The Jamaica Stock Exchange is enjoying modest gains in 
Tuesday morning trading as investors participate in moderate trading on the first trading day of the week. Trading volume and value were up from Friday’s levels as advancing stocks edged out declining ones on the day after the market was closed for a public holiday on Monday.
The all Jamaica Composite Index gained 380.56 points to 186,523.26 the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index advanced 340.29 points to 167,826.74, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index rose 518.72 points to close at 180,491.37 and the junior market index rose 19.78 points to 2,419.04.
At 10.45 am, a total of 27 securities traded, resulting in a volume of 659,435 shares changing hands carrying a value of $8,595,191, compared to 346,328 shares changing hands, carrying a value of $3,122,421 on Friday.
The average number of shares traded amounts to 24,424 units compared to 15,058 on Friday. Market activity resulted in 6 stocks falling while the prices of 9 securities rose.
In trading activity, AMG Packaging traded 290,000 shares at $20, Radio Jamaica traded 153,763 units at $1.55 and Scotia Investments jumped $3.90 to $33.90 while trading 53,500 units.
JSE in early morning gains
Paramount best Top 5 performer
Paramount Trading having closed on Friday at $23.95 ended up as to top performing stock since IC Insider started the Top 5 selection list. 
All selections recorded gains since they were identified as top stocks.
For the week ended on October 14, Jetcon Corporation emerged as the leader of the list of junior market stocks with the greatest potential gains followed by Access Financial Services, Derrimon Trading rose to over $4 and slipped off the list at the end of the week. Knocking at the door of the list are tTech and Dolphin Cove followed by Derrimon Trading.
Main market stocks all remained in the Top 5 but with changes in position with Barita Investments moving down to number 3 with the price moving to $4.65 and Berger Paints holding the top spot. Sitting just below the Top 5 are Palace Amusements. 
JMMB Group, National Commercial Bank, Mayberry Investments and Sterling Investments all with potential gains over 100 percent.
IC Insider started the Top 5 selection as of September 9 and with just over a month having passed IC Insider looked at the performance of all the selections. Paramount Trading topped the list with a gain of 71 percent followed by 31 percent for Derrimon Trading and 27 percent for Medical Disposables in the junior market and a 48 percent gain for Barita Investments followed by a gain of 35 percent for JMMB Group.
2 new highs on TTSE – Monday
Grace Kennedy closes at a 52 weeks’ high on TTSE on Monday..
Trading activity resulted in 576,610 shares valued at $4,655,206 units changing hands, compared to 283,781 shares valued at $1,550,600 on Friday as two stocks closed at new 52 weeks’ high.
The market closed with modest movements in the indices, with the Composite Index rising by 0.30 points to close at 1,174.17. The All T&T Index closed with a loss of 0.05 points at 1,819.46, down 6.6 percent for 2016 and the Cross Listed Index gained 0.10 points to 70.54 points and is up 42.48 percent year to date.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 5 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| Grace Kennedy ended trading 32,686 shares and closed with a rise of 10 cents at a 52 weeks’ high of $2.56 and
JMMB Group closed at a 52 weeks’ high with 291,500 units and gained 1 cent to end at 77 cents.Losses| Sagicor Financial Corporation lost 1 cent and closed with 88,411 shares valued at $634,280 changing hands at $7.15 and Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed 1 cent lower at $23.59 with 6,000 units changing hands.
Firm Trades| Clico Investment Fund closed with 158,000 shares valued at $3,570,800 changing hands to end at $22.60 and First Citizens Bank closed with just 13 shares changing hands to end at $34.95.
US$8m surplus in FX market – Friday
The Jamaican foreign exchange market closed on Friday with buying volume US$8 million more than the amount sold by dealers. At the close of trading, the Jamaican dollar’s lost value against the US dollar, the Pound and the Canadian dollar but gained against the euro.
At the end of trading, the equivalent of all currencies bought by dealers amounted to US$27,764,103, while US$19,940,807 was sold, compared to US$46,893,091 purchased and US$44,516,844 sold on Thursday.
In US dollar trading, dealers bought US$24,043,908 compared to US$44,920,559 on Thursday. The buying rate for the US dollar fell by 38 cents to close at $127.92. A total of US$18,470,128 was sold versus US$43,323,564 on Thursday, with the selling rate rising 9 cents to end at $128.82. 
The Canadian dollar buying rate rose $1.50 to $95.46, with dealers buying C$1,709,934 and selling C$598,085 at an average rate that rose 46 cents to $97.09. The average rate for buying the British Pound gained 92 cents to $155.26 for the purchase of £1,896,234 while £745,879 was sold at a rate that rose 1 cent to end at $156.45.
At the end of trading on Friday, dealers sold €89,708 as the selling rate for the Euro, closed at $141.86 for fall of $1.09, according to data from Bank of Jamaica. Dealers purchased €120,458 of the European common currency at $136.98 after gaining 36 cents. The US dollar equivalent of other currencies traded, amounts to US$13,466 being bought and selling of US$15,296.
