Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed with 19 securities changing hands, the same as on Friday, resulting in an exchange of only 394,030 units valued at $1,640,793 compared to 2,279,940 units valued at $14,635,254 on Friday.
The market Index declined by 12.08 points to close at 2,991.60, with prices of the last trades resulting in 4 advancing, 6 falling and 9 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 20,738 units for an average of $86,358 in contrast to 119,997 units for an average of $770,277 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to units 129,302 valued at $593,087, 
compared to 136,087 units at an average of $624,758 previously. In contrast, August closed with average of 234,437 units valued at $1,295,260 for each security traded. Trading ended with the market sentiments looking mixed and having implications for Tuesday’s trading activity as 2 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 with a lower offer.
At the close of the market the volume of stocks changing hands and their last traded price are: Cargo Handlers traded 9 cents higher at $11.09, with 500 units, Caribbean Cream finished with a loss of 40 cents at $6.10, with 1,000 stock units, Caribbean Producers concluded trading with a loss of 20 cents at $3.60, with 93,333 shares, Derrimon Trading ended at $8, with a mere 903 units, Express Catering concluded trading at $4.40, with 20,314 stocks changing hands, General Accident closed with a loss of 10 cents at $2.60, with 29,426 shares, 
Honey Bun concluded trading 5 cents higher at $4.05, with 1,160 units, Iron Rock settled at $2.80, with 13,303 shares, Jamaican Teas closed at $4.05, with just 1,751 stock units, Jetcon Corporation traded 10 cents higher at $4.50, with 25,797 shares, Key Insurance traded at $4, with 10,415 units, KLE Group traded at $2.86, with 4,400 shares changing hands, Lasco Distributors settled with a loss of 5 cents at $6.75, with 10,551 stock units, Lasco Financial closed 10 cents higher at $4.10, with 9,851 units, Lasco Manufacturing ended at $4, with 103,799 shares, Main Event ended with a loss of 83 cents at $4.45, with 19,939 units, Medical Disposables concluded trading at $5, with 1,400 stocks trading, Stationery and Office finished with a loss of 9 cents at $4.75, with 26,188 stock units and tTech traded 20,000 shares at $7.55.
570,000 Berger shares snapped up
Berger Paints traded 570,000 shares on Friday and closed at $12.
The JSE market indices rose on Friday as Scotia Group recovered some ground with 9 other stocks posting gains even as 11 fell in value.
At the close of market activity, Barita Investments closed with a loss of 15 cents at $8 with 323 units trading, Berger Paints added 75 cents to close at $12 with 572,833 shares changing hands, Cable and Wireless closed at $1.04, gaining 3 cents with 13,270 units, Caribbean Cement closed with a loss of 30 cents at $25.50 with 67,941 shares, Carreras gained 20 cents, and closed at $11 with 417,758 units, Grace Kennedy traded $1.45 lower, to $42.05 with 35,700 units. Jamaica Broilers advanced $1.25 to $17 exchanging 28,943 shares, Jamaica Producers declined by $1, closing at $15 with 6,650 units,
Jamaica Stock Exchange closed at $6.50 with 4,960 stock units, JMMB Group closed at $22, after falling $1 in trading 148,514 shares. Kingston Wharves with 100 units traded rose $1.23 to $30.73, Mayberry Investments lost 9 cents, closing at $4.60 with 31,800 shares, NCB Financial Group traded 70 cents lower to $87.80 with 90,395 shares, 1834 Investments lost 4 cents to close at $1.40 with 30,000 shares. PanJam Investment dropped $3.50 to $35.50 with 22,813 stock units, Pulse Investments closed at $1.71, gaining 6 cents with 126,500 shares, Radio Jamaica closed at $1.12 trading 72,310 shares, Sagicor Group gained 40 cents, and ended at $34.40 with 15,770 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund gained 39 cents, closing at $11 with 1,850 units, Scotia Group closed $2.90 higher at $49 while exchanging 58,409 shares, Scotia Investments fell $1.50, closing at $35.50 with 1,412 units, Seprod with gains of $1, ended at $34 with 1,000 units, Supreme Ventures closed at $11, having gained 15 cents with 50,150 shares changing hands. Productive Business Solution US ordinary shares closed at 65 US cents trading 1,920 units, Proven Investments US ordinary shares closed at 22 US cents, after losing 1.99 US cents in exchanging 241,067 units and JMMB Group 7.5% preference share closed traded at $1.19 with 171,913 units.
