Trading on Jamaica Stock Exchange the pulled back when trading ended on Friday to 4,761,651 shares valued at $85,619,819, in contrast with 5,854,377 shares valued at $100,038,878 trading on Thursday.
Market activity closed with 25 securities changing hands, leading to the prices of 6 stocks rising, 10 declining and 9 trading firm.
At the close of the market the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index increased by 309.91 points to 315,465.77 and the JSE Index advanced by 282.36 points to 287,424.99.
In main market activity, Berger Paints closed at $17.35, with 834 shares changing hands, Cable & Wireless ended at $1.35, with 1,181,313 stock units, Carreras concluded trading with a loss of 2 cents at $11.15, with 24,490 units, 
Caribbean Cement finished with a loss of $1 at $33.50, with 250 shares, Grace Kennedy ended trading with a loss of 50 cents at $43, with 270,534 shares. Jamaica Broilers traded 50 cents higher at $18.40, with 50,332 stock units, Jamaica Producers finished trading with a loss of $1 at $16, with 249,118 units, Jamaica Stock Exchange closed at $6.50, with 7,160 shares, JMMB Group ended with a loss of 50 cents at $24.50, with 794,325 shares. Kingston Wharves finished at $34, with 486 stock units, Mayberry Investments settled with a loss of 20 cents at $5.80, with 83,551 units, NCB Financial Group ended trading with a loss of 60 cents at $100, with 78,413 shares, 1834 Investments traded at $1.30, with 33,568 shares. PanJam Investment closed 50 cents higher at $40, with 75,105 stock units, Pulse Investments concluded trading at $1.80, with 18,100 shares, Radio Jamaica finished at $1.05, with 33,883 shares, 
Sagicor Group settled with a loss of 75 cents at $35.25, with 76,055 shares. Sagicor Real Estate Fund settled at $14.50, with 10,181 shares Salada Foods ended trading at $10.50, with 49,471 stock units, Scotia Group traded 50 cents higher at $53.50, with 429,195 units, Seprod finished trading 50 cents higher at $34, with 9,415 shares, Sterling Investments closed with a loss of $1.90 at 52 weeks’ low of $11.10, with 500 shares. Supreme Ventures ended with a loss of 44 cents at $11.56, with 22,220 shares, Victoria Mutual Investments concluded trading 7 cents higher at $4.20, with 585,229 stock units and Wisynco Group finished 44 cents higher at $10.75, with 677,923 units trading.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “JSE main market in moderate gain – Friday.”
7 days of gains for Junior Market
The Junior Market has gone on to record the 7 straight days with gains in the index and 9 days with just a minor loss of just a 2.24 points on January 24, breaking the trend.
On Friday he market closed with a gain of 39.51 points to close at 2,976.06 with a rise of 9 percent in 2018. Market activity on Friday, ended with the prices of 8 securities rising, 6 falling and 6 remaining unchanged as 20 securities changed hands. Trading resulted in an exchange of 1,098,374 units valued at $4,214,988 compared to 12,575,728 units valued at $149,826,461 on Thursday from 22 securities changing hands.
