Trading on Wednesday ended on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market with the volume of shares changing hands surging 17,386 percent after pulling in 34,486 percent more funds than on Tuesday and resulting in a 14.07 points plunge in the US Denominated Equities Index to 201.50 as no stock rose for the day.
Five securities, traded against six on Tuesday, with none rising, three declining and two ending unchanged.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 12.1. The PE ratios use earnings forecasted by ICInsider.com for each company with the financial year ending during the current year up to August 2022.
A total of 15,364,161 units traded at US$3,329,669 compared to 87,866 shares traded for US$9,627 on Wednesday. Trading ended with an average of 3,072,832 shares at US$665,934, compared to 14,644 units at US$1,605 on the previous day and the month to date averages 446,786 shares at US$71,142 compared to 324,073 shares at US$43,348 on Tuesday. November ended with an average of 79,766 units for US$10,928.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows one stock ending with the bid higher than their last selling price and two with lower offers.
At the close, First Rock Capital USD share dipped 0.46 of a cent to close at 6.5 US cents in an exchange of 1000,000 shares, Productivity Solutions traded one stock unit at $1.10 after losing 23 cents, Proven Investments slipped 0.01 of a cent to end at 22.99 US cents after trading 14,208,137 units, Sygnus Credit Investments USD share ended at 12.9 US cents, with 10,006 stocks crossing the market and Transjamaican Highway finished trading at 0.84 of one US cent, with 146,017 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
Plunge in JSE USD market index
December 30, 2021 by
