The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange in another drive to take out the record high of November last year closed March within 7,000 points of the record high.
The JSE All Jamaican Composite Index climbed 2,627.41 points to 426,180.60 and the JSE Index advanced by 2,387.55 points to 388,276.91.
At the close of the main and US markets, 35 securities traded, compared to 34 on Thussday and leading to 21 advancing, 8 declining and 6 closing unchanged.
Trading ended with 5,517,346 units valued at over $192,929,461 compared to 2,434,513 units at $93,372,469, changing hands on Thursday.
Barita Investments led trading with 2 million shares, accounting for 36 percent of the day’s volume in the main market, followed by JMMB Group with 790,749 units or 14 percent of the volume traded and 
Mayberry Jamaican Equities with 701,614 shares amounting to 13 percent of the overall volume.
Market activity ended with an average of 183,912 units at $6,430,982 for each security traded. In contrast to 81,150 units for an average of $3,112,416 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 438,501 shares at $9,851,307 for each security traded, in contrast to 468,945 shares at $10,386,003 on the prior trading day. Trading for February resulted in an average of 281,016 shares with a value of $11,715,160, for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the reading showing 12 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
In main market activity, Barita Investments jumped $4.02 to $43.92, with an exchange of 2,006,616 shares, Caribbean Cement jumped $1.50 to close of $58, with 25,100 shares changing hands, Jamaica Broilers added $2.49 in trading 5,499 units at $32.50, Jamaica Producers rose by $1 to close at $23, with 39,564 shares changing hands. JMMB Group concluded trading of 790,749 shares after rising $1.01 to end at $33, Kingston Properties rose by $1 to finish at $7, with 200 stock units changing hands, Kingston Wharves gained $1, finishing at $72 with an exchange of 9,928 stock units. Mayberry Investments lost 39 cents trading 59,687 shares to close at $8.50, Mayberry Jamaican Equities traded 701,614 shares after rising 30 cents to end at $10, NCB Financial Group rose 80 cents trading 35,190 shares at $145.05, Sagicor Group gained 48 cents to settle at 
$38.50, with 57,957 shares changing hands. Scotia Group climbed $1.80 trading 87,138 shares at $52.80, Seprod rose $1.29 to close at $43 in trading 49,920 shares, Sterling Investments lost 47 cents and concluded trading at $3.50, with 41,000 stock units. Supreme Ventures rose 49 cents to finish at $27.49, with an exchange of 173,445 units, Sygnus Credit Investments rose 80 cents with 24,000 units trading, to end at $12.30 and Wisynco Group gained 45 cents and ended trading of 58,584 shares to close at $11.95.
Trading in the US dollar market resulted in 544,623 units for US$125,266 changing hands with Margaritaville trading 3,875 shares and increased 3 cents to close at 25 US cents, Productivity Business traded 2,051 stock units and rose a fraction of a cent to 59 US cents. Sterling Investments finished trading at 4 US cents with 3,292 units, Proven Investments lost 0.99 US cents in trading 100,129 units to close at 22 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments lost 1 cent with 12,213 units trading, to end at 10 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index fell 4.07 points to close at 175.79.
Archives for March 2019
Junior Market lost 5% in Q1
The Junior market is down 4.8% for 2019 but the chart is flashing some positives.
The Junior Market closed the first quarter of the year with a decline of 4.8 percent but technical indicators suggest that a major change is coming soon, with the early signals suggesting it could be to the upside.
The market index declined 20.30 points to 3,092.02 as the prices of 9 securities rose, 10 declined and 10 remained unchanged. At the close of trading, 29 securities changed hands, versus 28 Thursday.
Market activities, was more normal on Friday from Thursday swollen volume, with a 70 percent drop in the day’s volume, to 3,378,621 units for $15,299,931, compared to 11,336,686 units changing hands at $37,683,562 on Thursday.