Junior Market hangs on to 3,000 points
Caribbean Cream gained 6o cents to close at $6.50.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed on Friday with 19 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 2,279,940 units valued at $14,635,254 compared to 468,877 units valued at $2,858,513 on Thursday.
The climb in the volume and value traded is due to trading in nearly 17 million units of Eppley preference shares.
At the close of market activities, the prices of 6 advanced, 8 declined and 4 remained with the prices unchanged, based on the last price each traded at. The Junior Market Index declined by just 0.37 points to close week at 3,003.68.
Trading ended with an average of 119,997 units for an average of $770,277 in contrast to 29,305 units for an average of $178,657 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 136,087 units valued at $624,758 and 137,160 units valued at $615,057, previously. 
In contrast, August closed with average of 234,437 units valued at $1,295,260 for each security traded.
Trading ended with the market sentiments looking mixed but with an improvement over the signals at the close on Thursday suggesting that market activity could be a bit better than for Friday. Friday’s trading activity, ended with 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
The volume of stocks changing hands and the last price traded for the day are as follows: AMG Packaging concluded trading 10 cents higher at $3.25, with 39,184 shares, Blue Power traded at $45, with only 100 units changing hands, CAC 2000 concluded trading with a loss of 35 cents at $7, with 11,300 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cream added 60 cents to close at $6.50, with 100,000 units trading, Caribbean Producers ended trading at $3.80, with 49,165 stock units switching owners. 
Consolidated Bakeries settled with a loss of 10 cents at $2.30, with 9,897 shares, Derrimon Trading closed with a loss of 90 cents at $8, with just 1,597 units, Express Catering settled with a loss of 7 cents at $4.40, with 2,329 shares trading. Honey Bun traded 20 cents higher at $4, with 400 shares, Jamaican Teas finished 25 cents higher at $4.05, with a mere 300 stock units switching owners, Jetcon Corporation closed with a loss of 10 cents at $4.40, with 247,000 units, KLE Group lost 10 cents trading at $2.86, with 5,500 stocks trading. Knutsford Express settled at $14.50, with 2,900 shares changing hands, Lasco Distributors traded at $6.80, with 6,469 units, Lasco Financial concluded trading 7 cents higher at $4, with 11,014 stock units. Medical Disposables finished 50 cents higher at $5, with 1,100 shares. Main Event traded with a loss of 32 cents at $5.28, trading 87,488 shares, Stationery and Office closed with a loss of 1 cent at $4.84, with 37,210 stocks changing hands and Eppley 9.5% preference share, finished with a loss of 25 cents at $7 as 1,666,987 shares changed hands.
Continued weakness on TTSE
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange closed on Friday with 11 securities changing hands compared to 15 on Thursday and all three market indices falling.
At the close, 4 stocks advanced, 4 declined and 3 were unchanged as 236,075 shares traded at a value of $4,854,889 compared to Thursday’s trades of 381,687 valued at $1,583,237. Ansa McAL accounted for $3,081,659 of the total traded on Friday.
The Composite Index declined by 2.22 points to 1,237.33, the All T&T Index lost 0.26 points to 1,783.79 and the Cross Listed Index was down 0.57 points to close at 92.78.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 4 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
Gains| The last traded prices of the securities rising and the volume changing hands are Ansa McAL advancing 21 cents, and closing at $65.80 with 46,839 shares. Clico Investment traded 63 cents higher to $21.40 with 3,000 units, Grace Kennedy with a gain of 1 cent, closed at $2.86 with 33,000 shares and JMMB Group ended gaining 3 cents to close at $1.33, in exchanging 15,195 shares.
Losses| The last traded prices of securities declining and the volume changing hands are Massy Holdings with a loss of 1 cent to end at $48.99 with 920 units, National Enterprises closing at $10.37, after losing 10 cents while exchanging 3,045 units, NCB Financial Group lost 10 cents, in closing at $5 with 36,733 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed at $22.99, with a loss of 1 cent trading 4,502 units.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are First Caribbean International Bank trading 5,000 shares at $8.02, Guardian Holdings closing at $15 with 69,828 shares valued at $1,047,420 and Sagicor Financial at $8 with 18,013 shares changing hands.
