shares, Supreme Ventures closed 15 cents lower to $10.85 in exchanging 3,703 units. Productive Business Solution US ordinary shares closed at 65 US cents, trading 540 units, Proven Investments US ordinary shares traded 397 units at 23.99 US cents, JMMB Group 7.5% preference share closed at $1.19, gaining 4 cents with 26,540 stock units and Proven 8.25% cumulative preference share closed at $5.50 with 17,500 units.
TTSE stocks continue to be weak
Unilever products – Unilever Caribbean tumbled $1.11 to a 52 weeks’ low of $49.39 with 5,070 shares
Reflecting a general weakness in the performance of stocks listed on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ,the market closed trading on Wednesday with more securities falling in price than those rising and with three falling to 52 weeks’ lows.
Trading ended with 17 securities changing hands compared to 13 on Tuesday but trading levels fell by more than half with market activity resulted in 142,022 shares traded for $2,320,841 compared to Tuesday’s trades of 367,871 units valued at $5,030,961.
The two major indices recorded declines for a 4 consecutive day as, 5 stocks advanced, 7 declined and 5 were unchanged, based on the last price each security traded for the day. The Composite Index declined 0.85 points to 1,242.56, the All T&T Index dropped 2.46 points to 1,787.85 and the Cross Listed Index added 0.11 points to close at 93.65.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 6 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Gains| The last traded prices of the securities rising and the volume changing hands are Angostura Holdings with gains of 10 cents, closed at $15.25 with 600 units, First Citizens rising 1 cent, to $32.01 with 1,000 units,NCB Financial that traded 4 cents higher to $5.15 with 266 units while Trinidad & Tobago NGL rose 2 cents and closed at $23 with 7,037 shares and Trinidad Cement closed at $4.21, after adding 1 cent with 6,131 shares.
Losses| The last traded prices of securities declining and the volume changing hands are Guardian Holdings that ended with a loss of 50 cents, closing at $15.50 with 2,281 shares, 
National Enterprises closed at $10.47, losing 1 cent in exchanging 10,000 shares, Republic Financial Holdings ended with a loss of 1 cent at a 52 weeks’ low of $101.90 trading 3,633 shares valued at $370,227. Sagicor Financial declined 19 cents to close at $8 with 61,940 shares valued at $495,610, Scotiabank lost 2 cents, closing at $58 with 34 units, Unilever Caribbean tumbled $1.11 to a 52 weeks’ low of $49.39 with 5,070 shares and West Indian Tobacco closed 46 cents lower to a 52 weeks’ low of $125 with 62 units.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are Clico Investment exchanged 4,400 shares at $20.77, Massy Holdings closed at $49 with 10,780 shares valued at $528,220 and National Flour Mills traded 16,460 shares at $2. One Caribbean Media exchanged 11,980 shares at $14.25 nd Point Lisas remained at $4 with 348 units.
Berger investors rebuffing Ansa offer
Berger Paints traded at a high as $11.55 on Tuesday.
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed trading with 25 securities changed hands, with declining stocks just edging out advancing ones, while 3 stocks traded in the US dollar market.
The market closed with 9 stocks advancing and 11 declining based on the price the trade took place.
Some noted trades include Berger Paints that continues to trade above the price on $10.88 offered by Ansa Coatings to acquire the minority holdings. Investors continue to rebuff the offer by buying the stock at the close at $11 with 153,142 shares changing hands, up to $11.55 and a low of $10.85. The stock closed with a bid to buy 103,462 units at $11 and just 2,935 units offered at $11.70 and few shares offered close to this range.
Some other trades of note are Jamaica Producers 4 million unit trade with the price dropping nearly $1 and a $3.75 jump in the price of Seprod.