Trading ended with an average of 116,504 units for an average of $527,584 in contrast to 404,882 units for an average of $1,345,842 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 195,942 shares valued at $777,498 compared to 200,568 shares valued at $792,051 on the previous 
day. In contrast, February closed with an average of 235,225 units valued at $679,790 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed with a loss of 60 cents at $46, with 1,000 shares changing hands, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 10 cents at $2.15, exchanging 2,150 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading with 5,618 units at $4.60, CAC 2000 finished at $12, with 8,000 shares trading. Cargo Handlers settled with a loss of $1.94 at $11.06, with 354,500 shares changing hand, Caribbean Cream ended trading with 2,000 shares, 1 cent higher at $5.55, Caribbean Flavours traded 10,000 stock units 5 cents higher at $17.10, Caribbean Producers rose 17 cents to close at $4.77, with an exchange of 36,500 units. Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 9 cents at $2.65, with an exchange of 30,400 shares. Everything Fresh finished at $1.51, with 3,000 stock units changing hands, Elite Diagnostic settled at $3, trading 10,000 units, Express Catering ended trading 20,152 shares, with a loss of 20 cents at $7.60, FosRich Group closed at $4, with 20,000 shares changing hands. Fontana finished trading 199,144 shares, at $4.05, General Accident closed 49 cents higher at $4.50, with 9,200 stock units changing hands, GWest Corporation ended with a 
loss of 5 cents at $1.40, in exchanging 10,000 units, Honey Bun concluded trading of 324 shares with a loss of 1 cent to close at $4.24. iCreate added 1 cent to close at $1.01, with an exchange of 29,400 shares, Indies Pharma finished at $3.09, with 1,946,580 shares changing hands, Iron Rock settled 44 cents higher at $3.99, with an exchange of 750 shares, Jamaican Teas traded 1,800 units to close at $3.90. Jetcon Corporation finished trading 5,865 shares with a loss of 20 cents to close at $2.80. Knutsford Express closed 80 cents higher to $12.70, with 112,159 stock units changing hands, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 4 cents at $3.85, exchanging 55,627 units, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 5 cents at $4.50, with an exchange 145,483 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 187,738 shares with a rise of 30 cents to $3.60. Main Event traded 1 cent higher at $5.51, with 4,700 shares, Paramount Trading closed at $2.30, with the trading of 160,106 units and tTech settled at $6, with 6,425 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
3 TTSE stocks end at 1 year high – Friday
First Citizens closed at another 52 weeks’ high on Friday.
Volume traded was greater than on Thursday but with only slightly more monetary consideration.
Investors exchanged 167,873 shares for $4,736,375, compared to 117,680 shares for $4,566,233 on Thursday.
At close of the market, with 7 stocks advancing, 3 declining and 7 remaining unchanged, leading the Composite Index rose 0.30 points to 1,327.76. The All T&T Index gained 0.16 points to 1,763.59, while the Cross Listed Index inched 0.06 points to close at 120.35.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 with a lower offer.
At the close of the market, stocks ending trading with gains| Calypso Macro Index Fund rose 5 cents in trading 1,388 shares at $14.50, Clico Investments gained 15 cents and closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $22.15, with 28,760 stock units changing hands. First Citizens added 25 cents to end at ended at a 52 weeks’ high of $36, after exchanging 1,595 shares Prestige Holdings increased by 5 cents and ended at $7.60, trading 2,500 units. Sagicor Financial rose 10 cents and settled at $8.80, after
exchanging 200 shares, Scotiabank closed with a gain of 8 cents at $63.59, with 17,565 stock units changing hands and West Indian Tobacco climbed $2.59 and ended at a 52 weeks’ high of $98.75, with 315 stock units changing hands.Stocks closing losses| Guardian Media fell 20 cents and settled at $14.80, after exchanging 6,300 shares, Guardian Holdings closed with a loss of 25 cents at $18, with 1,000 units changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL shed 23 cents and ended at $30.27, trading 50,739 units.
Stocks closing firm| Grace Kennedy ended at $3.25, with 6,000 stock units changing hands, JMMB Group settled at $1.80, after exchanging 12,140 shares, Massy Holdings closed at $53.40, after exchanging 3,549 shares, National Flour ended at $1.65, in exchanging 200 units. Point Lisas concluded trading at $3.45, with 26,298 stock units changing hands, Republic Financial Holdings completed trading at $119, after exchanging 7,392 shares and Trinidad Cement closed market activity at $2.55, in exchanging 1,932 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE majors falters – Thursday
Jamaican stocks pulled in trading on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Thursday with the market falling under 1,000 points was the volume and value declined sharply from Wednesday’s level.
At the close of trading, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index lost 945.97 points to 423,553.19 and the JSE Index declined by 859.61 points to 385,889.36.
