Supreme Ventures accounted for 98 percent of the volume traded on the Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Thursday, resulting from 168.7 million shares changing hands and bumping the market volume to 171,582,338 units valued at $1,664,149,762.
Main market activity ended with 21 securities changing hands, of which 11 advanced, 4 declined and 8 traded firm. In contrast, 27 securities changed hands on Wednesday with to 1,811,480 units valued at $72,434,801 passing through the exchange.
At the close, the All Jamaican Composite Index dropped 2,129.59 points to 304,965.84 and the JSE Index dipped by 1,940.29 points to 277,858.36.
In the main market activity, Berger Paints ended with a loss of 40 cents at $16.50, with 30,792 shares trading, Cable & Wireless settled 1 cent higher at $1.06, with 41,500 shares, Caribbean Cement ended trading 20 cents higher at $31.70, with 8,300 stock units, Carreras traded at $11.40, with 29,391 units, Ciboney Group finished trading at 35 cents, with 22,900 shares. Grace Kennedy closed at $43, with 132,187 shares, Jamaica Broilers ended 50 cents higher at $18, with 26,918 stock units, Jamaica Producers concluded trading with a loss of 6 cents at $15.10, with 20,000 units, Jamaica Stock Exchange finished 25 cents higher at $7.30, with 77,425 shares. JMMB Group ended trading with a loss of 90 cents at $23, with 1,905,342 stock units, Kingston Wharves finished trading 25 cents higher at $32.25, with 3,640 shares, Mayberry Investments closed 20 cents higher at $5.60, with 100,000 shares. NCB Financial Group ended with a loss of $1.49 at $98.51, with 224,896 stock units, PanJam Investment settled at $43, with 51,064 shares, Pulse Investments traded at $1.78, with 500 units. Radio Jamaica finished trading at $1.03, with 20,000 shares, Sagicor Group closed at $36, with 2,285 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended 50 cents higher at $15, with 7,820 stock units, Salada Foods Jamaica concluded trading at $9.95, with 4,000 units. Scotia Group finished $3.74 higher at $53.94, with 168,006 shares and Supreme Ventures traded 20 cents higher at $10.70, with 168,705,372 units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “Gains ecxceed losses but indices drop.”
Supreme Ventures in big Thursday trade
December 21, 2017 by IC Insider.com
Filed Under: Feature Stories, JSE Main Market, Stock Market Tagged With: Berger Paints, Cable & Wireless, Caribbean Cement, Carreras, Daily Trading, Emerging markets, Grace Kennedy, Jamaica Broilers, Jamaica Money Market Brokers, Jamaica Producers, Jamaica Stock Exchange, Jamaican stocks, JMMB, JMMB Group, Kingston Wharves, Mayberry Investments, NCB Financial Group, PANJAM Investment, Pulse Investments, Radio Jamaica, Sagicor Group, Sagicor Real Estate Fund, Salada Foods, Scotia Group, Supreme Ventures, Trading Activity
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