Sharp jump in trading on the JSE on Thursday

On a day of heavy trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, all three markets closed higher, with Barita Investments trading more than 1 million shares for a second consecutive day, with Thursday’s trade accounting for $138 million but JMMB Group 7.25% C share traded 175 million shares for $327 million followed but Productive Business Solutions preference share trading 119.5 units for a consideration of $166.7 million while Fesco led the Junior Market with 5.34 million units for $31 million.
Trading ended, with 207,798,795 shares changing hands, valued at $857.96 million, shares up from $451.73 million, with 49,206,449 shares traded in all markets on the previous day. The JSE USD market ended with the value of stocks traded at US$55,292 from US$17,599 on Wednesday
JSE Combined Index, a measure of the overall market, rallied 1,826.51 points to 372,351.61.
The All Jamaican Composite Index rose 1,658.74 points to 410,071.11, the JSE Main Index popped 1,851.88 points to 357,899.15, the Junior Market Index increased 10.66 points to 4,193.43 and the JSE USD market Index climbed 6.54 points to close 216.21.
The market’s PE ratio ended at 23.9 based on 2021-22 earnings and 12.4 times those for 2022-23 at the close of trading.
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