Investors focussed their attention on Barbados Shipping & Trading Company Limited on Wednesday, as 1.27 million shares changed hands. National Flour Mills Limited followed with a traded volume of 202,693 shares, and Guardian Holdings Limited contributed 61,754 shares to the day’s total. Altogether, total traded volume stood at 1.63 million shares for a value of $39.55 million.
Advances were the order of the day, with Guardian Holdings Limited leading all others, up $2.20 to $24.22. GraceKennedy Limited climbed $0.08 to close on $5.60, and One Caribbean Media Limited ended the day $0.02 higher on $17.03. On the downside, National Enterprises Limited moved down $0.20 to close on $6.25; Trinidad Cement Limited slipped to $7.74 down $0.06, while both Angostura Holdings Limited and National Flour Mills Limited posted $0.05 losses to close on $4.99 and $0.80 respectively.
On the Mutual Fund Market, Caribbean Property Fund, Praetorian Property Mutual Fund and Savinvest India Asia Fund remained inactive with steady prices of $4.76, $5.00, and $71.00 respectively.
On the Second Tier Market, both Mora Ven Holdings Limited and FNCU Venture Capital Limited saw no shares traded with steady prices of $1.00 and $3.88.
The Composite Index gained 3.25 points to close on 935.55, while the All T&T; Index added 5.73 points to close on 1,178.39.