Stocks mostly retreated on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange on Friday sending the market indices down for the fourth day in a row, with the T&T Composite Index declining 1.97 points to 1,484.02. The All T&T Index shed 2.73 points to end at 1,898.89, while the Cross Listed Index closed with a decline of 0.16 points at 144.83.
The market closed with two stocks rising, six declining while six remained unchanged. The volume of stocks passing through the market fell to 347,621 shares valued $8,785,947 compared to 488,591 shares for $11,813,231 on Thursday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the bids of four stocks higher than their last selling prices and seven with lower offers.
Gainers| First Caribbean International gained 2 cents trading 62,000 stock units to close at $7.89 and Republic Financial exchanged 1,931 units and rose $1.50 to end $145.50.
Losers|Clico Investmentshed 13 cents trading 133 units and closed at $28.37, First Citizens Bank slipped 4 cents in transferring 20,240 stock units to end at $47.01, >Guardian Holdings declined by 5 cents to $21.95, with 31,069 units crossing the market and JMMB Group lost 1 cent to close at $2.09 exchanging 87,485 shares. Massy Holdings fell $1.35 to $61.60 in transferring 50,437 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL traded 20,993 stock units and shed 50 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ low of $16.50.
Firm Trades| Angostura Holdings exchanged 28,234 stock units at $16.25, Ansa McAL traded 3,489 shares at $55.50, National Enterprises closed at $5.60, with 600 units crossing the market, NCB Financial transferred 9,130 stock units at $11.35. Prestige Holdings exchanged 300 shares at $9, Scotiabank ended at $62.52, with 30,975 units changing hands and West Indies Tobacco traded 605 units at $38.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.