At the close of the main and US markets, 35 securities traded, compared to 34 on Wednesday and leading to 8 advancing, 17 declining and 10 closing unchanged.
Trading ended with 2,434,513 units at $93,372,469 compared to 84,511,402 units at $295,941,707, changing hands on Wednesday. Supreme Ventures led trading with 566,003 shares, accounting for 23 percent of the day’s volume in the main market, followed by NCB Financial Group with 343,382 units or 14 percent of the volume traded and 1834 Investments with 282,500 shares amounting to 12 percent of the overall volume.
Market activity ended with an average of 81,150 units valued at $3,112,416, in contrast to 2,560,952 shares valued at $8,967,930 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 468,945 shares at $10,386,003 for each security traded, in contrast to 347,829 shares at 
$10,473,147 on the prior trading day. Trading for February resulted in an average of 281,016 shares with a value of $11,715,160, for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the reading showing 14 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers.
In main market activity, Barita Investments closed with a fall of $2.59 at $39.90, with 113,888 shares trading, Berger Paints gained 75 cents to close $21, in exchanging 14,615 stock units, Caribbean Cement dropped $2.50 to close of $56.50, with 8,623 shares changing hands. Jamaica Broilers dropped $1.49 and finished trading 63,737 units at $30.01, 
Jamaica Producers rose 45 cents to close at $22, with 5,985 shares changing hands, Kingston Wharves fell $1 and finished at $71, with an exchange of 4,249 stock units. Mayberry Investments gained 88 cents trading 9,588 shares to close at $8.89, NCB Financial Group lost 75 cents trading 343,382 shares at $144.25, Proven Investments traded 100 units and rose $2 to end at $32, Sagicor Group lost $1.63 to settle at $38.02, with 92,585 shares changing hands. Sagicor Real Estate Fund traded 28,481 shares after rising 40 cents at $10.60, Scotia Group finished trading at $52.80, with 87,138 shares, Seprod fell $1.29 to close at $41.71 in trading 35,284 shares, Supreme Ventures lost 50 cents to finish at $27, with an exchange of 566,003 units and Sygnus Credit Investments lost 80 cents with 20,000 units trading, to end at $11.50.
Trading in the US dollar market resulted in 544,623 units for US$125,266 changing hands with Proven Investments traded 544,623 units at 22.99 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index rose 0.08 points to close at 179.86.
Lasco dominates Junior Market – Thursday
Lasco Manufacturing traded 10 million shares on Junior Market on Thursday, accounting for 89 percent of the day’s volume that saw 11,336,686 units changing hands at $37,683,562, compared to 6,366,628 units valued at $24,922,045, changing hands on Wednesday.
At the close of trading, 28 securities changed hands, the same as Wednesday. The market index rose 21.66 points to close at 3,112.32 as the prices of 10 securities rose, 8 declined and 7 remained unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 404,882 units for an average of $1,345,842 in contrast to 227,380 units for an average of $890,073 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 200,568 shares valued at $792,051 compared to 188,396 shares valued at $759,059 on the previous day. In contrast, February closed with an average of 235,225 units valued at $679,790 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed at $46.60, with 1,605 shares changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading of 40,500 units, at $4.60, CAC 2000 finished with a loss of 41 cents at $12, with an exchange of 2,500 shares, Cargo Handlers settled 20 cents higher at $13, with the trading of 756 shares. Caribbean Producers finished trading 20,856 units at $4.60, Consolidated Bakeries closed 19 cents higher at $1.99, with 22,000 shares changing hands, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.74, exchanging 36,270 shares, Everything Fresh gained 1 cent in closing at $1.51, trading 164,261 stock units. Elite Diagnostic settled with a loss of 10 cents at $3, with an exchange of 33,100 units, Express Catering ended trading with 4,961 shares after a loss of 20 cents at $7.80, FosRich Group traded with a loss of 30 cents at $4, with 83,394 shares changing hands, Fontana finished trading 418,247 
shares, at $4.05. GWest Corporation ended 15 cents higher at $1.45, in trading 16,715 units, Honey Bun traded 7,800 shares at $4.25, iCreate closed at $1, with an exchange of 29,500 shares, Indies Pharma finished with a loss of 3 cents at $3.09, with 235,659 shares changing hands, Iron Rock settled 5 cents higher at $3.55, with an exchange of 34,709 shares. Jamaican Teas traded just 6,334 units at $3.90, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 2,744 shares, for a rise of 39 cents to $3, Knutsford Express fell 1 cent in closing at $11.90, with 2,998 stock units crossing through the exchange, Lasco Distributors finished 19 cents higher at $3.89, with 65,017 units changing hands. Lasco Financial settled 3 cents higher at $4.55, exchanging 13,212 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 10,052,000 shares and rose 10 cents to $3.30, Main Event traded 2,141 shares at $5.50, Medical Disposables finished trading with a loss of 40 cents at $7.60, with the swapping of 7,707 stock units. Paramount Trading closed at $2.30, with 6,000 units changing hands, SSL Venture Capital ended at $1.70, with an exchange of 1,377 shares and tTech settled 50 cents higher at $6, as 24,323 stock units changed hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
7 stocks fall 3 rise on TTSE – Thursday
First Citizens Bank traded at 52 weeks’ high on thursday.
