Trading on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Wednesday with JSE All Jamaican Composite Index climbing 1,683.64 points to 408,184.66 and the JSE Index advancing by 1,532.33 points to close at 371,908.42.
Main market activity ended with just 2,541,810 units valued at $57,485,785, in contrast with 1,062,072 units valued at over $33,962,415 on Tuesday.
The main and US markets traded a total of 34 securities, with prices of 7 rising, 12 declining with 15 remaining unchanged, compared to 29 securities trading on Tuesday.
Supreme Ventures led trading with 622,892 units for 24.5 percent of the day’s volume, followed by 
Wisynco Group with 539,782 shares and accounting for 21 percent of the total main market volume changing hands and JMMB Group 7.5% preference share with 415,445 stock units for 16 percent of the day’s volume.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the reading showing 6 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
An average of 81,994 units valued at an average of $1,854,380, in contrast to 42,483 units valued at $1,358,497 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 523,805 units valued $16,891,062 and previously, 684,936 units valued at $22,375,029. Trading for January resulted in an average of 101,980 units valued at $3,042,494, for each security traded.
In main market activity, Barita Investments fell 40 cents to close at $51, with 158,787 shares changing hands, Jamaica Broilers fell by 49 cents in trading of 21,422 units at $32.51, Jamaica Stock Exchange closed trading with 
46,997 units changing hands with a rise of 50 cents to $13.50. Kingston Wharves gained 80 cents and settled at $70.00, with 3,678 units changing hands, 138 Student Living rose 68 cents to $2.99, in trading 100 units, PanJam Investment lost $1 to end at $74 with 4,680 units changing hands. Sagicor Group fell by 25 cents trading 22,412 stock units, to close at $38.75, Scotia Group lost $1.95 and finished trading of 16,288 shares at $51.05 and Seprod lost 99 cents to end at $33.51 with an exchange of 12,894 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market resulted in 61,777 units valued at $6,450 changing hands. Margaritaville ended trading 477 shares at 24 US cents, Proven Investments traded 6,300 units and rose 1 cent to close at 22 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments closed trading of 55,000 units to close at 9 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index advanced 0.33 points to close at 169.42.
Junior Market inched higher on Wednesday
Fontana still dominating Junior Market trading.
The Junior Market index of the Jamaica Stock Exchange inched 4.37 points higher to 3,174.04 at the end of trading on Wednesday, as the prices of 7 securities rose, 12 declined and 6 remained unchanged.
Trading ended with 25 securities changing hands, compared to 27 securities on Tuesday, resulting in an exchange of 2,474,682 units valued at $8,912,227, compared to 2,965,697 units valued at $11,127,007 on Tuesday. Fontana continues to trade in large volumes, ending the day with just under 1.9 million units changing hands.
Trading ended with an average of 98,987 units for an average of $356,489 in contrast to 109,841 units for an average of $412,111 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amount to 102,324 shares valued $367,381 and previously 103,436 shares valued $371,012. In contrast, the average trade in January was 2,245,428 units with a value of $7,372,574 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 2 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 3 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, AMG Packaging ended trading of 239,150 stock units, with a loss of 15 cents at $2.45, CAC 2000 finished trading 919 shares at $13, Caribbean Cream ended trading 4,664 shares at $5.95, Caribbean Flavours traded 100 stock units with a loss of 3 cents at $16. Caribbean Producers finished trading with a loss of 5 cents at $4.70, with 16,054 units changing hands, Derrimon Trading ended with an exchange of 1,100 shares at $2.95, Dolphin Cove climbed 45 cents higher to $15.50 in concluding trading of 1,896 shares, Everything Fresh finished with a loss of 5 cents at $1.55, with an exchange of 10,000 stock units. Elite Diagnostic settled 1 cent higher at $3.11, in exchanging 60,616 units, Express Catering traded 39,576 shares, with a loss of 4 cents to close at $7.90, FosRich Group fell 16 cents to $3.60 in exchanging 5,000 shares, Fontana rose 10 cents to close at $3.60, trading 1,863,585 shares. General Accident closed with a loss of 6 cents at $3.94, with 3,960 
stock units trading, Honey Bun concluded trading of 21,701 shares, and closed 14 cents higher at $3.89, Indies Pharma ended trading at $2.95, with 82,351 units, Jamaican Teas closed trading with 5,600 stock units after declining 15 cents at $3.85. Jetcon Corporation closed at $3.25, with 13,000 units changing hands, KLE Group closed 10 cents higher at $3.20, after trading 530 shares, Knutsford Express ended at $12.70, with an exchange of 15,039 shares, Lasco Distributors lost 20 cents to close at $3.80, with 20,683 stock units changing hands. Lasco Financial finished with a loss of 40 cents at $4.20, with an exchange of 42,118 units, Lasco Manufacturing settled 7 cents higher at $3.30, in trading 11,813 shares, Main Event ended trading 2,000 shares, with a loss of 7 cents to close at $5.55, Stationery and Office ended at $8.40, trading 10,000 shares and tTech finished with a loss of 5 cents at $5.80, as 3,227 shares changed hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
TTSE slips back on Wednesday
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Wednesday with 14 securities trading against 12 on Tuesday, with 5 advancing, 7 declining and 2 remaining unchanged.
