The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange recorded gains in the major indices but declining prices out weighted rising ones on Friday, as the indices flirted with record highs, failing to hold onto the strong morning gains to close with much smaller gains.
Main market activity ended with 27 securities changing hands, with just 6 securities rising, 12 falling, 9 trading firm on Thursday. Trading closed with 6,404,825 units valued at $87,957,828.
At the close of trading, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index jumped 2,729.22 points to 321,733.98and the JSE Index shot up by 2,486.63 points to 293,136.03.
In main market activity, Barita Investments closed 10 cents higher at $8.10, with 3,301 shares, Berger Paints ended with a loss of 50 cents at $17, with 702 stock units, Carreras finished with a loss of 5 cents at $10.90, with 798,192 shares, Caribbean Cement settled at $35, with 12,087 shares, Ciboney Group ended trading at $0.11, with 1,362,000 shares. Grace Kennedy traded at $44.80, with 12,580 stock units, Jamaica Broilers finished trading at $19, with 52,115 units, Jamaica Producers closed at $15, with 1,101,566 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange ended at $6.50, with 15,405 shares. JMMB Group concluded trading with a loss of 45 cents at $26, with 10,967 shares, Kingston Wharves settled $1.38 higher at $40, with 15,882 units, Mayberry Investments ended trading with a loss of 35 cents at $5, with 4,470 shares, NCB Financial Group traded with a loss of 50 cents at $99, with 18,860 shares. 1834 Investments lost 2 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $1.10, with 289,200 shares, 138 Student Living concluded trading 10 cents higher at $5.50, with 1,500 shares, PanJam Investment ended with a loss of 95 cents at $41, with 9,835 units, Pulse Investments finished at $1.80, with 198,900 shares, Radio Jamaica settled with a loss of 3 cents at $1.05, with 15,118 shares. Sagicor Group ended trading with a loss of 40 cents at $36.10, with 726,317 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended trading with a loss of 1.99 cents at $15, with 170,860 shares, Salada Foods traded at $12.05, with 7,500 units, Scotia Group finished trading $2 higher at $54, with 348,524 shares, Seprod concluded trading with a loss of $1.99 at $30.01, with 900 stock units. Supreme Ventures closed 5 cents higher at $11.90, with 236,420 stock units, Victoria Mutual Investments gained 2 cents to end at $4.60, with 570,504 units, Wisynco Group settled with a loss of 17 cents at $10.55, with 253,420 shares and in the main market preference segment, JMMB Group 7.5% closed at $1.02, with 167,700 shares, changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “Scotia pushes JSE to intraday record high – Friday.”
4 up 2 down on TTSE on Friday
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Thursday ended with 16 securities trading the number as on Thursday. The market closed with 200,883 shares valued at $1,445,272 trading, compared to 501,264 shares valued at $7,417,872 on Thursday.
The market closed with the prices of 4 stocks rising, 2 declining and 10 remaining unchanged. At close, the Composite Index fell 41 points on Friday to 1,267.39, the All T&T Index closed with a fall 0.07 points to 1,694.71, while the Cross Listed Index lost 0.10 points to close at 113.38.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, on Friday, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 8 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Gains| First Citizens added 4 cents and closed at $32.20, trading 627 shares, Grace Kennedy price increased 1 cent and completed trading at $3.35, with 61,893 units, Scotiabank rose 5 cents and settled at $62.01, trading 546 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed with a gain of 14 cents at $27.65, trading 2,961 shares.
Losses| Guardian Holdings fell 15 cents and settled at $15.50, trading 1,599 shares and National Flour lost 1 cent and closed at $1.82, trading 8,176 shares. Firm Traded| Ansa Merchant closed at $40, trading 503 shares, Clico Investments completed trading at $20.10, with 7,597 units, First Caribbean International Bank settled at $9.28, trading 5,823 shares, JMMB Group ended at $2, with 10,100 stock units changing hands LJ Williams B share concluded market activity at 75 cents, trading 20,000 shares. Massy Holdings ended at $47.50, with 3,301 stock units changing hands Prestige Holdings settled at $10.01, trading 1,300 shares, Sagicor Financial ended at $7.85, with 75,657 units, Trinidad Cement closed at $3.01, with 400 stock units changing hands and West Indian Tobacco settled at $88.50, trading 400 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
3 up 3 down on TTSE on Thursday
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Thursday ended with 16 securities trading up from 19 on Wednesday. The market closed with 501,264 shares valued at $7,417,872 trading, compared to 537,535 shares valued at $2,193,469 on Wednesday.