Trading ended with an average of 54,919 units for an average of $210,749 in contrast to 571,624 units for an average of $6,810,294 on Thursday. Trading ended with an average of 325,574 units for an average of $3,667,654 in contrast to January that closed with an average of 122,386 shares, valued at $489,704 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ending with the bid higher than the last selling price and 2 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed $2 higher at $47.40, trading 650 shares, AMG Packaging ended at $2, with 53,964 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading with a loss of $1 at $34, with 250 units, Caribbean Cream ended trading with a loss of 1 cent at $5.50, with 18,266 shares, Caribbean Producers finished trading 42 cents higher at $4.75, with 936 units. Consolidated Bakeries closed 2 cents higher at $2, with 10,000 shares, Eppley settled 25 cents higher at $12.75, with 1,571 units, Express Catering ended trading with a loss of 7 cents at $4.88, with 10,849 shares, FosRich Group traded at $2.70, with 246,729 shares. General Accident finished trading at $2.80, with 33,551 shares, GWest Corporation closed at $3.20, with 182,354 stock units,
Honey Bun ended 10 cents higher at $5.10, with 21,920 units, Jamaican Teas closed with a loss of 35 cents at $4.25, with 54,413 shares. Jetcon Corporation ended trading with a loss of 50 cents at $4.10, with 12,750 stock units, KLE Group finished trading with a loss of 33 cents at $2.20, with 890 shares, Knutsford Express closed 50 cents higher at $14.50, with 1,576 shares, Lasco Distributors ended 45 cents higher at $4.95, with 140,940 shares, Lasco Financial concluded trading at $5.25, with 71,592 stock units and Lasco Manufacturing finished at $4.50, with 227,673 units. In the junior market preference segment, Eppley 8.25% ended trading 45 cents higher at $5.45, with 7,500 units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
4 Trinidad stocks rise 2 fall on Friday
Grace Kennedy traded at a new high on the TTSE on Friday
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Friday with trading in 12 securities against 15 on Thursday, with 4 stocks advancing, 2 declining and 6 remaining unchanged.
At close the Composite Index rose 0.87 points to 1,275.08, the All T&T Indexgained 0.28 points to 1,707.08, while Cross Listed Index added just 0.20 points to end at 113.77.
Market activity ended with 93,884 shares with a value of $1,571,326 traded, compared to 128,336 shares with a value of $4,248,142 on Thursday.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| First Citizens gained 1 cent to conclude trading at $32.01, with 31,544 shares changing hands, Grace Kennedy rose 4 cents and finished at a 52 weeks’ high of $3.51, with 1,385 units, Massy Holdings closed with 1 cents gain and finished at $47.50, with 8,559 stock units changing hands and 
Trinidad & Tobago NGL gained 10 cents and finished at $26.61, with 1,900 units.
Losses| National Flourshare fell 5 cents, in finishing at $1.90, with 16,503 shares trading and Unilever Caribbean ended trading with a fall of 1 cent to $28.99, exchanging just 5 shares.
Firm Traded| Ansa Mcal closed at $61 with 77 units changing hands,Clico Investments ended trading at $20.50, with 1,000 units, First Caribbean International Bank finished at $9.30, trading 1,060 shares, JMMB Group finished at $1.85, with 7,651 stock units changing hands. LJ Williams B share ended at 70 cents, with 24,000 units traded and NCB Financial Group closed at $6.60, in trading just 200.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Trading volume falls on JSE – Thursday
Wisynco, producers of Wata, traded 1.5 million shares on Thursday.
Market activity closed with 23 securities changing hands, leading to the prices of 11 stocks rising, 7 declining and 5 trading firm.
At the close of the market the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index fell by 791.51 points to 315,155.86 and the JSE Index declined by 721.16 points to 287,142.63.
In main market activity, Berger Paints closed at $17.35, with 8,986 shares, Cable & Wireless concluded trading with a loss of 1 cent at $1.35, with 10,843 units, Carreras finished 17 cents higher at $11.17, with 750,303 shares, Grace Kennedy traded 40 cents higher at $43.50, with 65,011 stock units, Jamaica Broilers finished trading with a loss of 11 cents at $17.90, with 15,579 units. Jamaica Producers closed 10 cents higher at $17, with 4,373 shares,
JMMB Group ended trading at $25, with 1,540,700 shares, Kingston Wharves settled 50 cents higher at $34, with 28,000 units, Mayberry Investments ended trading 1 cent higher at $6, with 19,473 shares. NCB Financial Group traded with a loss of 24 cents at $100.60, with 131,321 shares, 138 Student Living ended at $6.15, with 100 shares, PanJam Investment ended with a loss of 1.50 cents at $39.50, with 6,142 units, Pulse Investments finished at $1.80, with 5,766 shares, Radio Jamaica settled with a loss of 2 cents at $1.05, with 26,107 shares. Sagicor Group ended trading 40 cents higher at $36, with 16,220 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended trading 49 cents higher at $14.50, with 1,071,797 shares, 
Scotia Group finished trading 1 cent higher at $53, with 21,044 shares, Seprod closed $3.50 higher at $33.50, with 879 shares trading, Supreme Ventures concluded trading 2 cents higher at $12, with 133,955 stock units. Victoria Mutual Investments finished 3 cents higher at $4.13, with 231,077 units, Wisynco Group settled with a loss of 1.68 cents at $10.31, with 1,495,101 shares In the main market preference segment, JMMB Group closed with a loss of 2 cents at $1.15, with 271,400 shares and Proven Investments settled at $5.90, with 200 units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “JSE Main market lost ground – Thursday.”
