Big jump in JSE USD Market trading

Trading picked up robustly on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market on Thursday, with the volume of stocks changing hands surging 1,874 percent valued 1,544 percent more than on Wednesday, resulting in nine securities traded, compared to six on Wednesday with three rising, two declining and four ending unchanged.
Overall, 3,636,438 shares were traded, for US$276,260 compared to 184,226 units at US$16,805 on Wednesday.
Trading closed with an average of 404,049 units at US$30,696, up from 30,704 shares at US$2,801 on Wednesday, with a month to date average of 76,029 shares at US$5,518 compared with 33,243 units at US$2,234 on the previous day. October ended with an average of 47,977 units for US$4,392.
The US Denominated Equities Index declined 0.60 points to end at 227.62.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 8.6. The PE ratio is computed based on the last traded price divided by projected earnings done by ICInsider.com for companies with their financial year ending and or around August 2024.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows three stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and one with a lower offer.
At the close, First Rock Real Estate USD share ended at 4.24 US cents with traders dealing in 9,500 stock units, Proven Investments popped 0.49 of a cent to 15.99 US cents after 3,012 shares passed through the market, Sterling Investments dipped 0.05 of a cent to 1.68 US cents with shareholders swapping 737 stocks. Sygnus Credit Investments climbed 0.1 of a cent to end at 9 US cents in switching ownership of 12,106 units, Sygnus Real Estate Finance USD share rose 0.38 of one cent in closing at 9 US cents after an exchange of 2,704,500 stocks and Transjamaican Highway remained at 1.6 US cents with 893,092 units clearing the market.
In the preference segment, JMMB Group 5.75% shed 5 cents to end at US$1.90 in an exchange of 226 shares, JMMB Group 6% ended at US$1, with 12,986 stock units crossing the market and Productive Business Solutions 9.25% preference share remained at US$11.50 after investors exchanged 279 shares.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.