More records shattered at JSE– Tuesday

The Jamaica Stock Exchange main market ended trading on Tuesday, with both main market indices jumping more than 3,900 points to end at record closing highs.
Trading closed with JSE All Jamaican Composite Index surging 4,326.90 points to 453,139.46 and the JSE Index jumped 3,931.98 points to a record closing high of 412,773.44.
At the close market activity, The main and US markets had 29 securities traded, compared to 30 on Monday leading to 14 advancing, 9 declining and 6 closing unchanged.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the reading showing 4 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
Market activity on the main market ended with, 2,768,443 units valued $89,385,777 changing hands, compared to 1,986,337 units with a value of $46,516,263 trading on Monday.
Market activity ended with an average of 98,873 units valued at $3,192,349, in contrast to 68,494 shares valued at $1,604,009 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 105,917 units valued at $5,288,120 and previously, 121,185 units valued at $5,621,806. Trading for April resulted in an average of 157,923 shares at $3,718,919, for each security traded.
Supreme Ventures led trading with 812,464 shares accounting for 29 percent of total main market volume, followed by Wisynco Group with 518,941 shares, and 19 percent of the day’s trades and Seprod closed with 331,163 shares for 12 percent of volume traded.
In main market activity, Barita Investments rose by $1.50 to close at $44.50, trading 4,905 shares, Caribbean Cement rose $2.20 to finish at $81, with 2,959 shares changing hands, Jamaica Broilers traded 5,789 shares after rising $1 to close at $32, Jamaica Producers gained 40 cents in trading 16,173 shares at $23. JMMB Group added $2 trading 56,642 shares in closing at $34, Mayberry Investments recovered 46 cents it lost on Monday to end trading of 11,225 shares at $9.25, Mayberry Jamaican Equities gained 30 cents trading 19,227 shares at $11.30, NCB Financial Group dropped $1.49 trading 213,612 shares to close at $147.01. PanJam Investment concluded trading 3,648 shares and lost 50 cents to end at $89.50, Pulse Investments traded 22,000 and rose 65 cents in closing at $3.15, Sagicor Group gained $1.50 to end at $47 trading of 24,788 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund rose $1.50 to end at $10 after trading 11,725 shares. Scotia Group gained 30 cents trading 12,210 shares to close at $51.05. Stanley Motta lost 30 cents in trading 1,172 shares in closing at $5, Supreme Ventures jumped 50 cents and finished at $30, with 812,464 units changing hands, Sygnus Credit Investments climbed $1 with 4,820 units trading, to end at $13 and Wisynco Group lost 30 cents trading 518,941 shares at $14.20.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with JMMB Group 6% preference share declining 4 cents trading 11,440 units and closed at US$1.05. The JSE USD Equities Index closed unchanged at 180.17.