JSE main market lost ground – Thursday
JMMB Group had most shares trading on Thursday.
Main and US market activities ended with 10 stocks rising, 11 declining and 6 trading firm as 24 securities traded, versus 29 on Wednesday, including 1 from the US market.
Main market activity ended with 5,854,377 shares valued at $100,038,878 trading, in contrast with 17,559,021 shares valued at $97,721,084 on Wednesday.
The US market traded 39,500 units with a value of US$9,085 with the JSE US Equities Index gained 2.24 points to end at 174.33. Trading ended with Proven Investments exchanging 39,500 ordinary shares, at 22.5 US cents.
Market activity ended with an average of 254,538 units valued at an average of $4,349,516 for each security traded, in contrast to 650,334 units for an average of $3,619,299 on Wednesday.
January closed with average of 239,900 units valued at $5,158,193 for each security traded.IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and the US dollar markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 9 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Major price changes at the close of the market are, PanJam Investment lost $1.50 and Seprod jumped $3.50. The volume traded was dominated by JMMB Group that closed with 1,540,700 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund with 1,071,797 units and Wisynco Group trading 1,495,101 units and fell $1.68.
For more details of market activities see – Trading volume falls on JSE – Thursday.
Junior Market rose for 6 straight days
Knutsford Express traded 10 million shares on Thursday.
The Junior Market recorded gains in the index each day since Monday January 22, to the close of Thursday with just a 2.24 points fall on January 24, breaking the trend. The market closed with a gain of 14.34 points to close at 2,936.55.
Market activities ended with the prices of 9 securities advanced, 6 declined and 7 remained unchanged.
At the close of market activities on, 22 securities changed hands, resulting in an exchange of 12,575,728 units valued at $149,826,461 compared to 4,216,943 units valued at $15,584,380 from 25 securities changing hands, on Wednesday. Knutsford Express traded 10,042,962 shares accounting for 80 percent of total volume traded.
Trading ended with an average of 571,624 units for an average of $6,810,294 in contrast to 168,678 units for an average of $623,375 on Wednesday. January closed with an average of 122,386 shares valued at $489,704 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ending with the bid higher than the last selling price and 3 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed with a loss of $2.60 at $45.40, with 200 shares trading, AMG Packaging ended at $2, with 149,481 stock units, CAC 2000 finished with a loss of 5 cents at $8.65, with 206 shares, Caribbean Producers rose 3 cents to close at $4.33, with 29,258 units, Derrimon Trading concluded trading 12 cents higher at $7.12, with 3,817 shares. Eppley settled at $12.50, with 4,789 units, Express Catering ended trading 45 cents higher at $4.95, with 46,343 shares, FosRich Group traded 20 cents higher at $2.70, with 99,079 shares, General Accident finished trading with a loss of 5 cents at $2.80, with 8,512 shares. GWest Corporation closed at $3.20, with 1,429,709 stock units, Honey Bun ended at $5, with 1,620 units, Jamaican Teas settled at $4.60, with 71,295 shares,
Jetcon Corporation ended trading 10 cents higher at $4.60, with 9,500 stock units. Knutsford Express closed with a loss of $1 at $14, with 10,042,962 shares, Lasco Distributors ended 50 cents higher at $4.50, with 26,449 shares, Lasco Financial concluded trading 10 cents higher at $5.25, with 196,905 stock units, Lasco Manufacturing finished 10 cents higher at $4.50, with 346,468 units. Main Event settled at $5.70, with 1,594 shares, Paramount Trading traded at $3.40, with 12,000 shares, Stationery and Office finished trading with a loss of 5 cents at $5, with 23,781 stock units and tTech ended 5 cents higher at $6, with 7,500 shares. In the junior market preference segment, Eppley 8.25% concluded trading with a loss of 40 cents at 52 weeks’ low of $5, with 64,260 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
2 Trinidad stocks rise 6 fall on Thursday
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Thursday, with trading in 15 securities, against 16 on Wednesday, with 2 stocks advancing, 6 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
At close the Composite Index rose 1.68 points to 1,274.21, the All T&T Indexgained 3.03 points to 1,706.80, while Cross Listed Index closed added just 0.04 points to end at 113.57.
