Activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, resulted in the prices of 8 stocks rising, 9 declining as 23 securities changed hands, ending in 2,465,588 units trading, valued at $17,727,553, in all market segments.
Main Market| The JSE Market Index lost 511.59 points to 84,808.30, the JSE All Jamaican Composite index fell 571.97 points to close at 93,537.92 and the JSE combined index declined by 441.31 points to close at 86,588.19.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows 11 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and just 3 with offers that were lower.
Caribbean Cement traded 303,000 shares to close at $2.20 after losing 10 cents and trading as high as $2.30, at the close there were 885,782 shares on the bid to buy at $2.20. Carreras had 58,560 shares changing hands at $42, Gleaner Company traded 147,918 shares at 84 cents,
Jamaica Broilers Group had 370,909 units trading at the close at $4.50. JMMB Group, the holding company for Jamaica Money Market Brokers, traded 17,000 shares at 7.02 for a 3 cents loss but the stock closed with a bid to buy 10,851 shares at $7.48. National Commercial Bank traded 357,680 units while closing 25 cents higher at $25.50, but traded as low as $25.26 and Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.75% preference share closed with 544,485 units trading at $3.10, down 10 cents.
Salada Foods traded just 5,000 shares but lost $1.30 in closing at $9, Scotia Investments traded 10,400 units to close 5o cents up at $23.50,
9 stocks down 8 up Tuesday
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