Scotia Group head quarters in Kingston.
ended trading $6 higher to a 52 weeks’ closing high of $61 after hitting an intraday high of $62 on Monday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange following a drop in the volume of stocks exchanged, having a lower value than on Friday and resulted in all three market indices falling, and ended with prices of 42 shares rising, 48 declining and 28 remaining firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index climbed 650.14 points to 345,260.74, the All Jamaican Composite Index advanced 541.44 points to end at 385,257.95, the JSE Main Index rallied 418.99 points to wrap up trading at 333,493.25, the Junior Market Index climbed 34.79 points to finish at 3,674.46 after trading over 3,700 points in the morning session and the JSE USD Market Index rose 5.43 points to settle at 239.44.
At the close of trading, 10,906,252 shares were exchanged in all three markets, down from 36,562,506 units on Friday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $54.8 million, down from $153.03 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with 20,668 shares trading for US$13,498 down from 843,267 stocks at US$30,797 on Friday.
In the Main Market activities, Transjamaican Highway was the lead trade with 1.37 million shares followed by Wigton Energy with 1.30 million stocks and JMMB Group 7.35% – 2028 with 372,144 units.
In Junior Market trading, Kintyre Holdings led with 1.18 million shares followed by Limners and Bards with 777,058 stocks and Omni Industries with 719,885 units.
In the preference segment, Eppley 7.75% preference share lost $3 and ended at $19, Jamaica Public Service 7% climbed $1.85 to $44, 138 Student Living preference share increased $35.25 to finish at $282 and Productive Business Solutions 10.5% preference share popped $58.99 to close at $1,114.
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