At the close of market activity, Barita Investments traded at $8.15, having lost 85 cents with 4,900 units, Cable and Wireless lost 3 cents to close at $1.05 with 18,708 shares, Caribbean Cement traded $2 lower to $28 with only 240 units, Carreras closed at record high of $11.50, gaining 25 cents with 223,703 shares trading, Grace Kennedy fell 99 cents and settled at $42.01 with 11,117 shares. Jamaica Broilers closed at $16.04, losing 86 cents with just 200 units, Jamaica Producers dropped 99 cents to $15.01 exchanging 4,075,641 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with a loss of 65 cents at $6.35 with 5,000 units, JMMB Group closed at $21 trading 14,000 shares. Kingston Properties closed at $7 with 598,296 shares changing hands, 
Kingston Wharves exchanged 1,500 units at $32, Mayberry Investments gained 20 cents, closing at $4.70 with 11,020 shares, NCB Financial Group traded 98 cents higher to $89.98 with 42,825 shares, 1834 Investments rose 10 cents and closed at $1.40 with 3,480 units. PanJam Investment gained $1.43, closing at $35.50 with 103,000 shares, Pulse Investments closed at $1.40, losing 30 cents with 58,680 shares trading, after the company released audited accounts showing lower profit in 2017 than in 2016, due mainly to the treatment of taxation. Sagicor Group closed with gains of 50 cents at $34.50 trading 8,700 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund closed at $11, after gaining 38 cents with 2,747 units, Salada Foods fell 50 cents, trading at $8 with 9,000 shares, Scotia Group closed $1 higher to $51 exchanging 147,026 shares, Seprod advanced $3.75 to $33 with 16,309 shares, Supreme Ventures closed 10 cents lower to $11 exchanging 145,884 shares. Productive Business Solution US ordinary share closed at 65 US cents trading 48,360 units, Proven Investments US ordinary share traded 27,635 units at 24 US cents, JMMB Group US 6% preference share exchanged 8,617 units at US$1.12, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.25% preference share closed at $2.50 with 650 units and JMMB Group 7.5% preference share lost 4 cents, closing at $1.15 with 100,000 units.
Trading up prices down on TTSE
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Tuesday closed with 13 securities changing hands compared to 10 on Monday. Trading levels rose above Monday’s levels, with Trinidad & Tobago NGL leading with 58 percent of the value of securities exchanged followed by Scotiabank with 23 percent.
The market closed with 3 stocks advancing, 5 declining and 5 unchanged, at last traded prices. A total of 367,871 shares traded at a value of $5,030,961 compared to Monday’s low trades of 93,727 valued at $1,208,281.
The Composite Index declined 0.21 points to 1,243.41, the All T&T Index fell 0.60 points to 1,790.31 while the Cross Listed Index gained 0.02 points to close at 93.54.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 4 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
Gains| The last traded prices of the securities rising and the volume changing hands are Clico Investment rising 2 cents, to $20.77 with 9,918 shares, NCB Financial Group closed at $5.11, after gaining 1 cent and trading 734 units and Prestige Holdings rose 10 cents to $10.80 with 91 units changing hands.
Losses| Securities declining with the volume changing hands are First Caribbean International Bank lost 1 cent, closing at $8.01 with 500 units, Guardian Holdings closed at $16, losing 10 cents exchanging 674 units, L.J. Williams B share with a loss of 1 cent and closed at 78 cents with 15,000 shares. Republic Financial Holdings closed 8 cents lower to $101.92 with 2,500 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL slipped 1 cent to $22.98 trading 127,315 shares valued at $2,926,781.
Firm Trades| The volume of securities traded with prices unchanged at the close of are First Citizens exchanging 500 units at $32, JMMB Group closed at $1.30 with 3,752 shares, National Flour Mills traded 2,370 shares at $2. Scotiabank remained at $58.02 exchanging 20,197 shares valued at $1,171,830 and Scotia Investments held firm at $2.25 with 184,320 shares valued at $414,720.
High price movements on Monday
NCBFG jumped $8.94 to $89 on Monday.
On a day of low trading activity 4 securities were dominant by movement in their prices on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange as the market posted sizable gains in the indices.
Carreras rose 45 cents in closing at $11.25 with 205,850 shares after the 10 for 1 stock split, recently approved by shareholders. NCB Financial Group jumped $8.94 to $89 and Scotia Group recovered $4.95 of the loss on Friday to end at $50 and Caribbean Cement climbed $2.50 to $30.
At the close of market activity, Berger Paints slipped 50 cents to close at $11 with 60,411 shares, Cable and Wireless closed at $1.08, losing 2 cents with 146,795 stock units, Caribbean Cement advanced $2.50 to $30 with 2,000 units, Carreras rose 45 cents and closed at record high of $11.25 with 205,850 shares after the stock split, Ciboney Group lost 1 cent, trading 93,564 shares, closing at 16 cents, Grace Kennedy lost 50 cents and ended at $43 with 1,479 units. Jamaica Broilers gained 90 cents, closing at $16.90 with 42,927 shares, Jamaica Producers traded 205 units at $16, Jamaica Stock Exchange with gains of 65 cents, in closing at $7 with 1,370 units, JMMB Group closed at $21 exchanging 154,472 shares after trading as high as $23 in the morning session. Kingston Wharves ended with a loss of 40 cents at $32 with 3,142 units, Mayberry Investments gained 28 cents, in closing at $4.50 with 10,000 shares, NCB Financial Group traded $8.94 higher to $89 while exchanging 163,270 shares, 1834 Investments closed at $1.30 with 2,614,586 shares. 
