JSE majors drop juniors rise

Prices mostly fell in early trading on Monday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange but with lower volume than on Friday.
Jamaica Stock Exchange stock was adjusted the 5 for 1 stock split on Friday but the stock has not traded so far, but the bid is at $8.10 to buy 4,790 shares. Paramount Trading that has announced a 10 to 1 stock split has a bid at $30.60 to buy 1,035 units without an offer versus the last traded price of $29.
Major traded so far include, Jamaica Producers with 81,887 units at $8.25, National Commercial Bank 232,872 units at $45, Jetcon Corporation with 126,700 units at $5 and Lasco Distributors with 91,345 units at $7.
The all Jamaica Composite Index dropped 1,002.17 points to 188,306.17, the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index declined points to 169,420.99, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index lost 652.67 points to close at 182,489.04 and the junior market index rose 17.36 points to 2,469.57.
At 10:45 am, a total of 29 securities traded, resulting in a volume of 640,254 shares changing hands carrying a value of $13,990,935, compared to 1,938,366 shares changing hands carrying a value of $18,934,325, on Friday.
The average number of shares traded amounts to 22,078 units compared to 71,791 on Friday. Market activity resulted in 11 stocks falling while the prices of 6 securities rose.