Highs & Lows| Notable changes to the highest and lowest rates for the regularly traded currencies in the foreign exchange market on Friday, 
include a drop of $20.26 in the lowest selling rate of the US Dollar to end at $104.54. The lowest selling rate of the Canadian dollar fell $1.20 to $93. The highest buying rate of the British Pound dropped $2.13 to $157.35, the lowest buying rate climbed $1.03 to $127.61, the highest selling rate rose 83 cents to $166.05 and the lowest selling rate dipped $2.20 to $150. Trading in the Euro resulted in a fall of $1.60 in the highest buying rate to $140, the highest selling rate climbed $3.54 to $149.04 and the lowest selling rate climbed $2 to $138.
Majors dip on Friday
Bulls continue their run on Jamaican stocks
At the close, the all Jamaica Composite Index fell 610.32 points to end at 186,142.70, the JSE Market Index dropped 545.74 points to close of 167,486.45 and the JSE combined index lost 800.02 points, to end at 179,972.65, up 14 percent for the year to date.
At the close 1,362,599 units valued at $11,379,949 changed hands, compared to 4,654,511 units valued at $50,143,006 changing hands on Thursday. The junior market accounted for 647,967 units valued at $3,787,554 of the stocks traded.IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 14 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with a lower offer.
In market activity, Barita Investments traded 800 shares at $4.65, Cable & Wireless lost 11 cents and closed at 99 cents with 362,410 units trading,
Caribbean Cement traded just 5,400 shares and lost 85 cents to close at $31.15. Trading in 1834 Investments ended with 13,200 shares changing hands as the price rose 4 cents to close at $1.24, Grace Kennedy rose 21 cents and closed with 17,384 shares changing hands at $41.99. JMMB Group added 50 cents in trading 72,721 units to close at $14. Kingston Wharves dipped 10 cents in trading 2,071 shares to close at $17, Pan Jamaican Investments rose 5 cents to close at $23.30 after trading 28,628 shares, Sagicor Group rose 18 cents in trading 4,951 shares to end at $24, Sagicor Real Estate Fund traded 17,290 shares to close at $10.18. Scotia Group lost 20 cents to close at $31 with 49,983 shares changing hands, Scotia Investments had 6,100 units changing hands to close with a loss of 5 cents at $30, Seprod traded 105,000 shares and gained 16 cents to close at $22.76.
Junior stocks falter on Friday
AMG Packaging traded at $20 and closed with the bid at $20.51 on Friday.
At the close, 14 securities traded, down from 17 on Thursday but volume dropped 61 percent from Thursday’s levels, ending with 647,967 units changing hands, while value traded, declined 65 percent to $3,787,554 from $10,731,708, on Thursday.
Market activities ended with 7 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 ending with lower offers.In trading activity, AMG Packaging climbed 50 cents to end at $20 with 20,000 units changing hands, Caribbean Cream fell 13 cents in trading 12,612 units changing hands and closed at $9.25, Caribbean Flavours traded 4,440 shares and lost 20 cents to end at $8.40, Caribbean Producers gained 11 cents in trading 1,200 units to end at $3.62. Dolphin Cove traded 607 shares to end at $12.05,
General Accident closed trading with 713 units at $2.61,Jetcon Corporation had 48,500 units changing hands, to end at $4, KLE Group ended at $1.56 with 50,000 shares changing hands after dropping 49 cents. Lasco Distributors had 261,424 units trading and closed 25 cents down to $7, Lasco Financial lost 20 cents and ended with 126,557 shares changing hands at $3, Lasco Manufacturing closed with a fall of 25 cents at $4.75 with 76,000 shares trading. Medical Disposables traded 41,444 shares but lost 10 cents to close at $4.50, Paramount Trading ended with 4,170 shares changing hands but lost $1.05 to close at $23.95 and tTech traded 300 shares to close at $5.05.
Sharp fall in trading on TTSE – Friday
JMMB Group closed at a 52 weeks’ high of 76 TT cents on Friday.
Trading activity resulted in 283,781 shares valued at $1,550,600 changing hands, compared to 306,294 shares valued at $6,838,267 on Thursday as two stocks closed at new 52 weeks’ high and one at a 52 weeks’ low.
The market closed with modest movements in the indices, with the Composite Index rising by 1.85 points to close at 1,173.87. The All T&T Index closed with a loss of 0.13 points at 1,819.51, down 6.6 percent for 2016 and the Cross Listed Index gained 0.53 points to 70.44 points and is up 42.27 percent year to date.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
Gains| Firstcaribbean International Bank ended trading just 84 shares and closed with a rise of 10 cents at a 52 weeks’ high of $7.75, JMMB Group closed at a 52 weeks’ high with 150,000 units and gained 1 cent to end at 76 cents.
Sagicor Financial Corporation rose 6 cents and closed with 101,133 shares valued at $723,101 changing hands at $7.16 and Scotiabank gained 1 cent to close with 20 shares changing hands to end at $58.26.Losses| One Caribbean Media lost 10 cents and closed at 52 weeks’ low of $20.40 with 17,000 shares changing hands and Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed 5 cents lower at $23.60 with 15,348 units changing hands valued at $362,413.
Firm Trades| Guardian Holdings traded 196 shares with the price remaining at $12.60.