Securities trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Thursday rose to 17, compared to 13 on Wednesday but with a reduction in volume and value passing through the market.
Trading resulted in an exchange of 117,680 shares at $4,566,233 crossing the market, compared to 2,054,838 shares at $8,221,178 changing hands on Wednesday.
At close of the market, with 3 stocks advancing, 7 declining and 7 remaining unchanged, leading the Composite Index down 1.59 points to 1,327.46. The All T&T Index lost 0.52 points to 1,763.43, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.37 points to close at 120.29.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, stocks ending trading with gains| First Citizens rose 5 cents and settled at 52 weeks’ closing high of $35.75, in exchanging 50 shares, Republic Financial Holdings added 24 cents to close at $119, with 20,718 shares traded and West Indian Tobacco increased 10 cents and ended at $96.16, with 1,409 stock units changing hands.
Stocks closing losses| Grace Kennedy fell 2 cents and ended at $3.25, with 4,425 stock units changing hands, Massy Holdings closed with a loss of 10 cents at $53.40, after exchanging 976 shares, National Enterprises shed 50 cents and ended at a 52 weeks’ low of $7.25, with 2,146 stock units changing hands, One Caribbean Media lost 10 cents and ended at $10.30, after exchanging 6,500 shares. Sagicor Financial exchanged 1,700 shares and lost 10 cents to close at $8.70, Scotiabank concluded trading of 1,599 stock units with a loss of 2 cents in ending at $63.51 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL traded with a loss of 50 cents at $30.50, with 31,753 units changing hands.
Stocks closing firm| Ansa Mcal completed trading of 495 units, at $55.24, Calypso Macro Index Fund traded 170 shares at $14.45, Clico Investments ended at $22, with 9,420 stock units changing hands. Guardian Holdings completed trading of 25,000 units at $18.25, JMMB Group closed at $1.80, after exchanging 8,330 shares, NCB Financial Group settled at $8.25, after trading 2,620 shares and Unilever Caribbean closed at $26, in exchanging 369 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Junior Market slips modestly – Wednesday
Junior Market stock trading.
At the close of trading, 28 securities changed hands, compared with 20 on Tuesday. The market index declined 10.48 points to close at 3,090.66 as the prices of 9 securities rose, 12 declined and 7 remained unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 227,380 units for an average of $890,073 in contrast to 443,263 units for an average of $1,508,250 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 188,396 shares valued at $759,059 compared to 185,926 shares valued at $750,760 on the previous day. In contrast, February closed with an average of 235,225 units valued at $679,790 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed with a loss of 80 cents at $46.60, with an exchange
of 495 shares, AMG Packaging added 15 cents to end at $2.25, with 81,947 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading of 3,203 units at $4.60. Cargo Handlers settled with a loss of 20 cents at $12.80, in trading 2,894 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading of 7,250 shares, 1 cent higher at $5.54, Caribbean Producers rose 39 cents to close at $4.60, with 21,522 units trading, Derrimon Trading ended 45 cents higher at $2.75, with 35,711 shares changing hands. Dolphin Cove exchanged 203 shares, at $13.99, Everything Fresh finished with a loss of 5 cents at $1.50, with an exchange of 87,000 stock units. Elite Diagnostic fell 10 cents to close at $3.10, with 17,984 units changing hands, FosRich Group traded 87,130 shares at $4.30, Fontana closed at $4.05, with 1,669,156 shares changing hands, General Accident closed with a loss of 49 cents at $4.01, trading of 2,001,721 stock units. GWest Corporation ended with a loss of 15 cents at $1.30, with 176,087 units changing hands, Honey Bun concluded trading 35 cents higher at $4.25, with 100 shares, iCreate fell 2 cents and closed at $1, with an exchange of 122,185 shares, Indies Pharma finished 3 cents higher at $3.12, with 110,487 shares changing 