The market closed with the prices of 3 stocks rising, 3 declining and 10 remaining unchanged. At close, the Composite Index gained 1.41 points on Thursday to 1,267.80, the All T&T Index closed with a fall 3.76 points to 1,694.78, while the Cross Listed Index rose 0.14 points to close at 113.48.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, on Thursday, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Gains| First Citizens concluded trading and rose 1 cent and ended at $32.16, trading 9,860 shares, NCB Financial Group added 4 cents and closed at $6.57, trading 48,363 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL increased 1 cent to end at $27.51, with 5,263 shares changing hands.
Losses| Grace Kennedy closed with a loss of 1 cent at $3.34, with 4,000 units traded, Trinidad Cement closed down 49 cents and completed trading at a 52 weeks’ low of $3.01, with 4,000 stock units changing hands and West Indian Tobacco shed 5 cents and concluded trading at $88.50, with 56,757 shares.
Firm Traded| Ansa Merchant concluded trading at $40, in exchanging 460 shares, Clico Investments settled at $20.10, with 1,200 units, JMMB Group completed market activity at $2, with 306,004 stock units changing hands, LJ Williams B share ended at 75 cents, trading 5,000 units, Massy Holdings closed at $47.50, exchanging 2,255 stock units. One Caribbean Media completed trading at $12.47, with 1,000 stock units changing hands, Point Lisas settled at $3.81, with 757 units, Republic Financial Holdings ended trading at $101.52, with 3,512 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Financial settled at $7.85, with 51,279 units and Unilever Caribbean ended at $30, with 1,554 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
TTSE index close down on Wednesday
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Wednesday ended with 19 securities trading up from 16 on Tuesday. The market closed with 537,535 shares valued at $2,193,469 trading, compared to 588,618 shares valued at $6,075,902 on Tuesday.
The market closed with the prices of 5 stocks rising, 5 declining and 9 remaining unchanged. At close, the Composite Index fell 2.50 points on Wednesday to 1,269.21, the All T&T Index closed with a fall 3.72 points to 1,698.54, while the Cross Listed Index losing 0.17 points to close at 113.34.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, on Wednesday, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Gains| Angostura Holdings rose 3 cents and ended at $15.70, with 700 stock units changing hands, Ansa Mcal gained $1 to end at $61, with 218 units trading, Clico Investments closed with a gain of 9 cents at $20.10, with 5,230 units, Republic Financial Holdings gained 1 cent and ended at $101.52, with 1,445 stock units changing hands and Unilever Caribbean finished trading with 50 cents and completed at $30, with 334 units changing hands.
Losses| Calypso Marco Index Fund fell 92 cents in trading just 20 units to close at 52 weeks’ low of $20.48, First Caribbean International Bank shed 2 cents and settled at $9.28, trading 120 shares, First Citizens lost 5 cents and concluded at $32.15, trading 2,010 shares, Guardian Holdings ended trading 85 cents lower and settled at $15.65, trading 1,000 shares and One Caribbean Media ended trading with a loss of 1 cent to a 52 weeks’ low of $12.47, with 10,000 stock units changing hands.
Firm Traded| Grace Kennedy completed trading at $3.35, with 260,847 units, JMMB Group ended at $2, with 227,835 stock units changing hands, Massy Holdings ended at $47.50, with 2,344 stock units changing hands, National Flour settled at $1.83, trading 364 shares, NCB Financial Group concluded at $6.53, trading 41 shares. Point Lisas completed market activity at $3.81, with 1,090 units, Sagicor Financial closed trading at $7.85, with 21,683 units, Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed at $27.50, after trading 1,899 shares and West Indian Tobacco closed at $88.55, trading 375 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
5 stocks up 2 down on TTSE – Tuesday
Market activity picked up on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Tuesday with 16 securities trading from just 11 on Monday. The market closed with 588,618 shares valued at $3,726,394 trading, compared to 814,429 shares valued at $6,075,902 on Friday.
