Trading in the early Monday morning session on the Jamaica Stock Exchange has been moderate, but with Lasco Manufacturing trading 158,997 units at $5.05 
and Supreme Ventures trading 251,500 units at $4.75 to be the only two stocks trading over 100,000 units.
Lasco Distributors had 66,354 shares trading at $7.97 while Jamaica Producers traded 14,341 shares to hit a 52 weeks’ high of $46 as well as ISP Finance in trading at $3.50.
Trading resulted in activity in 26 securities, accounting for a volume of 790,330 units as 11 stocks gained and 8 declined. The average number of shares traded, amounts to just 30,397 units.
After 75 minutes of trading in the early morning session, on Monday, the all Jamaica Composite Index jumped 1,349.38 points to 178,863.59, the JSE Market Index jumped 1,206.55 points to 160,977.62, the JSE combined index climbed 1,119.15 to close at 172,249.14 points and the junior market index inched up 0.09 points to 2,234.74.
Producers hit new high of $46 – Monday
June 13, 2016 by