At close of the market, the Composite Index declined by 2.12 points to close at 1,304.95. The All T&T Index lost 0.36 points to 1,707.09, while the Cross Listed Index fell 0.54 points to close at 121.97.
Trading ended with 619,436 shares at a value of $6,956,090, compared to 138,119 shares on Tuesday valued at $2,094,012.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 5 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 with a lower offer.
Stocks closing with gains| Clico Investments added 2 cents and ended at $20.18, with 70,376 stock units changing hands, First Citizens increased 10 cents to settle at $34, after exchanging 3,105 shares, Massy Holdings rose 25 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $47.75, after exchanging 1,112 shares. Prestige Holdings closed with a gain of 5 cents in trading of 2,730 units at $7.40 and West Indian Tobacco gained 2 cents and ended at $95.42, with 6 stock units changing hands.
Stocks closing with losses| Agostini’s fell 5 cents to $23.15, after exchanging 1,732 shares, Angostura Holdings fell 1 cent and ended at $16.04, with 200 stock units changing hands, Ansa Mcal shed 20 cents and completed trading of 2,027 units at $55. JMMB Group lost 4 cents and ended at $1.75, after exchanging 51,813 shares, National Flour fell by 1 cent and completed trading of 642 units at $1.64, NCB Financial Group lost 5 cents and settled at $8.40, after exchanging 472,460 shares and Republic Financial Holdings concluded trading with a loss of 3 cents at $107.52, after exchanging 9,725 shares.
Stocks closing firm| Guardian Holdings completed trading of 230 units at $18 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL completed trading with 3,278 units at $29.20.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE trading volume drops 95% on Tuesday
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange major indices roseat the close on Tuesday, but with sharply lower volume that dropped 95 percent from Monday’s levels.
Main market activity ended with just 1,062,072 units valued at over $33,962,415, in contrast with 22,820,352 units valued at $1,138,660,815 on Monday.
At the close, the All Jamaican Composite Index advanced by 335.04 points to end at 406,501.02 and the JSE Index gained 304.93 points to close at 370,376.09.
The main and US markets traded a total of 29 securities, with prices of 9 rising, 11 declining with 9 remaining unchanged, compared to 32 securities trading on Monday.
Scotia Group led trading with 216,870 units for 24 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Mayberry Jamaican Equities with 140,980 units and accounting for 22 percent of the total main market volume changing hands and Supreme Ventures with just 86,305 units for 8 percent of the day’s volume.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the reading showing 9 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 closing with lower offers.
An average of 42,483 units valued at $1,358,497, in contrast to 786,909 shares valued at $39,264,166 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 684,936 units valued at $22,375,029 and previously 952,625 units valued at $31,131,917. Trading for January resulted in an average of 101,980 units valued at $3,042,494, for each security traded.
In main market activity, Jamaica Broilers jumped $3 to finish trading of 66,896 units at $33, Jamaica Producers lost $1 to close at $22, with 12,548 shares changing hands, Jamaica Stock Exchange closed trading with 62,328 units changing hands with a rise of 35 cents to $13, JMMB Group fell 50 cents to close at $32, trading 10,248 shares. Kingston Wharves gained 80 cents and settled at $70.00, with 3,678 units 
changing hands, Sagicor Group fell 99 cents trading 53,111 stock units, to close at $39, Salada Foods jumped $1.25 to $39.25 in trading 1,067 units. Scotia Group lost 97 cents and finished trading of 216,870 shares at $53 and Seprod rose $1.48 cents to end at $34.50 with an exchange of 20,208 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market resulted in 236,650 units valued at $83,993 changing hands. JMMB 5.75% preference share traded 5,000 units and lost 1 cent to end at a 52 weeks’ low of US$1.99, JMMB 6% preference share concluded trading of 52,960 units at US$1.04, Proven Investments traded 26,040 units and rose 1 cent to close at 22 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments closed trading of 152,650 units to close at 9 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index advanced 3.46 points to close at 169.09.