The market closed with the prices of 5 stocks rising, 2 declining and 9 remaining unchanged. At close, the Composite Index fell 0.35 points on Tuesday to 1,271.71, the All T&T Index closed with a rise of 1.47 points to 1,702.26, while the Cross Listed Index losing 0.11 points to close at 113.51.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, on Tuesday, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Gains| First Citizens closed with a gain of 9 cents at a 52 weeks’ high of $32.20, trading 2,500 shares, Massy Holdings gained 25 cents and ended at $47.50, with 178 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Financial finished trading with a rise of 2 cents to $7.85, with 2,500 units, Scotiabank closed with an increase of 6 cents and settled at $61.96, trading 326 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL ended trading, rising 22 cents to end at $27.50, trading 5,452 shares.
Losses| National Flour shares fell 3 cents and settled at $1.83, trading 291 shares and NCB Financial Group closed with a loss of 2 cents at $6.53, trading 174,596 shares.
Firm Traded| Ansa Mcal completed at $60, with 2,530 units, Ansa Merchant settled at $40, trading 524 shares, Clico Investments completed at $20.01, with 19,080 units, First Caribbean International Bank settled at $9.30, trading 96,427 shares, Grace Kennedy completed at $3.35, with 32,626 units. JMMB Group ended at $2, with 227,450 stock units changing hands, National Enterprises completed at $9.65, with 3,000 units, One Caribbean Media ended at $12.48, with 20,981 stock units changing hands and Point Lisas completed at $3.81, with 157 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
VM Investments dominates JSE’s trading
Victoria Mutual Investments dominated trading on the Main Market activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday, accounted for 60.4 percent of total shares traded and closed at a record high of $4.85.
Market activity on Monday fell well below that on Friday but the market indices climbed much higher even as advancing stocks just edged out declining ones. The main market ended with 26 securities changing hands, ending with 10 securities rising, 8 falling, 8 trading firm. The JSE All Jamaican Composite Index surged 2,130.17 points to 320,257.64 and the JSE Index adding 1,940.83 points to 291,790.92.
Trading ended with 4,116,289 units valued at $49,819,783 changing hands, versus 115,025,659 units valued at $1,171,809,500 on Friday.
In main market activity, Barita Investments closed at $7.50, with 10,345 shares traded, Berger Paints ended 7 cents higher at $19.07, with 63,799 stock units, Carreras finished at $11, with 18,161 shares, Caribbean Cement settled with a loss of 4 cents at $33.05, with 9,961 shares, Ciboney Group ended trading 3 cents higher at 10 cents, with 35,000 shares. Grace Kennedy traded with a loss of $2 at $44, with 4,300 stock units, Jamaica Broilers finished trading with a loss of 12 cents at $18.88, with 11,324 units, Jamaica Producers closed at $15, with 39,031 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange ended 15 cents higher at $6.70, with 2,250 units changing hands. JMMB Group concluded trading with a loss of $1 at $25, with 288,866 shares, Kingston Properties finished at $6.65, with 680 stock units, Kingston Wharves settled with a loss of $2.25 at $39.75, with 298,752 units, Mayberry Investments ended trading 41 cents higher at $5.41, with 1,450 shares. NCB Financial Group traded with a loss of 30 cents at $99.20, with 66,155 shares, PanJam Investment ended at $41.50, with 14,567 units, Pulse Investments finished with a loss of 7 cents at $1.78, with 2,500 shares, Sagicor Group ended trading 40 cents higher at $37.50, with 32,719 stock units. Scotia Group finished trading 88 cents higher at $50.90, with 1,240 shares, Sterling Investments ended $1 higher to $14, with 4,300 shares, Supreme Ventures concluded trading with a loss of 45 cents at $11.50, with 159,366 stock units, Victoria Mutual Investments finished 40 cents higher at a new high of $4.85, with 2,484,967 units. Wisynco Group settled 25 cents higher at $10.50, with 525,358 shares and Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended trading at $17, with 37,978 shares. In the main market preference segment, Jamaica Money Market 7.5% traded at $1.95, with 1,220 stock units, JMMB Group 7.5% closed at 99 cents, with 1,000 shares, Proven Investments settled 10 cents higher at $6, with 1,000 units, changing hands.
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 sharply higher – Monday.”