Site plan of Stanley Motta’s 58 Half Way Tree Road.
Stanley Motta traded nearly 34 million on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday, helping
Site plan of Stanley Motta’s 58 Half Way Tree Road.to push the overall volume to 37,219,908 units valued at $266,712,510 changing hands, compared with 5,027,724 units valued at $221,393,103 being exchanged, on Thursday.
Market activity closed with 31 active securities in the main and US dollar markets trading, compared to a same number on Thursday, as the prices of 7 stocks rose, 15 declined and 9 remained unchanged.
Despite the higher level of stocks declining than advancing, the All Jamaica Index advanced 2,887.52 points to 399,382.8, while the JSE Index climbed 2,630.85 points to close at 363,882.98.
The main market ended with Stanley Motta trading 33,898,200 units and cornering 91 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Seprod with 798,795 units for just 2 percent of traded volume 
and Jamaica Producers with 784,515 units, also with just 2 percent of the day’s volume.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 8 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers.
Trading resulted in an average of 1,283,445 units valued at an average of $9,196,983 for each security traded, in contrast to 173,370 units valued at an average of $7,634,245 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 329,574 valued at $6,496,704, compared to 271,338 valued at $6,321,909. October closed, with an average of 290,851 shares, valued $5,213,901, for each security traded.
In main market activity, Berger Paints lost 68 cents in trading 20,220 shares to close at $19, Caribbean Cement gained $2 to close at $45 in trading 25,662 shares, Grace Kennedy fell $2.50 and ended trading of 58,498 shares at $55, JMMB Group rose $1 to $34, with an exchange of 49,596 shares, Jamaica Producers gained 51 cents and finished trading of 784,515 units 
at $24.01, Mayberry Jamaica Equities lost $1.50 in trading 34,691 shares in closing at $8.50, NCB Financial Group lost 50 cents and ended trading of 108,686 shares at $136.50 after trading at a record high of $138, 138 Student Living traded 35,189 shares and declined by 31 cents to a 52 weeks’ low of $3.50, PanJam Investment rose 25 cents to $61.85, with an exchange of 14,747 stock units, Proven Investments ended with a loss of 50 cents at $26.50, with just 100 units changing hands, Sagicor Group lost $1 and finished trading at $39, with 37,364 shares, Seprod dropped $1.98 trading of 798,795 shares, to close at $30.02 and Supreme Ventures lost 50 cents to end at $16, with an exchange of 74,822 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market amounted to 65,911 units valued at over $32,014 as JMMB Group 6% USD with 22,671 units and rose 1 cent to close at us$1.05 and Proven Investments ended trading of 43,240 shares at 19 U$ cents. The JSE USD Equities Index closed unchanged at 159.87.
