Most of the active equities during this morning’s session traded lower amid dwindling volumes to send the MSE Share Index down for the first time in five sessions with a 0.2 per cent dip back to 3,432.565 points.

In the banking sector, Bank of Valletta plc eased minimally lower to €2.28,9 across eight trades totalling 15,567 shares. Similarly, Lombard Bank Malta plc eased 0.6 per cent lower to the €1.74 level on low volumes of 3,000 shares.

Meanwhile, FIMBank plc edged minimally higher to close at US$1.02,1 on very shallow volumes of 800 shares.

Elsewhere in the local equity market, International Hotel Investments plc slipped 1.1 per cent lower back to the 92c level across 3,095 shares whilst the share price of Island Hotels Group Holdings plc held on to the 54c5 level on a trade of 35,000 shares.

Low volumes also recorded in Malta International Airport plc with just 3,450 shares changing hands at the €2.04,5 level representing a 0.2 per cent dip from the previous close.

Likewise, RS2 Software plc retreated by 0.8 per cnet back to the €1.25 level across two deals totalling 3,400 shares.

On the bond market, the Rizzo Farrugia MGS Index slumped 0.2 per cent to 1,019.280 points as Eurozone yields surged to above the 1.65 per cnet after last night’s indication from the US Federal Reserve that it is ready to start trimming its $85 billion monthly bond buying programme and to end it by mid-2014 in view of the growth seen in the US economy.

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