JSE makes early morning gains – Friday
The Jamaica Stock Exchange is enjoying modest gains in Friday morning trading as investors participate in moderate trading on the final day of the week. 
Trading volume and values were well down on Thursday’s levels but advancing stocks edged out declining ones.
The all Jamaica Composite Index gained 200.66 points to 186,953.68 the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index advanced 179.43 points to 168,211.62, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index rose 191.65 points to close at 180,964.32 and the junior market index rose 2.46 points to 2,430.33.
At 10.45 am, a total of 23 securities traded, resulting in a volume of 346,328 shares changing hands carrying a value of $3,122,421, compared to 1,933,234 shares changing hands carrying a value of $12,769,849 on Thursday.
The average number of shares traded amounts to 15,058 units compared to 69,044 on Thursday. Market activity resulted in 6 stocks falling while the prices of 8 securities rose.
Cable & Wireless traded 119,582 units but lost 10 cents in trading down to $1 was the sole stock trading over 100,000 units, but Seprod traded 50,000 and gained $1.40 to $24 and Paramount Trading lost $1 following the release of first quarter results that showed much lower profits than in 2015.
More FX bought than sold – Thursday
The Jamaican foreign exchange market closed on Thursday with buying volume US$2 million more than the amount sold by dealers. At the close of trading, the Jamaican dollar’s lost value against the US dollar and the euro but gained against the Pound and the Canadian currencies.
At the end of trading, the equivalent of all currencies bought by dealers amounted to US$46,893,091, while US$44,516,844 was sold, compared to US$32,082,105 purchased and US$32,451,077 sold on Wednesday.
In US dollar trading, dealers bought US$44,920,559 compared to US$29,052,296 on Wednesday. The buying rate for the US dollar rose by 38 cents to close at $128.30. A total of US$43,323,564 was sold versus US$26,777,442 on Wednesday, with the selling rate rising 11 cents to end at $128.73.
The Canadian dollar buying rate rose 9 cents to $93.96, with dealers buying C$637,654 and selling C$421,345 at an average rate that fell 75 cents to $96.63. The average rate for buying the British Pound declined 70 cents to $154.34 for the purchase of £1,185,165 while £627,369 was sold at a rate that dipped 48 cents to end at $156.44.
At the end of trading on Thursday, dealers sold €97,738 as the selling rate for the Euro, closed at $142.95 for gain of 85 cents, according to data from Bank of Jamaica. Dealers purchased €57,659 of the European common currency at $136.62 after falling $4.20. The US dollar equivalent of other currencies traded, amounts to US$18,329 being bought and selling of US$6,042.
Highs & Lows| Notable changes to the highest and lowest rates for the regularly traded currencies 
in the foreign exchange market on Thursday, include a drop of $20.26 in the lowest selling rate of the US Dollar to end at $104.54. The lowest selling rate of the Canadian dollar fell $1.20 to $93. The highest buying rate of the British Pound dropped $2.13 to $157.35, the lowest buying rate climbed $1.03 to $127.61, the highest selling rate rose 83 cents to $166.05 and the lowest selling rate dipped $2.20 to $150. Trading in the Euro resulted in a fall of $1.60 in the highest buying rate to $140, the highest selling rate climbed $3.54 to $149.04 and the lowest selling rate climbed $2 to $138.
Clico dominates trade on TTSE – Thursday
Trinidad and Tobago stock market ended Thursday with 13 securities trading of which 1 gained, 3 declined and 9 remained unchanged. Trading ended with increased volume and value as Clico Investment Fund dominated trading in dollar terms with the fund accounting for $6 million of the total amount traded.
Trading activity resulted in 306,294 shares valued at $6,838,267 changing hands, compared to 127,817 shares valued at $1,315,583 on Wednesday.
The market closed with modest movements in the indices, with the Composite Index declining by 0.23 points to close at 1,172.02. The All T&T Index closed with a loss of 0.13 points at 1,819.71 and the Cross Listed Index fell by 0.05 points to 69.91 points and is up 41.3 percent year to date.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 5 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Gains| Asna McAl traded 10,163 shares valued at $636,984 and gained 5 cents to end at $62.70.
Losses| First Citizens Bank traded 2,050 shares and lost 3 cents to close at $34.95, Massy Holdings ended with 200 shares changing hands at $51.99 after losing a cent and Republic Financial Holdings ended with 50 shares trading, with a loss of 2 cents at $110.98.
Firm Trades| Angostura Holdings ended with 1,200 shares changing hands to close at $14.65, Clico Investment Fund closed with 266,311 shares valued at $6,018,629 changing hands to end at $22.60, National Commercial Bank closed at $2.60 with 1,190 shares trading, National Enterprises closed with 100 shares changing hands to close at $10.16. Praetorian Property Mutual Fund with 444 units changing hands ended at $2.65, Sagicor Financial Corporation closed with 3,830 shares changing hands at $7.10. Scotia Investments closed with 20,379 shares changing hands to end at $1.80, Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed at $23.65 with 227 units changing hands and Trinidad Cement had 100 shares changing hands to close at $3.50.