hands. Iron Rock closed 51 cents higher at $3.50, in trading 71,000 shares, Jamaican Teas traded 40,061 units at $3.90, Jetcon Corporation exchanged 58,100 shares, with a loss of 29 cents to end at $2.61, Knutsford Express lost 9 cents in closing at $11.91, with an exchange of 1,135 stock units. Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 10 cents at $3.70, after 142,685 units changed hands. Lasco Financial settled 27 cents higher at $4.52, exchanging 1,542,000 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 41,957 shares and fell 10 cents to close at $3.20, Main Event traded 3,272 shares at $5.50, Paramount Trading closed at $2.30, with 10,000 units changing hands. Stationery and Office concluded trading of 31,050 shares with a loss of 10 cents at $6.80 and tTech settled 10 cents higher at $5.50, with an exchange of 293 stock units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
2 new highs for TTSE stocks – Wednesday
First Citizens closed at a 52 weeks’ high on TTSE on Wednesday.
Securities trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Wednesday, slipped from 15 on Tuesday to 13, with increased volume but with a lower value as the market closed with 2 stocks ending at 52 weeks’ highs.
Trading resulted in an exchange of 2,054,838 shares at $8,221,178 crossing the market, compared to 728,969 shares valued at $9,898,339 changing hands on Tuesday.
At close of the market, with 5 stocks advancing, 2 declining and 6 remaining unchanged, leading the Composite Index down 0.59 points to 1,329.05. The All T&T Index lost 0.84 points to 1,763.95, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.05 points to close at 120.66.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, stocks ending trading with gains| Clico Investments gained 50 cents and settled at $22, with 4,500 stock units changing hands, First Citizens rose 5 cents rise to end at a 
52 weeks’ closing high of $35.70, after exchanging 2,100 shares. Grace Kennedy finished 2 cents higher and settled at $3.27, with 1,977,217 stock units changing hands, Trinidad & Tobago NGL jumped 75 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $31, with 32,311 units and Trinidad Cement added 3 cents and ended at $2.55, after exchanging 33 shares.
Stocks closing losses| Massy Holdings concluded trading with a loss of $1.25 cents at $53.50, after exchanging 5,910 shares and NCB Financial Group traded 2,188 shares with a loss of 10 cents to end at $8.25.
Stocks closing firm| Calypso Macro Index Fund traded 1,100 shares to close at $14.45, Angostura Holdings settled at $15.80, with 13,956 stock units changing hands, Guardian Holdings concluded trading of 1,088 units at $18.25. JMMB Group completed trading at $1.80, after exchanging 11,650 shares, Sagicor Financial ended at $8.80, after exchanging 2,510 units and Unilever Caribbean completed trading at $26, after exchanging 275 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Another jump for JSE majors – Wednesday
Supreme Ventures traded at a new record high on Wednesday.
Jamaican Stocks made another sizable push higher in trading on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Wednesday with the market, indices rising more than 2,000 points gained on Tuesday.
At the close of trading, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index jumped 3,483.21 points to 424,499.16 and the JSE Index climbed a strong 3,165.22 points to 386,748.97.
At the close of the main and US markets, 34 securities traded, compared to 33 on Tuesday and leading to 15 advancing, 9 declining and 10 closing unchanged. Caribbean Cement and Supreme Ventures ended at 52 weeks’ closing high.
Trading ended with 84,511,402 units at $295,941,707 compared to 3,652,445 units at $151,937,909, changing hands on Tuesday. Radio Jamaica led trading with 84.5 million shares, accounting for 92 percent of the day’s volume in the main market, followed by JMMB Group 7.5% preference share with 1.4 million units or 1.7 percent of the volume traded and Supreme Ventures with 945,125 shares amounting to one percent of the overall volume.
