The Jamaica Stock Exchange could not repeat the surge in trading on the market by Barita Investments and Transjamaican Highway on Friday and ended with a fall in the volume and value of stocks exchanged on Monday, with sharp price gains in NCB Financial, JMMG Group and Supreme Ventures along with others with lesser gains, resulted in a sharp rise for the Main Market and the Junior Market, consistent with end of month moves. The JSE USD Market declined moderately. At the close, the prices of 53 shares rose, 31 declined and 28 remained firm.
The JSE Combined Market Index surged by 4,678.69 points to end at 342,015.39, the All Jamaican Composite Index jumped 5,173.84 points to end at 383,180.23, the JSE Main Index climbed 4,365.05 points to finish at 330,104.29, the Junior Market Index popped 70.39 points to end trading at 3,673.94 and the JSE USD Market Index declined 2.04 points to 224.84.
At the close of trading, 56,767,722 shares were exchanged in all three markets, down from 223,671,543 units on Friday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $475.56 million, well below the $4.28 billion on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 815,187 shares for US$28,912 compared to 386,163 units at US$29,928 on Friday.
In Main Market activity, Wigton Energy led trading with 15.17 million shares, followed by Transjamaican Highway with 5.60 million stocks fresh from investors’ accounts being credited with new shares following the closure of the recent public share issue and Supreme Ventures with 4.08 million units.
In Junior Market trading, Future Energy led with 4.0 million shares followed by ONE on ONE Educational with 2.89 million stocks and Derrimon Trading with 2.73 million units.
In the preference segment, Eppley 7.75% preference share rallied $1.10 in closing at $21, 138 Student Living preference share increased $33 to $233 and Sygnus Credit Investments C10.5% dipped $1.45 to end at $97.
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