Junior Market slips back on Tuesday
The Junior Market index of the Jamaica Stock Exchange dropped 19.89 points to 3,169.67 at the end of trading on Tuesday, as the prices of 7 securities rose, 9 declined and 11 remained unchanged.
Trading ended with 27 securities changing hands on Tuesday, compared to 21 securities changing hands on Monday, resulting in an exchange of 2,965,697 units valued at $11,127,007, compared to 3,820,986 units valued at $12,854,001, on Monday. Fontana continues to trade in large volumes and ending the day just under 2.1 million units.
Trading ended with an average of 109,841 units for an average of $412,111 in contrast to 181,952 units for an average of $612,095 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amount to 103,436 shares valued $371,012 and previously 99,833 shares valued at $347,894. In contrast, the average trade in January was 2,245,428 units with a value of $7,372,574 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 3 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, Access Financial closed 1 cent higher at $47.01, with an exchange of 1,127 shares, AMG Packaging ended at $2.60, with 31,356 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading with 100 units with a rise of $1 to close at $6. CAC 2000 finished with a loss of $2.02 at $13, in trading 1,081 shares, Cargo Handlers settled 10 cents higher at $15, in exchanging 1,390 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading 6,193 shares and rose 60 cents higher to $5.95, Caribbean Producers finished trading 203,515 units with a loss of 3 cents to close at $4.75. Derrimon Trading ended at $2.95, with an exchange of 27,046 shares, Elite Diagnostic finished trading 44,913 stock units at $3.10, Express Catering settled with a loss of 1 cent at $7.94, trading 12,850 units, Fontana closed trading at $3.50 with 2,096,413 shares changing hands. FosRich Group ended trading 35,854 shares, with a loss of 12 cents to end at $3.76, General Accident traded 183,534 shares at $4, GWest Corporation finished trading at $1.45, with 62,248 shares changing hands. Honey Bun closed with a loss 
of 15 cents at $3.75, with an exchange of 8,100 stock units, Indies Pharma closed at $3.05 trading 104,845 shares. Iron Rock ended 50 cents higher at $5, with 7,000 units trading, Jamaican Teas exchanged 100 shares at $4, Knutsford Express finished trading of 40,878 shares at $12.70, Lasco Distributors closed 11 cents higher at $4, in trading 11,886 shares. Lasco Financial ended 10 cents higher at $4.60, with 3,196 shares traded, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 23,455 stock units, with a loss of 17 cents to end at $3.23, Main Event dropped 88 cents to close at $5.62, in exchanging 9,541 units. Paramount Trading ended trading with a loss of 15 cents at $2.05, with 27,433 shares and Stationery and Office traded 10,643 shares with a loss of 20 cents at $8.40. In the Junior Market preference segment, CAC 2000 closed trading at $1, with 1,000 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
TTSE index posts 2018 gains – Tuesday
All Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange index
Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange landed the main market index into positive territory for the second time this year as the market ended on Tuesday trading in 12 securities against 12 on Monday, with 8 advancing, 1 declining and 3 remaining unchanged.
At close of the market, the Composite Index climbed 2.88 points to 1,307.07. The All T&T Index gained 3.18 points to 1,707.45, while the Cross Listed Index rose 0.35 points to close at 122.51.
Trading ended with 138,119 shares at a value of $2,094,012, compared to 65,772 shares on Monday valued at $1,823,304.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 3 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Ansa Mcal increased 20 cents to close at $55.20, in trading 94 shares, Ansa Merchant Bank rose 50 cents to $38.50, after exchanging 134 shares, First Citizens closed with a gain of 5 cents at $33.90, in exchanging 1,152 shares, Massy Holdings gained 1 cent and ended at $47.50, after exchanging 3,188 
shares, NCB Financial Group finished trading 7,050 shares and rose 5 cents to $8.45. Republic Financial Holdings closed with an increase of 3 cents and after exchanging 264 shares, to end at $107.55, Scotiabank rose 25 cents and completed trading at $63.90, with 23 stock units changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL finished 6 cents higher to $29.20, with an exchange of 40,009 units.
