After 60 minutes of trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, 18 securities traded 
with 3 rising and 5 declining comprising a total volume of only 370,060 shares changing hands, only 7 stocks have so far traded in the junior market with both declining.
The all Jamaican Composite index inched up 400.20 to 108,062.14 points, JSE Combined Index put on 154.06 to 100,152.63 points, JSE Index is now at 97,629.20 points after adding 358.05 points and Junior Market Index fell to 894.54, down by 20.23 points.
The most noticeable trades so far are, Lasco Distributors 27,966 shares at $1.69, Lasco Financial Services 38,764 units at $1.81, Lasco Manufacturing with 110,000 shares at $1.45 and Supreme Ventures traded at $3.90 to add 50 cents.
Archives for July 2015
JSE main indices move up
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Remittances growing slowly
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Jamaica enjoyed US$194 million in remittance inflows for the March this year, an increase of US$5.7 million or 3.1 percent relative to the same month of last year, after factoring an expansion in remittance outflows, net remittances came in at US$174.4 million, an increase of only US$2.6 million or 1.5 percent over the 2014 period.
Total remittance inflows were US$528 million for the first three months of the year, an increase of US$13 million or 2.6 percent. Net remittances for the 2015 March quarter were US$471 million, growth ofUS$8.3 million or 1.8 percent relative to the corresponding period of 2014. For the review period.
For 2014 total inflows into the system is put at US$2.16 billion by Bank Of Jamaica while outflows amounted to $227 million and declined from US$240 million in 2013 and US$267 million in 2012.