Market activity ended with 128,336 shares with a value of $4,248,142 traded, compared to 334,468 shares with a value of $9,456,041 on Wednesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| Ansa Mcal closed at $61, with 200 units and Unilever Caribbean ended trading with an increase of 1 cent to close at $29, trading 320 shares.
Losses| First Citizens closed with a loss of 1 cent at $32, trading 53,628 shares, National Flour share fell 4 cents, in finishing at $1.95, with 5,000 shares trading,
Sagicor Financial closed with a fall of 1 cent to $7.89, with 2,565 units changing hands. Scotiabank finished 69 cents lower to close trading at $61.31, with 1,005 stock units changing hands, Trinidad & Tobago NGL shed 3 cents and ended at $26.51, with 10,323 units and West Indian Tobacco finished trading with a loss of 1 cent and ended at $88.50, with 2,650 stock units changing hands.
Firm Traded| Agostini’s closed trading with 196 shares at $20.76, Clico Investments ended at $20.50, with 3,643 units, JMMB Group finished at $1.85, with 6,000 stock units changing hands., Massy Holdings concluded trading at $47.49, with 2,532 units changing hands. National Enterprises ended at $9.67, with 2,000 units, NCB Financial Group closed at $6.60, in trading 23,223 shares and Republic Financial Holdings finished at $101.50, with 15,051 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Big surge in JSE Main market – Wednesday
The Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended January with strong gains in the market indices, with JSE All Jamaican Composite Index jumping 2,844.76 points to 315,947.37 and the JSE Index climbing 2,591.90 points to 287,863.79, marginally down for the year to date.
Main and US market activities ended with 9 stocks rising, 10 declining and 10 trading firm as 29 securities traded, versus 31 on Wednesday, including 2 from the US market.
Main market activity surged to 17,559,021 shares valued at $97,721,084 with just two stocks accounting for 88 percent of the volume. In contrast with 4,096,473 shares valued at $78,829,626 traded on Wednesday.
The US market traded 9,262 units with a value of US$29,441 with the JSE US Equities Index declining 2.23 points to end at 172.09 for a 3.6 percent rise from the 2017 close. Trading in this market ended with Productivity Business closing at 55 US cents with 25,294 shares and Proven Investments trading 68,968 ordinary shares, to close with a loss of 0.5 cents at 22.5 US cents.
Market activity ended with an average of 650,334 shares valued at $3,619,299, in contrast to 146,303 shares valued at $2,815,344 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 239,900 units valued at $5,158,193 and previously 220,146 units valued at $5,239,823. December closed with average of 686,156 units valued at an average of $8,654,832 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and the US dollar markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 10 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with a lower offer.
Major price changes at the close of the market are, Caribbean Cement gained $1.50 and JMMB Group climbed $1. The volume traded was dominated by Cable & Wireless with an exchange of 11,351,768 shares and Wisynco Group trading 4,146,449 units.
For more details of market activities see – C&W and Wisynco in big trades on JSE .
C&W and Wisynco in big trades on JSE
Cable & Wireless with an exchange of 11,351,768 shares and Wisynco Group trading 4,146,449 units dominated trading with 88 percent of volume on the main market on Wednesday.
Market activity closed with 27 securities changing hands, leading to 17,559,021 shares valued at $97,721,084 changing hands. At the close the prices of 8 stocks rose, 10 declined and 9 traded firm.
