
Prestige Holdings brand – the stock traded at a high on Tuesday.
The market closed with the Composite Index falling 0.76 points to close at 1,158.68, the All T&T Index dropping 1.45 points to close at 1,863.61 and the Cross Listed Index remained at 60.22.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 1 stock with the bid higher than the last selling price and 9 with offers that were lower. More telling is the fact that about a third of the listings have no bids to buy.
Gains| Agostini’s traded 990 shares at $17.03 with a rise of 1 cent, Clico Investments traded 26,975 shares with a value of $1,571,937 to close with a gain of 18 cents at $22.73. Prestige Holdings with 126 units changing hands ended at a 52 weeks’ high of $11.16, to record a gain of 4 cents and Republic Financial Holdings gained by 2 cents to close at $112.20 with 9,094 shares changing hands, at a value of $1,020,269.
Losses| Massy Holdings ended with 8,024 shares with a value of $455,101 changing hands as the price dropped 5 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ low of $56.70, Scotiabank closed with 6,420 shares valued at $381,867 changing hands with a loss of 24 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ low of $59.48. Scotia Investments closed with a loss of 4 cents at $1.71 while trading 50,694 shares and Trinidad Cement lost 2 cents to close at $3.68 with 55,022 shares.
Firm Trades| Ansa Merchant Bank ended with 2,549 shares trading at $38.95, Berger Paints traded 100 shares at $3.68, Grace Kennedy closed with 39,625 units changing hands to close at $5.15.
Guardian Holdings ended trading with 22,850 shares valued at $312,955 changing hands at $13.70, National Commercial Bank had 51,688 shares changing hands to close at $2.40, National Flour closed with 6,270 shares changing hands at $1.95. Praetorian Property Mutual Fund contributed 12,000 shares and rose cents to end at $3, Sagicor Financial Corporation 6.5% US$1 preference share traded 70 units at US$1.10, Trinidad and Tobago NGL ended trading 22,359 shares with a value of $424,821 to close at $19 and West Indian Tobacco traded 18,309 units at $126.30 worth $2,312,427.

Firm Trades|Clico Investments traded 26,975 shares with a value of $608,779 to close at $22.55, 
Firm Trades| Berger Paint ended with 900 shares changing hands to close at $3.68, Clico Investments traded 16,150 shares to close at $22.55, Firstcaribbean International Bank closed with 4,042 units changing hands at $6.50. Grace Kennedy close with 500 units changing hands to close at $5.13, Guardian Media traded 100 shares to close at $19.75, National Commercial Bank had 1,280,044 shares valued at $ $3,072,106 changing hands to close at $2.40 and Trinidad Cement closed with a loss of 1 cent at $3.70 with 26,812 shares changing hands.

Firm Trades| Ansa Merchant Bank contributed 100 shares in closing at $38.95, Firstcaribbean International Bank closed with 68,782 units value at $447,083 changing hands at $6.50. Guardian Holdings traded 58,832 shares valued at $805,998 at $13.70, National Commercial Bank had 6,750,000 shares valued at $16,200,000 changing hands to close at $2.40. Point Lisas traded 100 shares at $4, Republic Financial Holdings closed at $112.18 with 538 shares changing hands after it traded earlier at $112.24. Sagicor Financial Corporation closed with 215,435 shares changing hands valued $1,506,771 at $6.99, Scotiabank closed with 200 shares changing hands to end at $59.74, Trinidad and Tobago NGL traded 27,476 shares to close at $18.25.

Scotiabank closed with 523 shares changing hands after falling 1 cent, to end at $59.74, Trinidad and Tobago NGL lost 66 cents in trading a mere 13,925 shares to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $18.25 and Trinidad Cement traded 1,000 shares but fell 5 cents to $3.70.
Trading activity ended on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Tuesday with 330,345 shares valued at $5,414,285 changing hands. All three market indices declined, continuing a negative trend, in evidence for 2016. The market ended with 15 active securities of which, 4 rose, 4 fell and 7 remained unchanged. One stock ended at 52 weeks’ low at the close.
Losses| ANSA McAL contributed 85,000 shares with a value of $5,418,750 but lost 23 cents in closing at a 52 weeks’ low of $63.75, Scotia Investments fell 10 cents to close at $1.90 while trading 17,822 shares and Unilever Caribbean fell by $1.81 with 2,114 shares trading to close at $66.
Scotiabank closed with 1,977 shares changing hands with a 1 cent loss to end at a 52 weeks’ low of $59.74, 
$889,930 changing hands at $13.70 after losing 25 cents, Massy Holdings traded 23,548 shares to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $57.98 after slipping 2 cents and Trinidad and Tobago NGL lost 2 cents and closed at $18.98 with 7,698 units trading.
Losses| West Indian Tobacco traded 1,018 shares to close at $126.28 after slipping 1 cent.