Over­all mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 13 se­cu­ri­ties of which three ad­vanced, four de­clined and six trad­ed firm. Trad­ing ac­tiv­i­ty on the first tier mar­ket reg­is­tered a vol­ume of 471,308 shares cross­ing the floor of the Ex­change val­ued at $5,350,666.31.

The Com­pos­ite In­dex de­clined by 0.14 points, or by 0.01 per cent, to close at 1,047.69, while the All T&T In­dex ad­vanced by 1.49 points, or by 0.09 per cent, to close at 1,590.28. The Cross List­ed In­dex de­clined by 0.20 points, or 0.31 per cent, to close at 64.31.

Guardian Hold­ings Ltd was the vol­ume leader with 119,974 shares chang­ing hands for a val­ue of $2,027,469.96, fol­lowed by Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd with a vol­ume of 88,050 shares be­ing trad­ed for $171,647.50. Na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Bank Ja­maica Ltd con­tributed 72,130 shares with a val­ue of $126,227.50, while Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Ltd added 66,705 shares val­ued at $924,104.25.

The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny en­joyed the day's largest gain, in­creas­ing $0.70 to end the day at $73.00. Guardian Hold­ings Ltd added $0.38 to close at $16.90, while Neal & Massy end­ed high­er by $0.21 at $45.41. Con­verse­ly, An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd suf­fered the day's great­est loss, falling $0.13 to close at $8.15. The mu­tu­al fund and sec­ond tier mar­kets did not record any ac­tiv­i­ty.