Market activity ended with an average of 2,560,952 units valued at an average of $8,967,930 for each security traded. In contrast to 121,748 units for an average of $5,064,597 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 468,945 shares at $10,386,003 for each security traded, in contrast to 347,829 shares at $10,473,147 on the prior trading day. Trading for February resulted in an average of 281,016 shares with a value of $11,715,160, for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the reading showing 13 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and none closing with a lower offer.
In main market activity, Barita Investments closed with a rise of $1.49 at $42.49, with 35,029 shares trading, Berger Paints gained 25 cents to $20.25, in exchanging 94,100 stock units, Caribbean Cement jumped $4 to a record close of $59, with 544,203 shares changing hands. Eppley traded 355 shares and jumped $1.07 to $10.57, Jamaica Broilers dropped 40 cents and finished trading 231,810 units at $31.50, Jamaica Producers lost 45 cents to close at $21.55, with 15,466 shares changing 
hands, JMMB Group rose 99 cents trading of 342,433 shares to close at $31.99. Kingston Properties lost 60 cents to settle at $6, trading 1,673 units, Kingston Wharves jumped $1.99 and finished at $72, with an exchange of 80,966 stock units, Mayberry Investments lost 49 cents trading 287,560 shares to close at $8.01, NCB Financial Group gained 30 cents trading 416,046 shares at $145. Pulse Investments gained 49 cents to finish at $2.99, with 183,602 shares trading, Sagicor Group rose 65 cents to settle at $39.65, with 334,231 shares changing hands. Seprod fell 45 cents to close at $43 in trading 53,653 shares and Supreme Ventures rose $1.50 to finish at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $27.50, with an exchange of 945,125 units.
Trading in the US dollar market resulted in 160,021 units for US$36,774 changing hands with Proven Investments traded 160,021 units at 22.99 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index lost 0.08 points to close at 179.78.
Pick up in JSE trading – Tuesday
Trading on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday with JSE All Jamaican Composite Index recovered 2,246.27 points it lost on Monday to reach 421,015.95 and the JSE Index regained 2,041.20 points to end at 383,583.75.
Volume traded climbed 30 over Monday’s level to 3,652,445 units but the value more than doubled, to $151,937,909, compared to 2,806,548 units valued $75,154,263 changing hands on Monday.
At the close of the main and US markets, 33 securities traded, compared to 30 on Monday and leading to 10 advancing, 12 declining and 11 closing unchanged. Supreme Ventures ended at a record closing high of $26 but JMMB Group 7% preference share ended at a 52 weeks’ low of $1.95 and drove the yield to 8 percent.
Grace Kennedy led trading with 1,667,776 units, accounting for 46 percent of the day’s volume in the main market, followed by Barita Investments with 551,739 units or 15 percent of the volume traded 
and Victoria Mutual Investments with 367,668 shares amounting to 10 percent of the overall volume.
Market activity ended with an average of 121,748 units valued at over $5,064,597, in contrast to 96,778 shares valued at $2,591,526 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 347,829 shares at $10,473,147 for each security traded, in contrast to 360,389 shares at $10,793,179 on the prior trading day. Trading for February resulted in an average of 281,016 shares with a value of $11,715,160, for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the reading showing 14 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers.
In main market activity, Barita Investments closed with a loss of $1.49 at $41, with 551,739 shares trading, Berger Paints climbed $1 to $20, in exchanging 1,853 stock units, Caribbean Cement lost 
50 cents to close at $55, with 41,992 shares changing hands. Grace Kennedy gained $1 trading 1,667,776 stock units, to close at $59, Jamaica Broilers climbed $1.89 and finished trading 4,783 units at $31.90, JMMB Group rose 98 cents trading of 57,316 shares to close at $31. Kingston Wharves jumped $5.01 and finished at $70.01, with an exchange of 2,179 stock units, NCB Financial Group lost 25 cents and ended trading 85,329 shares at $144.70, Sagicor Group lost 50 cents to settle at $39, with 10,211 shares changing hands. Scotia Group gained 80 cents, trading 1,672 shares, to close at $51, Supreme Ventures rose 50 cents to finish at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $26, with an exchange of 120,455 units.
Trading in the US dollar market resulted in 33,305 units for US$9,172 changing hands with JMMB Group 6% USD preference shares traded 3,300 shares at US$1.01, Proven Investments traded 21,160 units at 22.99 US cents followed by Sygnus Credit Investments exchanged 8,845 units at 11 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index advanced 0.21 points to close at 179.86.
