The [Bahamas International Securities Exchange](http://www.bisxbahamas.com/) (BISX) announced today its All-Share Index and trading statistics for the three month period ending March 31, 2013 with comparison to the same period of 2012. For the three month period ending March 31, 2013 the BISX All-Share Index closed at 1389.83. This represents a year to date increase of 43.57 or 3.24%. By comparison, for the three month period ending March 31, 2012, the BISX All Share Index closed at 1308.85, which represented a year to date decrease of 56.14 or -4.11. The BISX All-Share Index is a market capitalization weighted index comprised of all primary market listings excluding debt securities.
As at March 31, 2013 the market was comprised of 27 primary market listings with a market capitalization of $2.963 Billion. The primary market securities traded over BISX include 20 common share listings, 3 preference share listing and 4 tranches of debt.
Trading Volume for the three month period ending March 31, 2013 was 635,248 shares for a value of $3,760,439.21. By comparison, trading volume for the three month period ending March 31, 2012 was1,148,910 shares for a value of $5,287,732.35. For the three month period ending March 31, 2013, the average daily trading volume was 10,241 shares which resulted in an average daily trading value of $60,700. During this three month period, February 2013 saw the highest average daily trading volume and value with 13,957 shares with a value of $82,753 trading, respectively. By comparison, the three month period ended March 31, 2012 saw an average daily trading volume of 17,817 shares which resulted in an average daily trading value of$81,602.