JSE’s modest trading early Friday

Trading the Jamaican Stock Exchange for the first day of April is off to a slow start in the morning session with only moderate volumes and with a number of the last traded prices on Thursdays either falling back or showing signs of doing so. A total of 19 securities, accounting for only 234,798 shares have changed hands at 10.45 am as 5 stocks gained and 8 declined
After 75 minutes of the market’s opening, Caribbean Cement that last traded at $28.49 was offered at $27, while Jetcon Corporation traded at a new high of $2.99 while National Commercial Bank lost 65 cents to trade at $40.60 with a small volume.
The main market indices suffered moderate gains but the juniors fell by a greater degree with the all Jamaica Composite Index falling 45.81 points to 170,915.04, the JSE Market Index fell 40.96 points to 153,870.37 the JSE combined index ending with a loss of 254.34 points to 162,263.58 and the junior market index dropped 21.09 points to 1,904.13.