JSE up 27% with net gains in October

The Jamaica Stock Exchange hit several new highs in October but closed the month with a net gain of 7,478.51 points on the All Jamaica and 6,813.78 points on the JSE index leading to gains of 26.6 percent for the first 10 months of the year.
Trading closed with 33 active securities in the main and US dollar markets, on Wednesday compared to 34 on Tuesday.
The market ended with the prices of 12 securities rising, 9 declining while 12 remained unchanged leading to the All Jamaica Composite Index climbing 2,139.99 points to close at 400,755.80 and the JSE Index rising 1,949.77 points to close at 365,133.89.
Trading closed with 6,766,220 units valued at $113,213,380 trading, compared with 10,005,164 units valued at $94,380,140 changing hands, on Tuesday.
Main market trading closed with Supreme Ventures leading with 3,066,003 units trading, or 45.3 percent of the day’s volume and Wisynco Group with 2,131,159 units and 31.5 percent of volume traded and Carreras closed with 381,353 units with 5.6 percent of the day’s volume.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers.
Trading resulted in an average of 225,541 units valued at over $3,773,779, in contrast to 333,505 shares valued at $3,146,005 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 290,851 shares, valued $5,213,901and previously, 293,971 shares, valued $5,289,432. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares, valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Caribbean Cement fell $1.20 trading 11,024 shares to close at $44, JMMB Group added 80 cents and ended at $33.80, trading 9,658 shares, Kingston Wharves lost $3 and finished at $75, with 771 stock units trading, Mayberry Investments gained 45 cents, settling at $11.25, trading 5,500 units, NCB Financial Group added $1 and ended trading 108,157 shares to close at $126, PanJam Investment closed with a loss of 50 cents to end at $64, trading 36,716 stock units, Portland JSX rose 50 cents and ended at $8.50, with 500 units. Sagicor Real Estate Fund lost $1 to settle at $12, exchanging 26,431 shares, Scotia Group fell 74 cents to settle at $53 in trading 142,970 units, Seprod dropped $3, in finishing trading at $36, with 7,900 shares changing hands. Supreme Ventures jumped $1.80 to close at $19.80, with 3,066,003 shares changing hands.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with 36,650 units valued at $23,839 changing hands, with JMMB Group 5.75 percent preference share traded 10,920 shares at $2.03, Margaritaville closed with 125 units trading at 24 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments US dollar based ordinary share, traded 16,979 units and rose 0.10 to end at 11 US cents after. The JSE USD Equities Index advanced by 0.01 point to close at 163.30.