Slippage for JSE USD Market

Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market ended on Thursday, with the volume of stocks exchanged rising 267 percent after 90 percent less money changed hands compared with Wednesday, resulting in trading in eight securities, compared to five on Wednesday with prices of two rising, five declining and one ending unchanged.
The market closed with an exchange of 81,185 shares for US$2,499 compared with 22,109 units at US$25,157 on Wednesday.
Trading averaged 10,148 units at US$312 compared to 4,422 shares at US$5,031 on Wednesday, with a month to date average of 14,540 shares at US$1,073 compared with 15,357 units at US$1,215 on the previous day and December that ended with an average of 28,010 units for US$1,403.
The US Denominated Equities Index lost 2.75 points to conclude trading at 238.07.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 10.4. The PE ratio is computed based on the last traded price divided by projected earnings done by ICInsider.com for companies with their financial year ending and or around August 2024.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows five stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and one with a lower offer.
At the close, Margaritaville rallied 2.3 cents in closing at 12.4 US cents after an exchange of one unit, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy fell 4 cents to 54 US cents with investors trading 878 stocks, Proven Investments lost 1 cent and ended at 13.5 US cents after an exchange of 4,113 shares. Sterling Investments dipped 0.03 of a cent to 1.57 US cents, with investors exchanging 59,522 stocks, Sygnus Credit Investments slipped 0.5 of one cent to close at 8.5 US cents with an exchange of 3,146 stock units and Transjamaican Highway skidded 0.01 of a cent to 1.7 US cents after 13,522 shares cleared the market.
In the preference segment, JMMB Group 6% rose 1 cent to close trading atUS$1.20, with an exchange of one stock unit and Productive Business Solutions 9.25% preference share ended at US$11.50 with a transfer of two stock units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.