TTSE ends trading with 4 gains – Friday

Trading on the Trinidad and Tobago stock market closed on Friday with losses in the market indices as Massy Holding fell sharply. The market closed with just 10 securities changing hands resulting in 369,672 shares valued at $4,717,859 being traded. At the close of trading 4 stocks rose, 3 declined and 3 remained unchanged.
The Composite Index declined 2.06 points to close at 1,153.63, the All T&T Index shed 3.78 points to close at 1,807.76 and the Cross Listed Index eased 0.04 at 66.53.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 7 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 9 with offers that were lower.
Gains| Ansa Merchant Bank gained 1 cents in trading 400 units to end at a 52 week’s high of $40.01, Guardian Holdings gained 30 cents to close at $13 with 220,144 shares or a value of $2,821,643 traded. National Flour ended with 100 shares changing and rose 1 cent, to close at $2.31 and Trinidad cement traded 3,307 units and rose by a cent to close at $3.01.
Losses| Massy Holding dropped $1.73 while trading 27,750 units to close at $55, National Enterprises closed with 3,636 shares changing hands with a loss of 10 cents to end at $10.50 and Scotia Investments contributed 77,569 shares and fell 5 cents to close at $1.70.
Firm Trades| Clico Investments closed at $22.55 with 2,506 units, JMMB Group ended with 30,260 shares changing hands to close at 64 cents and Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed with 4,000 shares changing hands unchanged at $23.75.