The Jamaica Stock Exchange is recording gains after it retreated on Thursday but with varying price movements with declining stocks in the supremacy over advancing ones. AMG Packaging traded at a new high of $15, Caribbean Cement jumped $5 back to $30 but with only 7,500 units trading, Honey Bun trading at a new high of $9, Lasco Manufacturing was pulling back 46 cents to $4.54.
After 90 minutes of trading, the all Jamaica Composite Index climbed 954.95 points to 178,263.90, the JSE Market Index rose 854.50 points to 160,446.13, the JSE combined index gained 999.13 points to 170,879.96 and the junior market index fell 21.42 points to 2,169.12. In trading, 35 securities were active and accounted for 2,203,876 units changed hands with 11 stocks rising and 15 falling.
JSE make gains on Friday morning
January 29, 2016 by
