Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market on Friday fell well below Thursday’s level with just three securities changing hands with sharply reduced volume and value.
Market activity resulted in three securities changing hands, with the price of one stock falling, none declining and two left unchanged. Investors exchanged just 36,380 units valued at a mere $5,752, in contrast to 1,628,728 units valued at $25,369.32 on Thursday.
At the close, the market index gained 2.53 points to close at 196.84 and the PE ratio of the market ended with an average of 13.1 times 2020 earnings.
In trading, First Rock Capital rose 1 US cent after exchanging 221 shares at 9 US cents, Proven Investments ended trading 23,330 shares at 24 US cents and Trans Jamaican Highway shed 0.05 of a cent at 1 US cent in exchanging 12,829 shares.
The market closed without any trading activity in the US dollar preference segment.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