JSE suffers set back in forward move
JMMB Group inching higher on limited supply of stocks.
Large fall in the prices of are Caribbean Cement, Carreras and Scotia Group push the market down appreciably on Thursday and strong gains in PanJam Investment and JMMB Group could only dent the fall.
At the close of market activity, Berger Paints gained of 25 cents and closed at $11.25 with 148,982 shares, Cable and Wireless closed at $1.01, having lost 9 cents with 117,235 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cement with a loss of $2.20 at $25.80 with 30,123 shares, Carreras traded $1.20 lower to $10.80 with 1,217,220 shares, Ciboney Group exchanged 367,400 shares at 16 cents, Grace Kennedy gained 49 cents to settle at $43.50 with 11,300 units. Jamaica Producers advanced $1, to $16 in exchanging 34,495 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange closed with gains of 5 cents, at $6.50 with 1,379 units, JMMB Group ended at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $23, after adding $1, trading 16,843 shares. Kingston Wharves traded at $29.50 with the exchange of 1,740 units, Mayberry Investments lost 1 cent, closing at $4.69 with 298,018 shares, NCB Financial traded 49 cents lower to $88.50 with 35,806 shares, 138 Student Living exchanged 20,000 shares at $4.75, 
while 1834 Investments gained 4 cents to close at $1.44 with trades of 6,520 units. PanJam Investment jumped $3.50 to $39 with 61,275 shares, Pulse Investments gained 23 cents to close at $1.65, with 12,581 shares, Radio Jamaica added 1 cent, in closing at $1.12 trading 305,416 shares, Sagicor Group closed with a loss of 52 cents at $34 with 4,550 units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund declined 39 cents in closing at $10.61 with 10,000 shares, Salada Foods traded 3,316 units at $8, Scotia Group plunged $4.90 to $46.10, in exchanging 117,999 shares, Scotia Investments closed at $37 with 30,453 shares, Seprod ended with a loss of $1 at $33 with 500 units, Supreme Ventures exchanged 131,400 shares at $10.85. Margaritaville Turks US ordinary shares closed at 30 US cents trading 5,500 units, Proven Investments US ordinary shares traded 13,000 units at 24 US cents, JMMB Group US 6% preference share closed at US$1.12 with 7,280 units and Proven 8.25% cumulative redeemable preference share lost 5 cents to close at $5.25 with 20,000 units.
Junior Market sentiments weakened
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange finished on Thursday with 16 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of only 468,877 units valued at $2,858,513 compared to 852,002 units valued at $3,622,384 on Wednesday.
At the close of market activities, the prices of 5 advanced, 5 declined and 6 remained with the prices unchanged leading to a rise of 3.28 points to 3,004.05 for the Junior Market Index.
Trading ended with an average of 29,305 units for an average of $178,657 in contrast to 44,842 units for an average of $190,652 on Wednesday.
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 137,160 units valued at $615,057 compared to 144,864 shares with an average of $646,228, previously. In contrast, August closed with average of 234,437 units valued at $1,295,260 for each security traded.
Trading ended with the market sentiments looking very weak and having negative implications for the Friday’s trading activity. Just 1 stock ended with the bid higher than their last selling price and 8 with lower offers.
At the close of the market the volume of stocks changing hands and their last traded price are: Access Financial concluding trading $2 higher to $42, with 500 stock units, Cargo Handlers concluded trading with a loss of 10 cents at $11, with 125,525 units, 
Caribbean Cream finished at $5.90, with 3,100 stocks trading, Caribbean Producers settled at $3.80, with 122,411 stocks units, Express Catering rose 27 cents to $4.47, with 1,271 shares,Honey Bun settled with a loss of 25 cents at $3.80, with 8,606 stocks changing hands. Jamaican Teas ended at $3.80, with 62,997 units, Jetcon Corporation settled at $4.50, with 58,092 stocks changing hands, Knutsford Express finished at $14.50, with 1,212 shares, Lasco Distributors closed 1 cents higher at $6.80, with 281 stock units, Lasco Financial closed with a loss of 2 cents at $3.93, with 21,168 units. Lasco Manufacturing ended with a loss of 5 cents at $4, with 11,454 shares, Medical Disposables ended with a loss of 30 cents at $4.50, with 2,620 stocks, Main Event gained 32 cents and ended at $5.60, with 31,572 stocks, Stationery and Office finished 10 cents higher at $4.85, with 12,968 shares and tTech settled at $7.55, with 5,100 stocks trading.
