Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market fell on Thursday with an exchange of only two companies’ shares, leading to depressed volume crossing the market.
Market activity ended with only one stock closing with a change in the price. Investors exchanged 29,646 units at US$6,434, in contrast to 272,913 units valued at US$53,621, from the trading of five securities on Wednesday.
At the close, the market index gained 0.43 points to 191.01 and the PE ratio of the market closed with an average of 12.9 times 2020 earnings.
At the end of trading, Proven Investments traded 25,876 shares to end at 23.35 US cents. Sygnus Credit Investments ended with a rise of 0.1 of a cent to 13 US cents after exchanging 3,770 units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
