Trading virtually dried up on Wednesday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market, with just two securities changing hands, compared to five on Tuesday but the volume of stocks changing hands rising by 977 percent with the value surging 1,915 percent higher than on Tuesday.
Trading ended with prices of no stock rising or declining and two ending unchanged.
The JSE US Denominated Equities Index popped a mere 0.01 point to end at 214.38. The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 12.6. The PE ratio uses earnings forecasts done by ICInsider.com for each company with the financial year ending during the current year up to August 2022.
A mere 174,820 shares traded for US$39,324 compared to 16,239 units at US$1,951 on Tuesday.
Trading averaged 87,410 units at US$19,662, compared to 3,248 shares at US$390 on Tuesday and month to date averaging 594,405 shares at US$80,616 versus 614,287 units at US$83,006 on Tuesday. November ended with an average of 79,766 units for US$10,928.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows three stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and one stock with a lower offer.
At the close, Proven Investments remained at 22.5 US cents after an exchange of 174,795 shares and Sygnus Credit Investments USD share ended at 12.9 US cents with the trading of 25 stock units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
Steady trading on the JSE USD market
December 15, 2021 by