5 TTSE stocks fall 3 rise
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange continue to slip on Thursday as 15 securities changed hands compared to 17 on Wednesday with all market indices falling.
At the close, 3 stocks advanced, 5 declined and 7 were unchanged at the last traded prices as 381,687 shares traded at a value of $1,583,237 compared to Wednesday’s trades of 142,022 valued at $2,320,841.
The Composite Index declined by 3.01 points to 1,239.55, the All T&T Index dropped 3.80 points to 1,784.05 and the Cross Listed Index was down 0.30 points to close at 93.35.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 2 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Gains| The last traded prices of the securities rising and the volume changing hands are Agostini’s that gained 1 cent and closing at a 52 weeks’ high of $20.53 with a mere 29 units, First Caribbean International Bank closed at $8.02 with a 1 cent gain in exchanging 200 units and Scotiabank with gains of 3 cents, closed at $58.03 with 2,925 shares.
Losses| The last traded prices of securities declining and the volume changing hands are Ansa McAL ending with a loss of 20 cents, to $65.59 with 251 units, First Citizens closed at $32, after losing 1 cent and exchanging just 19 units, Guardian Holdings traded 50 cents lower to $15 with 10,000 shares. 
NCB Financial Group lost 5 cents, closing at $5.10 with 4,518 shares and Trinidad Cement closed at $4.20, with a loss of 1 cent trading 225 units.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are Grace Kennedy in exchanging 21,000 shares at $2.85, Massy Holdings closing at $49 with 7,536 shares valued at $369,182, National Flour Mills trading 318,544 shares at $2 valued at $637,088. Prestige Holdings closed at $10.80 with only 9 units, Sagicor Financial held firm at $8 with 1,097 units, Scotia Investments remained at $2.25 with trades of 10,000 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL exchanged 5,334 shares at $23.
JSE rise on modest trading – Wednesday
Carreras jumped to a record close of $12.
In modest trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Wednesday, the prices of 10 stocks rose and 5 fell in the main and US dollar markets, leading to gains in the main market indices, the third consecutive day of increase.
Cigarette distributor, Carreras fresh from a 10 for 1 stock split, traded at a new 52 weeks’ high of $12 at the close while JMMB Group hit an intraday 52 weeks’ high of $23.70 before pulling back to $22 by the close as supply to sell is very limited and should pave the way for upward push in the price in the days or weeks ahead.
At the close of market activity, Berger Paints closed at $11, the last price the stock traded at, after hitting a high of $12.20 and ending with 129,140 shares changing hands. Cable and Wireless gained 5 cents to close at $1.10 with 111,500 units, Carreras closed at a record $12, after gaining 50 cents with 1,134,465 shares, Grace Kennedy advanced $1, settling at $43.01 with 4,332 units. Jamaica Broilers lost 29 cents and closed at $15.75, with 12,130 shares, Jamaica Producers lost 1 cent, closing at $15 in exchanging 18,700 stock units, Jamaica Stock Exchange rose 10 cents to $6.45 with 1,000 units, JMMB Group closed at $22, after gaining $1 and trading 20,959 shares. 
Kingston Wharves dropped $2.50 to close at $29.50 with 1,000 units having been exchanged, NCB Financial Group traded 99 cents lower to $88.99 with 34,831 shares. PanJam Investment remained at $35.50 with trades of 2,100 units, Pulse Investments closed at $1.42, gaining 2 cents with 183,000 shares, Radio Jamaica with gains of 6 cents, closed at $1.11, in trading 11,000 stock units, Sagicor Group added 2 cents, ending at $34.52 with 8,333 units changing hands, Salada Foods traded 88,783 shares at $8, Scotia Group closed at $51, exchanging 16,194 units, Seprod added $1 to close at $34 with 1,500 shares, Supreme Ventures closed 15 cents lower to $10.85 in exchanging 3,703 units. Productive Business Solution US ordinary shares closed at 65 US cents, trading 540 units, Proven Investments US ordinary shares traded 397 units at 23.99 US cents, JMMB Group 7.5% preference share closed at $1.19, gaining 4 cents with 26,540 stock units and Proven 8.25% cumulative preference share closed at $5.50 with 17,500 units.
