Trading picked up on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market ended on Wednesday, following the long Christmas holiday break and closed with the volume of stocks changing hands rising 10,805 percent valued 1,994 percent more than on last week Friday and resulted in the trading of eight securities, similar to that on Friday and closed with four rising, three declining and one ending unchanged.
The JSE US Denominated Equities Index gained 5.46 points to end at 258.04.
A total of 966,219 shares were traded for US$14,629 compared with 8,860 units at US$699 on Thursday. Trading averaged 120,777 shares at US$1,829 versus 1,108 units at US$87 last Friday, with the month to date average of 36,460 units at US$1,331 compared to 31,148 shares at US$1,300 on the previous trading day. November ended with an average of 33,854 units for US$3,351.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 8.6. The PE ratio uses ICInsider. com earnings forecasts for companies with financial years ending between November and August 2023.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows one stock ended with a bid higher than the last selling price and one with a lower offer.
At the close, Productivity Business Solutions rose 12.86 cents to close at US$2.25 with investors transferring 104 stocks. Proven Investments climbed 0.07 of a cent to end at 18.57 US cents, with 315 units crossing the exchange, Sterling Investments gained 0.18 of a cent in closing at 2.18 US cents with an exchange of 300 shares, Sygnus Credit Investments USD share shed 0.01 of a cent to end at 9.41 US cents after trading 52,922 units and Transjamaican Highway slipped 0.02 of a cent to 0.97 of one US cents with 911,831 shares crossing the market.
In the preference segment, Equityline Mortgage Investment preference share ended at US$1.67 in an exchange of one share, JMMB Group 6% fell 2 cents to close at US$1.05 as investors exchanged 731 stocks and Productivity Business 6% lost 95 cents to end at US$11.05 after 15 shares crossed the market.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.