Scotiabank dropped $1.90 and helped put a sharp dent in the indices on Tuesday.
Main market stocks of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, continue to have small differences between the number of winners and losers, but another big fall in the price of Scotia Group shares along with 9 other stocks, pulled the market down on Tuesday as 25 securities changed hands.
The main and the US dollar markets traded 29 securities with 9 advancing and 11 declining based on the last price for the day, with Carreras hitting an intraday high of $13 after the recent 10 to one stock split and ended at new closing high of $12.50.
At the close of market activity, Berger Paints closed at $11.50 with gains of 25 cents trading 47,524 shares, as investors continue to buy above the Ansa Coatings offer price of $10.88. Cable and Wireless exchanged 1,173,288 units at $1, Carreras advanced $1 to $12.50 with 492,727 shares, after it traded at an intraday high of $13, Grace Kennedy ended at $42.70, after losing 80 cents with 11,605 units changing hands. Jamaica Broilers closed at $17.50 with 653,854 shares trading, 
Jamaica Producers lost 50 cents to close at $14.50 with 23,685 stock units, Jamaica Stock Exchange fell 4 cents, to $6.46 with 61,389 units trading, JMMB Group settled with a loss of 20 cents at $22.50 trading 158,134 shares. Kingston Properties exchanged 200 units at $6.80, having lost 20 cents, Kingston Wharves traded $2.23 higher to $30.74 with just 2,700 units, Mayberry Investments settled at $4.10 with 12,135 units, NCB Financial gained 62 cents to close at $87.50 trading 193,108 shares, 138 Student Living closed at $4.75 with trades of 12,334 units. PanJam Investment exchanged 123,149 shares at $35, Portland JSX lost 5 cents, in trading 1,500 units at $9.25, Pulse Investments closed at $1.80 with 47,470 shares, Radio Jamaica closed at $1.12 trading 103,200 shares, Sagicor Group rose 25 cents, to settle at $34.25 with 346,129 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Real Estate Fund gained 55 cents, closing at $12.05 with 41,155 shares, Scotia Group closed $1.90 lower to $44.10 exchanging 631,765 stock units, after it traded at $49, the high for the day. Scotia Investments lost 1 cent and closed at $35.50 with 1,845 units, Seprod declined by $1 to $33 with 3,000 units, Supreme Ventures lost 9 cents to close at $11 with 218,690 shares trading.
In the main market preference segment, JMMB Group US 6% preference share traded at US$1.12 with 2,697 units, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.5% preference share closed at $2.08, gaining 8 cents trading 20,630 units and JMMB Group 7.5% preference share exchanged 51,846 units at $1.19.
In the US dollar market, Margaritaville Turks US ordinary shares gained 2 US cents, closing at 32 US cents with trades of 42,500 units, Productive Business Solution US ordinary shares with gains of 3 US cents, closed at 65 US cents trading 171 units, Proven Investments US ordinary shares closed at 23 US cents losing 0.99 US cent exchanging 64,882 units,