Stocks closing with losses| Trinidad Cement concluded trading with a loss of 5 cents at $2.60, after exchanging 66,674 shares.
Stocks closing firm | Clico Investments completed trading at $20.16, with 16,869 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Financial ended at $9.02, after exchanging 1,507 shares and West Indian Tobacco completed trading of 1,155 stock units at $95.40.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Heavy trading continues for JSE majors – Monday
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange major indices suffered sharp lossesat the close on Monday, with the market having another day of big volume.
Main market activity ended with 22,820,352 units valued at $1,138,660,815 compared with 34,337,150 units valued at $729,254,221, on Friday.
At the close, the All Jamaican Composite Index dived 8,017.57 points to close at 406,165.98 and the JSE Index plunged 7,297.03 points to close at 370,071.16. Adjustment to the average price of NCB Financial compared to that on Friday, was the major contributing factor to the sharp correction to the indices with the JSE reported closing price being $142.81 versus $148.99 on Friday as opposed to the last traded price of $145 on both days.
The main and US markets traded a total of 32 securities, with prices of 10 rising, 11 declining with 11 remaining unchanged, compared to 33 securities trading on Friday.
Sagicor Group led trading with 5,552,292 units for 24 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Scotia Group with 4,982,116 units and accounting for 22 percent of the total main market volume changing hands, NCB Financial Group traded 3,598,470 shares and 15.8 percent of main market volume. Also trading in large volumes are, Victoria Mutual Investments with 2,402,133 units, JMMB Group exchanging 2,333,919 shares and Jamaica Stock Exchange with 1,011,290 shares changing hands.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with the reading showing 10 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers. The reading is far less bullish than the reading at the close of Friday, of 15 to 2.
An average of 786,909 units valued at $39,264,166, in contrast to 1,107,650 shares valued at $23,524,330 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 952,625 units valued at $31,131,917. Trading for January resulted in an average of 101,980 units valued at $3,042,494, for each security traded.
In main market activity, Barita Investments lost 30 cents in closing at $51.50, with 5,650 shares changing hands, Berger Paints gained $1 to end at $21.00, with just 136 stock units trading, Jamaica Producers rose 70 cents to 
close at $23, with 660 shares changing hands. Jamaica Stock Exchange closed trading with 1,011,290 units changing hands compared to 2,677,014 units on Friday with a decline of 35 cents to $12.65, JMMB Group fell 49 cents to close at $32.50, trading 2,333,919 shares, Proven Investments dropped $8 trading 893,487 units to close at $28. Sagicor Group rose 49 cents trading just under 5.6 million stock units, to close at $39.99, Salada Foods dropped $4 to $38 in trading 10,084 units, Scotia Group climbed $3.67 and finished trading of 4,982,116 shares at $53.97 and Seprod lost 48 cents to end at $33.02 with an exchange of 22,224 shares.
Trading in the US dollar market resulted in 840,023 units valued at $179,653 changing hands. JMMB Group 5.75% preference share traded 400 units at US$2, JMMB Group 6% preference share concluded trading of 3,040 units at US$1.04 and Proven Investments traded 836,583 units at 21 US cents The JSE USD Equities Index closed unchanged at 165.63.
Junior Market makes solid gain – Monday
The Junior Market index of the Jamaica Stock Exchange climbed by a strong 45.78 points to closed at 3,189.56 at the end of trading on Monday as the prices of 8 securities rose, 6 declined and 7 remained unchanged.
Trading ended with 21 securities changing hands on Monday, compared to 27 securities changing hands on Friday, resulting in an exchange of 3,820,986 units valued at $12,854,001, compared to 970,997 units valued at $3,844,893, on Friday. Fontana recorded the leading trade with just under 2.8 million units valued $9.8 million.
