Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed Monday with gains in the market indices of just over 600 points but with modest traded volume, valued just less than $34 million.
At the close of trading, the All Jamaican Composite Index gained 662.75 points to 413,454.64 and the JSE Index advanced by 603.84 points to close at 376,703.93.
Main market trading ended with 1,668,337 the units valued at $33,203,631 compared to 1,056,249 units valued at $28,629,116 changing hands on Friday.
The main and US dollar markets, had 31 securities changing hands, with prices of 9 rising, 10 declining with 12 remaining unchanged, compared to 30 securities trading on Friday.
Victoria Mutual Investments led trading with just 334,162 units and 20 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Jamaica Broiler with 213,800 units or 12.8 percent of the volume changing hands and WISYNCO Group with 192,623 units accounting for 11.6 percent of the day’s volume.
An average of 57,529 units valued at $1,144,953, in contrast to 39,120 units valued at $1,060,338 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 41,450 units valued at $979,123 compared to 35,899 units valued at $921,873, previously. Trading for December ended, with an average of 835,037 units with a value of $25,906,477, for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 8 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers.
In main market activity, Jamaica Producers dropped $2.94 and closed at $20.06, with 48,527 shares changing hands, Jamaica Stock Exchange shed 55 cents in closing at $10.20 after trading 106,887 shares. JMMB Group rose 99 cents to conclude trading of 31,710 shares at $33.99, NCB Financial Group dropped $1.90 in trading 31,989 shares at $148, Proven Investments traded 13,400 stock units rising by $1 to close at $27. Pulse Investments finished with a rise of 35 cents to close at $3.20, trading 82,750 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund fell $1 after trading 13,400 shares to end at $11. Salada Foods rose 50 cents trading with 336 units to close at $32, Scotia Group traded 83,527 shares after rising $1 to close at $55, Seprod rose 70 cents to close at $31, with 23,179 shares changing hands and Stanley Motta lost 34 cents and ended at $5, with 15,376 shares changing hands.
Trading in the US dollar market amounted to 67,971 units valued at $16,007. Eppley 5% preference share ended at 97 cents with 2,466 shares trading and Proven Investments traded 65,505 stock units and rose 0.5 cent to 21.5 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index advanced by 1.90 points to close at 162.46.
Trading gains for Trinidad stocks
At close of the market, the Composite Index fell 0.27 points to 1,306.03, the All T&T Index lost 0.59 points to 1,708.47, while the Cross Listed Index gained 0.01 points to close at 122.09.
Trading ended with 548,561 units valued at $3,807,515 and included CinemaOne that traded for the first time in the SME sector, compared to 64,237 units valued at $1,038,842 on Friday.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 2 stocks with the bid higher than the last selling price and 2 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Angostura Holdings gained 25 cents to close at $16.25, with 19,300 stock units changing hands. Clico Investments ended trading of 97 stock units after rising 16 cents to end at $20.16, National Enterprises added 1 cent and ended at $8.01, with 87,938 stock units changing hands and West Indian Tobacco gained 15 cents and ended at $95.40, with 510 stock units changing hands.
Stocks closing with losses| Guardian Holdings lost 50 cents and completed trading of 8,195 units at $18.50 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL lost 5 cents and completed trading at $29.10, with 22,400 units.
Stocks trading firm| Calypso Macro Index Fund ended trading of 3,320 shares to close at $15, newly listed Cinemaone, traded for the first time since listing on the Small securities market with 200 shares exchanging hands at $10. First Citizens settled at $34, after exchanging 1,772 shares, JMMB Group concluded trading at $1.75, after exchanging 378,037 shares, Massy Holdings closed at $47, after exchanging 11,909 shares, NCB Financial Group settled at $8.55, after exchanging 7,333 shares. One Caribbean Media ended at $10.25, after exchanging 500 shares, Republic Financial Holdings settled at $107.26, after exchanging 4,790 shares, Sagicor Financial exchanged 2,210 shares to end at $9, Scotiabank ended at $64, with 40 stock units changing hands and Unilever Caribbean closed at $23, after exchanging 10 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Trading levels dropped sharply in Trinidad
In a delayed trading session of the Trinidad Stock Exchange on Friday, due to connectivity issues that prevented trading from taking place, the market closed with considerably lower volume and value trading.
At close of the market, the Composite Index fell 2.49 points to 1,306.30, the All T&T Index gained 0.09 points, to close at 1,709.06, while the Cross Listed Index eased 0.70 points to close at 122.08.
The market closed with 13 securities changing hands on Friday, against 19 on Thursday and finished with 1 advancing, 2 declining and 10 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with units 64,237 valued at $1,038,842 compared to 908,602 valued at $14,315,716 on Thursday as Grace Kennedy dominated the volume traded with nearly 1 million shares.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with just one stock with the bid higher than the last selling price and one with a lower offer.
Stocks closing with gains| Trinidad & Tobago NGL increased 5 cents and completed trading of 600 units at $29.15.
Stocks closing with losses|National Enterprises closed with a loss of 1 cent to end at $8, with 9,770 stock units changing hands and NCB Financial Group closed with a loss of 10 cents and settled at $8.55, after exchanging 40,314 shares.
Stocks trading firm| Ansa McAl completed trading with 1,875 units, at $55, Calypso Macro Index Fund ended trading of 80 shares to close at $15, Clico Investments ended at $20, with 4,287 stock units changing hands, First Citizens settled at $34, after exchanging 100 shares, Grace Kennedy ended at $3.05, trading 864 stock units. Massy Holdings closed at $47, after exchanging 1,810 shares, Republic Financial Holdings settled at $107.26, after exchanging 1,356 shares, Scotiabank ended at $64, with 207 stock units changing hands, Unilever Caribbean concluded at $23, exchanging 1,726 shares and West Indian Tobacco ended at $95.25, with 1,248 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE down over 5,000 points in late trading
Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange starts today with the preopening going from 2.30pm with trading opening at 2.45Pm.
Trading will end at 4 Pm in a shortened session after the trading platform became non functional across the Caribbean region today. With the long interuption the JSE is yet to inform the public and entities that that get their feed about teh interruption and commencement of trading. It appears that the general public and investors who are avid flllowers of the market are unimportant in the scheme of things.
With only a few minutes into trading only the Junior Market inched up just 8.14 points and the JSE all Jamaica Composite index dropped 5,384.11 points to 412,404.03.