At the close of the market the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index jumped 2,844.76 points to 315,947.37 and the JSE Index surged 2,591.90 points to 287,863.79.
In main market activity, Barita Investments ended with a loss of 50 cents at $7.50, with 100 stock units, Berger Paints closed with a loss of 15 cents at $17.35, with 143,691 shares, Cable & Wireless concluded trading at $1.36, with 11,351,768 units, Carreras finished with a loss of 25 cents at $11, with 799,248 shares, Caribbean Cement settled $1.50 higher at $34.50, with 26,394 shares. Grace Kennedy traded at $43.10, with 7,210 stock units, Jamaica Broilers finished trading 51 cents higher at $18.01, with 27,100 units, Jamaica Producers closed 40 cents higher at $16.90, with 17,262 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with a loss of 50 cents at $6.50, with 86,312 shares. JMMB Group concluded trading $1 higher at $25, with 107,680 shares, Kingston Wharves settled at $33.50, with 24,000 units, Mayberry Investments ended trading with a loss of 1 cent at $5.99, with 1,270 shares, NCB Financial Group traded with a loss of 1 cent at $100.84, with 99,261 shares. 1834 Investments finished trading 10 cents higher at $1.30, with 11,877 shares, Pulse Investments ended with a loss of 19 cents at $1.80, with 30,876 shares, Radio Jamaica settled 2 cents higher at $1.07, with 17,435 shares, Sagicor Group ended trading with a loss of 40 cents at $35.60, with 126,082 stock units. Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended trading with a loss of 49 cents at $14.01, with 19,627 shares, 
Salada Foods traded with a loss of 50 cents at $10.50, with 1,355 units, Scotia Group finished trading 4 cents higher at $52.99, with 35,488 shares, Supreme Ventures concluded trading 28 cents higher at $11.98, with 92,495 stock units, Victoria Mutual Investments finished at $4.10, with 215,060 units and Wisynco Group gained 54 cents to $11.99, with 4,146,449 shares. In the main market preference segment, Jamaica Money Market 7.5% traded at $2, with 160,230 stock units, JMMB Group 7.5% closed at $1.17, with 9,651 shares, 138 Student Living ended at $6.15, with 1,000 shares, Proven Investments climbed 85 cents to a 52 weeks’ high of $5.90, with 100 units traded.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “Big surge in JSE Main market – Wednesday.”
Trinidad stocks decline again
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Wednesday with trading in 16 securities against 14 on Tuesday, with 4 stocks advancing, 4 declining and 8 remaining unchanged.
At close, the Composite Index lost 0.50 points to 1,272.53, the All T&T Index fell 0.99 points to 1,703.77, while Cross Listed Index closed unchanged at 113.53.
Market activity ended with 334,468 shares with a value of $9,456,041 traded, compared to 194,026 shares with a value of $3,847,017 on Tuesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
Gains| Agostini’s gained 1 cent to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $20.76, with 200 shares trading, Angostura Holdings gained 70.00 cents and ended at $15.70, with 80 stock units changing hands, Bourse Brazil finished trading with a gain of 30 cents at a 52 weeks’ high of $8.40, with 500 stock units changing hands and Guardian Holdings closed with an increase of 25 cents, to finish at $17.25, trading 93,718 shares.
Losses| Clico Investments fell by 40 cents and close at $20.50, with 7,654 units, Massy Holdings shares fell 1 cent and finished at $47.49, with 102 stock units changing hands, Prestige Holdings fell 20 cents and finished at $10.30, trading 450 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL fell $1.01 and close at $26.54, with 96,007 units.
Firm Traded| Ansa Merchant Bank closed at $40, trading 2,434 shares trading, First Citizens finished at $32.01, trading 150 shares trading, National Enterprises close at $9.67, with 6,168 units, NCB Financial Group finished at $6.60, trading 30,700 shares trading, Republic Financial Holdings ended at $101.50, with 41,534 stock units changing hands. Sagicor Financial finished at $7.90, with 5,145 units, Trinidad Cement ended at $3.75, trading 46,495 shares trading and West Indian Tobacco concluded trading at $88.51, with 3,131 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.