Friday, 16th August 2013 | Jamaica Money Market Brokers was leading stock trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Friday with 1,350,000 shares changing hands for a value of $675,000. This was the second big trading day for the stock as 834,646 units were traded on Thursday clearly benefiting from a big jump in the company’s first quarter profits of J$753 million compared to J$470 million in 2012 from ongoing business. However, Unilever Caribbean stole the show for the value of trade at $1,975,823 for 35,911 shares traded.
In a market that is in the process of consolidating, only 11 securities of which 3 advanced, 5 declined and 3 traded firm with price movements being moderate. The market registered a volume of 1,588,442 shares crossing the floor of the Exchange valued at $3,665,771.
Trinidad Cement with a volume of 102,000 shares traded for a total value of $179,520. The stock price increased by 6 cents to end the day at $1.76 and is now up 85 percent since July 3 of this year when it then traded at 95 cents. Grace Kennedy accounted for 29,000 units valued at $98,333.
Sagicor Financial Corporation suffered the day’s greatest loss, falling $0.32 to close at $6.30 as 13,520 of the company’s stock traded. Clico Investment Fund was the only active security on the Mutual Fund Market, posting a volume of 22,031 shares valued at $473,667 and trading firm at $21.50.
IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows that bids for 2 stocks was higher than the last selling price, with 2 stocks with offers that were lower.
