Trading on the Main Market ended with 29 securities changing hands resulted in 12 advancing, 10 declining and 7 traded firm with 9,357,015 units valued at $91,768,857 changing hands.
Trading ended with the All Jamaican Composite declined by 180.58 points to close at 316,958.10 on Wednesday and the JSE Index slipped 164.53 points to 288,784.67.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments endded trading 44 cents higher at $7.94, with 6,085 units changing hands, Berger Paints climbed $1 to $18, trading 326,949 shares, Cable & Wireless settled with a loss of 1 cent at $1.39, with 2,140,830 shares, Caribbean Cement ended trading with a loss of 53 cents at $31.47, with 20,428 stock units. Carreras traded at $11.45, with 328,145 units, Ciboney Group finished trading at 37 cents, with 516 shares, Grace Kennedy closed at $43.50, with 82,650 shares, Jamaica Broilers ended with a loss of 59 cents at $17.21, with 3,555 stock units. Jamaica Producers concluded trading 5 cents higher at $16.55, with 6,000 units, Jamaica Stock Exchange finished with a loss of 5 cents at $7, with 88,166 shares, JMMB Group jumped $3 t0 $27, with 18,530 shares trading, Kingston Wharves traded 50 cents higher at $33, with 476 units. Mayberry Investments finished trading with a loss of $1 at $5, with 26,370 shares, NCB Financial Group closed at $99, with 13,121 shares, 1834 Investments ended at $1.30, with 20,000 stock units, PanJam Investment concluded trading with a loss of $1.50 to close at $43.50, with 378,000 units, Portland JSX finished with a loss of 5 cents at $9.95, with 2,000 shares. Pulse Investments settled 59 cents higher at $2.39, with 6,500 shares, Radio Jamaica ended trading 8 cents higher at $1.10, with 100,000 stock units, Sagicor Group traded with a loss of 30 cents at $35, with 4,100 units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund finished trading 50 cents higher at $14.50, with 595 shares. Salada Foods closed $1.50 higher at 52 weeks’ high of $13, with 1,000 shares, Scotia Group ended with a loss of $1.90 at $51.10, with 26,000 stock units, Seprod concluded trading at $31, with 10,600 units, Supreme Ventures settled $1.58 higher at $11.59, with 7,304 shares. VM Investments Limited ended trading 40 cents higher at $4.40, with 1,911,097 stock units and Wisynco Group traded with a loss of 50 cents at $12, with 3,785,911 units. In the main market preference segment, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.5% traded 27,300 units at $1.90 and JMMB Group 7.5% traded 14,787 units at $1.16.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “Trading picks up on JSE Main Market.”