Trading closed Monday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange with a fall in the volume of stocks exchanged, with a lower value than on Friday, resulting in the major indices of the Main Market falling, the Junior Market and the JSE USD Market indices falling. At the end of trading the prices of 32 shares rose, 53 declined and 28 remained firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index declined by 3,113.43 points to 357,630.73, the All Jamaican Composite Index lost 2,868.72 points to 416,204.82, the JSE Main Index dropped 3,242.18 points to close at 351,300.77, the Junior Market Index shed just 1.97 points to 3,028.69 and the JSE USD Market Index dropped 9.03 points to 231.84.
At the close of the market, 19,118,830 shares were traded in all three markets, down from 21,539,473 units on Friday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounting to $97.78 million, down from $183.11 million on the previous trading day. The JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 236,718 shares for US$11,905 compared to 215,394 units at US$21,614 on Friday.
In Main Market activity, Transjamaican Highway led with 2.32 million shares followed, by Carreras with 1.50 million stock units and Wigton Energy with 954,011 units.
In Junior Market trading, Kintyre Holdings led with 5.85 million shares, followed by Woodcats International with 1.63 million stocks and Dolla Financial with 1.42 million units.
In the preference segment, Jamaica Public Service 7% climbed $8.60 to close at $39, 138 Student Living preference share popped $5 to $180 and Sygnus Credit Investments C10.5% lost $12.99 to finish at $93.
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