PanJam Investment fell 43 cents, to close at $34.07 with 6,675 units, Pulse Investments closed at $1.70, losing 10 cents with 129,552 shares, Sagicor Group traded 29,148 stock units at $34, Sagicor Real Estate X Fund rose 2 cents, and closed at $10.62 with 3,000 units, Scotia Group closed $4.95 higher to $50 while exchanging 49,759 shares, Scotia Investments slipped 30 cents to $37 with 24,700 shares, Seprod exchanged 12,869 shares at $29.25 and Supreme Ventures closed 39 cents lower at $11.10 with 150,730 units. Productive Business Solution US ordinary shares closed at 65 US cents after gaining 5 cents trading 2,000 units, JMMB Group US 6% preference share traded 4,380 units at US$1.12, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.25% preference share closed at $2.50 with 13,600 units, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.5% preference share exchanged 645,775 units at $2 and Proven 8.25% cumulative redeemable preference share closed at $5.50 with 1,200 units.
JSE rebounds on limited trading – Monday
NCB Financial stock stock price recovered from the fall to $80.1 on Friday, to close at $89.
Major reversals in the closing prices Scotia Group, NCB Financial Group along with a rise in the price of Carreras after the 10 for 1 stock split, drove the Jamaica Stock Exchange indices sharply higher at the close on Monday.
At the end of trading, the All Jamaica Composite Index jump of 7,363.43 points after rising over 9,000 points in the first hour of trading and settled at 284,312.79. The JSE Market Index held on to a big rise of 6,708.92 points by the close to 259,041.12 after the index surged close to 9,000 points in early morning trading. The JSE US dollar market index rose 4.60 points to 191.28.
Trading was light resulting from 25 securities changing hands in the main market with 2 trading in the US dollar market, leading to 9 stocks advancing and 9 declining. The main market ended with 4,567,079 units valued at $32,966,262 changing hands compared to 58,667,241 units valued at $128,145,103 at the close on Friday. Trading in the US dollar market accounted for 6,380 units valued at US$6,206 bringing the total of all trades to J$33,779,196.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and US dollar markets, 
the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
The main market ended trading with an average of 182,683 units, for an average of $1,318,651 for each security traded, compared to an average of 2,256,432 units valued at $4,928,658 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date ended at 352,182 units with an average value of $$3,275,641 compared with an average of 367,951 units with an average value of $3,438,723 on the previous trading day. The average volume and value for August ended at 184,094 units with an average value of $4,336,090.
Low trading interest for TTSE
Trading activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange was just moderate on Monday with just 10 securities changing hands, with only 93,727 shares traded valued $1,208,281 as companies accounting for only 32 units.
On Friday 15 securities traded accounting for 156,178 units valued at $2,255,149 and resulted in
1 stock advancing, 6 declining and 3 remaining unchanged.
The Composite Index declined 0.80 points to 1,243.62, the All T&T Index fell 0.42 points to 1,790.91 and the Cross Listed Index slipped 0.16 points to close at 93.52.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 4 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
Gains| First Citizens gained 4 cents and closed at $32 with 1,500 shares changing hands, is the only security trading with an increase price at close.
Losses| The last traded prices of securities declining and the volume changing hands are Ansa McAL that lost 1 cent, trading just 15 units at $65.79, 
Guardian Holdings lost 10 cents, in closing at $16.10 with a mere 10 units, JMMB Group closed at $1.30, losing 2 cents while exchanging 27,887 shares. National Flour Mills with a loss of 4 cents, to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $2 with 3,236 shares. Trinidad & Tobago NGL slipped 1 cent to $22.99 trading 5,614 shares and West Indian Tobacco closed at a 52 weeks’ low of $125.46, after losing 1 cent with just 7 units.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are Ansa Merchant Bank exchanging 4,056 shares at $40, Clico Investment trading 35,920 shares at $20.75 valued at $745,211 and NCB Financial Group remained at $5.10 with 15,482 shares changing hands.