Trading ended with an average of 181,952 units for an average of $612,095 in contrast to 35,963 units for an average of $142,403 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amount to 99,833 shares valued at $347,894, in contrast, the average trade in January was 2,245,428 units with a value of $7,372,574 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, Access Financial closed $1.50 higher at $47, with 775 shares changing hands, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 5 cents at $2.60, in trading 70,065 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading of 4,000 units for a rise of 15 cents to $5. Cargo Handlers settled with a loss of 10 cents at $14.90, with an exchange of 28,817 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading of 13,916 shares with a loss of 50 cents at $5.35, Consolidated Bakeries closed with a loss of 5 cents at $2.03, trading 270 shares, Derrimon Trading ended 35 cents higher at $2.95, with 44,470 shares changing hands. Elite Diagnostic finished exchanging 44,371 stock units at $3.10, Express Catering settled 45 cents higher at $7.95, with 10,191 units changing hands. Fontana closed trading at $3.50 with 2,781,214 shares changing hands, 
General Accident traded 18 cents higher at $4, with 8,050 shares changing hands, GWest Corporation finished trading 48,353 shares with a loss of 5 cents at $1.45, Honey Bun closed at $3.90, with 8,672 stock units trading, Indies Pharma closed at $3.05 trading 20,959 shares. Jamaican Teas finished trading 2,316 shares at $4. Knutsford Express finished trading 3,200 shares at $12.70, Lasco Distributors gained 9 cents to close at $3.89, trading 62,066 shares, Lasco Financial ended with a loss of 10 cents at $4.50, with 84,924 shares changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 500 stock units and rose 12 cents to close at $3.40. SSL Venture Capital rose 5 cents in exchanging 567,557 shares to close at $1.75 and Stationery and Office closed at $8.60, with 16,300 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Trading falls on TTSE – Monday
Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange dipped on Monday with volume and value of stocks trading down on Friday levels.
The market closed with 12 securities changing hands, compared to 15 on Friday, with just 67,372 shares at a value of $1,823,304 changing hands, compared to 971,051 units at a value of $11,872,964 on Friday.
Market activity closed, with stocks 3 advancing, 1 declining and 8 remaining unchanged. At the close, the Composite Index rose 0.99 points on Monday to 1,304.19. The All T&T Index added 0.64 points to end at 1,704.27, while the Cross Listed Index rose 0.18 points to close at 122.16.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 3 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| First Citizens finished 3 cents higher to settle at $33.85, after exchanging 2,623 shares, Massy Holdings concluded trading of 1,000 shares and rose 29 cents to close at $47.49 and Sagicor Financial gained 21 cents to $9.02, after trading 9,500 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| Clico Investments closed with a loss of 1 cent to end at $20.16, with 3,150 stock units changing hands.
Stocks closing firm | Agostini’s concluded trading of 100 shares at $23.20, Angostura Holdings ended at $16.05, with 11,464 stock units changing hands, Calypso Macro Index Fund ended trading of 1,600 stock units at $13.50, Guardian Holdings completed trading at $18, with 8,899 units. National Enterprises ended at $8, with 15,000 stock units changing hands, Prestige Holdings completed trading of 1,000 units at $7.35, Trinidad & Tobago NGL traded 3,036 units at $29.14 and West Indian Tobacco closed at $95.40, with 10,000 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE trading hits record in 2018
The Jamaica Stock Exchange enjoyed its best year ever in 2018, with trading in the main market climbing 110.40 percent over 2,590,383,796 shares in 2017 to reach 5,450,190,431 units valued at $75,469,542,096, up by 105.70% compared to $36,689,806,007 traded in 2017.
In the final quarter of 2018, trading volume excluding block transactions in the main market fell by 13 percent to 915 million shares with the value increasing 62.4 percent to $22,271,459,936, for the highest quarterly value traded for 2018, data from the Jamaica Stock Exchange show.
Trading activity fell in the Junior Market in 2018, versus the previous year, as regular trading declined 70 percent in December and helped push the volume down by 10 percent for the year and the value by 15 percent. Trading in the Junior Market resulted in 26,845 transactions in 2018 and 1,415,717,406 units changing hands for $5,848,812,746 compared to 22,230 transactions and 1,347,735,367 shares valued at $6,863,734,529.90 in 2017, for regular and block transactions.
In the US dollar market, 15.5 percent less transactions occurred, but volume traded was just marginally down to 43,576,278 units with a decline of 30 percent in value to US$8,765,761, from US$12.5 million in 2017.
With trading reaching the above levels and equating to more than US$633 million in 2018, the market has surpassed the record $40 billion or US$630 million traded in 2005.
For January this year, the overall volume amounted to 1,230,485,201 units valued at $5,675,185,083 up sharply from 201,572,646 shares valued at $3,001,143,584, last year January.
The increased trading while indicating increased buying interest in the market, it is signaling a major switch in interest from the Junior Market stocks to the main market, last year. It also suggest that institutional investors are more involved in the market than before. Finally, it telegraph a strong message about the prospects for the profitability for the Jamaica Stock Exchange should the trend continue.