Recovery continues on JSE – Wednesday
JMMB Group traded at an intraday 52 weeks’ high of $23.70.
Activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange was tepid on Wednesday, with only $21 million of trade taking place. At the close of trading, 20 securities changed hands in the main market with 2 trading in the US dollar market.
Trading closed with the prices of 10 stocks advancing and 5 declining in the main and US dollar markets leading to the third consecutive days of increase after the main market plunged sharply on Friday. Carreras fresh from a 10 for 1 stock split, traded at a new 52 weeks’ high of $12 at the close, while JMMB Group hit an intraday 52 weeks’ high of $23.70, before pulling back to $22 by the close, as supply to sell is very limited and should pave the way for an upward push in the price, in the days or weeks ahead.
The All Jamaica Composite Index advanced 510.79 points to close at 289,132.17, to sit just below resistance at 290,000 points. The JSE Market Index gained 465.38 points to 263,432.11 and the JSE US dollar market index closed unchanged at 191.75.
The main market ended with 1,826,710 units valued at $21,069,859 changing hands compared to 5,755,768 units valued at $88,334,159 at the close on Tuesday. Trading in the US dollar market accounted for 937 units valued at US$446 bringing the total of all trades to only J$21,128,316.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and US dollar markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading is slightly biased to the upside, suggesting that rising prices should have the upper hand over declining ones on Thursday, with 9 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 with a lower offer.
The main market ended trading with an average of 91,336 units for an average of $1,053,493 in contrast to 230,231 units for an average of $3,533,366. The average volume and value for the month to date ended at $324,839 units with an average value of $3,144,679 compared with an average of 342,801 units with an average value of $3,294,050 on the previous trading day. The average volume and value for August ended at 184,094 units with an average value of $4,336,090.
TTSE stocks continue to be weak
Unilever products – Unilever Caribbean tumbled $1.11 to a 52 weeks’ low of $49.39 with 5,070 shares
Reflecting a general weakness in the performance of stocks listed on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ,the market closed trading on Wednesday with more securities falling in price than those rising and with three falling to 52 weeks’ lows.
Trading ended with 17 securities changing hands compared to 13 on Tuesday but trading levels fell by more than half with market activity resulted in 142,022 shares traded for $2,320,841 compared to Tuesday’s trades of 367,871 units valued at $5,030,961.
The two major indices recorded declines for a 4 consecutive day as, 5 stocks advanced, 7 declined and 5 were unchanged, based on the last price each security traded for the day. The Composite Index declined 0.85 points to 1,242.56, the All T&T Index dropped 2.46 points to 1,787.85 and the Cross Listed Index added 0.11 points to close at 93.65.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 6 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Gains| The last traded prices of the securities rising and the volume changing hands are Angostura Holdings with gains of 10 cents, closed at $15.25 with 600 units, First Citizens rising 1 cent, to $32.01 with 1,000 units,NCB Financial that traded 4 cents higher to $5.15 with 266 units while Trinidad & Tobago NGL rose 2 cents and closed at $23 with 7,037 shares and Trinidad Cement closed at $4.21, after adding 1 cent with 6,131 shares.
Losses| The last traded prices of securities declining and the volume changing hands are Guardian Holdings that ended with a loss of 50 cents, closing at $15.50 with 2,281 shares, 
National Enterprises closed at $10.47, losing 1 cent in exchanging 10,000 shares, Republic Financial Holdings ended with a loss of 1 cent at a 52 weeks’ low of $101.90 trading 3,633 shares valued at $370,227. Sagicor Financial declined 19 cents to close at $8 with 61,940 shares valued at $495,610, Scotiabank lost 2 cents, closing at $58 with 34 units, Unilever Caribbean tumbled $1.11 to a 52 weeks’ low of $49.39 with 5,070 shares and West Indian Tobacco closed 46 cents lower to a 52 weeks’ low of $125 with 62 units.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are Clico Investment exchanged 4,400 shares at $20.77, Massy Holdings closed at $49 with 10,780 shares valued at $528,220 and National Flour Mills traded 16,460 shares at $2. One Caribbean Media exchanged 11,980 shares at $14.25 nd Point Lisas remained at $4 with 348 units.
