Led by a 10 percent fall in the price of West Indies Petroleum 29 stocks fell on the Main Market with just 12 rising in driving the Jamaica Stock Exchange Main Market index sharply lower on Wednesday, the Junior Market index rose and the JSE USD Market index declined, at the end of trading with the prices of 31 shares rising, 52 declining and 26 remaining firm. Trading closed with a rise in volume and value of stocks exchanged over that on Tuesday.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index shed 5,306.08 points to end at 351,420.13, the All Jamaican Composite Index declined by 6,951.35 points to 397,711.10, the JSE Main Index dropped 5,655.23 points to 342,314.31, the Junior Market Index rallied 14.88 points to 3,358.54 and the JSE USD Market Index fell 6.53 points to 262.68.
At the close of the market, 41,686,186 shares were traded in all three markets, up from 25,150,043 units on Tuesday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets rising to $221 million, up from $82.81 million on the previous day. The JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 2,237,272 shares for US$79,651 compared to 645,573 units at US$308,181 on Tuesday.
In Main Market activity, selling pressure resulted with Transjamaican Highway leading trading with 11.20 million shares, followed by Wigton Energy with 5.10 million stocks and Carreras with 2.12 million units.
In Junior Market trading, Kintyre Holdings led with 6.47 million shares, followed by Dolla Financial with 5.63 million stocks and Fosrich with 1.61 million units.
In the preference segment, Eppley 7.75% preference share lost $1.97 to end at $18, 138 Student Living preference share popped $23.99 and ended at $244 and Productive Business Solutions 10.5% skidded $165 to finish at $965.
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