Scotia drops $6.95 & NCB $10.19 – Friday
NCB $10.19 on Friday.
Stocks advancing on the Jamaica Stock Exchange were edged out 11 declining stocks 10 on Friday, but that did not prevent the All Jamaica Composite Index tumbling by a record 10,134.09 points as investors pushed down the prices of Scotia Group to $45.05 within 2 minutes of the close and NCB Financial to $80.06.
The sharp fall in the market on Friday does not appear to be an indication that the upward climb in the market has ended. The 6 to 2 positive Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator suggests that the majority of prices could be rising on Monday.
At the close of market activity, Berger Paints gained of 50 cents, and closed at $11.50 with 28,241 shares, Cable and Wireless closed at $1.10, after falling 9 cents with 28,080 stock units changing hands, Caribbean Cement exchanged 7,900 units at $27.50, Carreras lost 3 cents and closed at $107.97 with 62,828 shares, Ciboney Group fell 3 cents trading 388,884 stock units at 17 cents, Grace Kennedy climbed $1.50 and ended at $43.50 with 6,005 units. Jamaica Broilers gained 25 cents, closing at $16 with 347,061 shares, Jamaica Producers traded $1 higher to $16 with 58,252 stock units, 
Jamaica Stock Exchange lost 16 cents to close at $6.35 with 536 units, JMMB Group with a loss of 20 cents, closed at $21 exchanging 147,249 shares. Kingston Properties exchanged 83,308 stock units at $7, Kingston Wharves climbed $1.55 to $32.40 with 13,777 shares, NCB Financial Group dropped a whopping $10.19, closing at $80.06 with 268,345 stock units, 1834 Investments ended with a loss of 4 cents at $1.30 with 2,384 units. PanJam Investment rose 65 cents and closed at $34.50 with 109,570 shares, Pulse Investments gained 10 cents, closing at $1.80 with 189,637 units, Radio Jamaica closed at $1.05, after gaining 1 cent with 2,039,632 shares, Sagicor Group traded 53 cents lower to $34 with 174,537 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate X Fund ended with a loss of 40 cents at $10.60 with 4,000 units, Scotia Group dropped $6.95 lower to $45.05 exchanging 306,497 shares, Sterling Investments gained 10 cents to close at $12 with 6,371 units and Supreme Ventures closed at $11.49 while gaining 69 cents with 24,710 shares changing ownership, Proven Investments US ordinary share closed at 23.99 US cents trading 219,700 units, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.5% preference share exchanged 4,369,225 units at $2, JMMB Group 7.5% preference share closed at $1.19 with 112 units and Sagicor Bank Jamaica Class A 7.75% cumulative redeemable preference share gained 5 cents to close at $1.05 with 50,000,000 units traded.
Trading activity eased on Friday
Trading levels dropped sharply on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Friday closed with 156,178 shares valued at $2,255,149 changing hands compared to Thursday’s 623,687 units valued at $14,619,055.
At the close, 15 securities changed hands compared to 18 on Thursday with 3 rising in price, 4 declining and 8 trading unchanged. Market activity led to the Composite Index slipping 1.53 points to 1,244.52, the All T&T Index falling just by 0.38 points to 1,791.53 and the Cross Listed Index easing 0.37 points to close at 93.68.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 4 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
Gains| The last traded prices of securities rising and the volume changing hands are Clico Investment gained 5 cents, rising to $20.75 with 27,450 shares valued at $569,260, Massy Holdings ending with gains of 8 cents and closed at $49 with 416 units and Point Lisas closing 10 cents higher to $4 with 1,000 units.
Losses| The last traded prices of securities declining and the volume changing hands are First Citizens lost 4 cents, closing at $31.96 with 543 units changing hands, Guardian Holdings with a loss of 19 cents, closed at $16.20 with 165 units, NCB Financial Group closed at $5.10, losing 5 cents and trading 34,000 shares and Sagicor Financial ending with a loss of 1 cent, closed at $8.19 exchanging 12,203 shares.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are Agostini’s exchanging 2,750 units at $20.52, Angostura Holdings trading 2,732 units at $15.15. JMMB Group closed at $1.32 exchanging 13,190 shares, Readymix closed at $11 with 368 units. Republic Financial Holdings closed at $102 trading 4,571 shares valued at $466,209, Scotiabank remained at $58.02 with 2,580 units, Trinidad Cement closed at $4.20 with 32,673 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL held firm at $23 with 21,537 stock units valued at $495,351.